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INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 
these are the portions of the week when your besetting sins 
require the most supervision and the greatest amount of 
struggling against. Set aside in your evenings special hours 
for private study, and allow no ordinary circumstances to 
otherwise appropriate them ; on these occasions review what 
has been acquired during the day, and study such books as 
your teachers have suggested to you. Lose no time or valu¬ 
able opportunities; once lost they never can he recalled; 
therefore seek to fill every hour with such employment as 
you may review with satisfaction. As Partridge expresses 
it:— 
Let duty make 
Of every day a pleasant yesterday, 
Unblushing, unaccusing/’ 
Your Sabbath should be a day of rest. The student who 
properly employs the six days can well afibrd to enjoy the 
rest of the seventh. Duly reverence this day, and neglect 
not to observe its solemn obligations. 
Some of you from the foregoing remarks may think that I 
would advise you to avoid pleasure during the time you are a 
student; not so; I contend that the mind to be in good tone 
must be subjected to variety of occupation. I ask you not to 
renounce your pleasure, rather to enjoy it, but let it be in 
safety. Love of pleasure, natural to every period of man’s 
life, glows with ardour at your age; but beware of the 
results of intemperate indulgence in it; mark you, such 
misuse of pleasure degrades honour, and blasts the opening 
prospects of all human happiness. I can now vividly recall 
to mind the fates of more than one young man whose days 
broke brightly, and who were formed for running a fair course 
in life midst public esteem, hut who in the beginning of their 
course sacrificed all at the shrine of irregular pleasure, and 
who have since died ignoble deaths, or have sunk to lowest 
depths of insignificance and contempt. By all means seek 
recreation, but let it be healthful, innocent, and instructive. 
In other words, avail yourselves of opportunities that may 
offer for amusement, hut have a care that it he of such a 
character as will invigorate and refresh the intellect. Within 
these hounds pleasure is lawful, without them it becomes 
criminal because it is ruinous. 
In the performance of your duties help each other; and 
this you may do, without trouble to yourselves, more than 
appears at first sight. If you see your fellow student pur¬ 
suing a course fraught with danger, gently but not reprov- 
warn him of his error, and endeavour to win him to a 
