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...This result is no doubt due in part to the fact that the student who enters young is on the average a brighter, more industrious, more serious boy than one who completes his school days at a later age. But there is also something in taking each part of the educational process at the appropriate time. Many a student enters older than is wise and then strives to go through his college course in three years, thereby substituting a year in school for one in college, although for the development and maturing of his capacity the latter...
...Professor Kittredge at Sanders Theatre on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port. He began life with scarcely any schooling; was apprenticed to his trade as a boy, and continued in it until his death at the age of 84; living, unmarried, in rooms above his shop, over whose door a carved lamb was set, not to suggest his inclination to fleece, but to indicate his trade in sheepskins...
...real need is not merely for men but men who have done things. The professions most frequently ridiculed are the very ones which need the best material, and school teaching is no exception. Those who teach because they can do nothing else, fall notoriously in that, as every school boy knows. Only too often, however, necessity leaves to them the payment of "the eternal debt of age to youth--education...
...proposal is well worth careful consideration. There will be scoffers, of course, to ask where two hundred American parents can be found with the means or inclination to let their sons spend a year alone in a European school, or whether Dr. Drury considers one American boy the equivalent of five French. But after pushing aside such objections, there remains the one serious criticism: How much can boys of the high school senior or preparatory school sixth form age benefit by a year in an institution whose traditions, institutions and in most cases whose language is foreign to them...
This British boy, scarce 20, had been in the thick of the fight, twice wounded, since 1914. Now, late in 1919, he was helping to guard helpless women and children from massacre in Asia Minor...