EDITORIAL 
163 
plus” — really means something. It 
harmonizes well with the idea of The 
Agassiz Association that real education 
consists in thinking out one’s own prob- 
lems and responsibilities. The girl is 
assisted by others as is a Member of 
The Agassiz Association but not ma- 
chinelike, and does not merely follow 
instructions and formulae devised by 
others. We take the following quota- 
tion from the school announcement : 
“A girl’s sense of woman’s responsi- 
bility to laws, her recognition of wo- 
man’s relation to current events, her 
appreciation of things that make her 
think, not simply remember, are best 
evidences of that costly human attain- 
ment — a girl’s education. 
“A good education involves great 
expenditure of energy ; it takes all the 
time, strength, and self-denial one is 
capable of giving. \ 7 icarious informa- 
tion can never save from fatal ignor- 
ance. Knowledge must be one’s own, 
if it shall save the day when unexpected 
tests come.” 
The editor of this magazine has vis- 
ited the school and the summer camp. 
Last spring a Chapter of The AA was 
formed from which we shall expect 
good things. The environment is ideal 
for a seashore camp and the manage- 
ment is peculiarly effective. We cor- 
dially recommend Sea Pines at Brew- 
ster, Massachusetts, as a good school 
and a good camp. 
He who has learned to love an art or 
science has wisely laid up riches against 
the day of riches ; if prosperity come, he 
will not enter poor into his inheritance : 
he will not slumber and forget himself 
in the lap of money, or spend his hours 
in counting idle treasures, hut be up 
and briskly doing; he will have the 
true alchemic touch, which is not that 
of Midas, but which transmutes dead 
money into living delight and satisfac- 
tion. — Robert Louis Stevenson. 
Thus, the older a man is, the more 
he must depend upon his own hygienic 
sagacity for health and long life. The 
lives of almost all the centenarians I 
could find have shown that they owe 
their longevity far more to their own 
insight than to medical care; and very 
likely there is a far greater individual 
difference of needs than medicine re- 
cognizes as yet. — “The Atlantic 
Monthly.” 
Now Let Us Really Live. 
The war and the election are over 
and we have Woman Suffrage and Pro- 
hibition. 
What an immense amount of time 
and expense has been put into these 
causes which after all are not ends in 
themselves but ways and means to 
what the advocates regard as a higher 
and better plane of living and of civil- 
ization. 
Let us give a little more attention 
to education. Let us really enjoy the 
better America for which we have 
worked and struggled. 
Isn’t it strange that so much time 
and effort are devoted to getting ready 
to live? As one looks back over 
progressing civilization one is aston- 
ished to perceive how much time has 
been devoted to improving the situa- 
tion or the earth as a place of resi- 
dence and a place of association with 
one’s fellow beings. We wonder if 
these problems of housing, food and 
social conditions will ever be settled. 
Some of them have been settled and it 
does seem as if in the future not so 
many great adjustments will be neces- 
sary. 
One fact is plain. We are here on 
this beautiful earth with a multiplicity 
of interests and surroundings. We are 
to stay here at the longest for only a 
few decades. Let us devote more 
thought, energy and time to the appre- 
ciation of our environment. 
Would it not be strange for a party 
to visit Rome or Egypt or the Holy 
Land and devote all the time or ninety- 
nine per cent of it to the ways and 
means of travel, to the settling of dis- 
putes with other members of the com- 
pany, to arguing about the past and 
the future, to talking long and loud 
about a thousand and one minor mat- 
ters, and devoting a small per cent to 
the real seeing and enjoying of Rome, 
Egypt and the Holy Land ? We now 
are in Rome, Egypt and the Holy Land 
but is not our party neglecting the 
real purpose of our visit? We are not 
an imaginative party traveling to imag- 
inary resorts of imaginary interest. 
“As we journey through life let us 
live by the way.” 
“Life is real, life is earnest.” 
