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...college friends who have had every advantage of education and surroundings, and yet have gone to the bad? And should one expect better things of the Indian? Can a settlement of Indians be very vicious where it is perfectly safe for a single woman to live alone and teach, far away from white friends or acquaintances...
...degrees with distinction; but it also points to a tendency in college students to devote their energies less to specializing than to general education. The President states that the Faculty are in doubt about the expediency of men trying for honors, except in cases where such students intend to teach...
...diminishes relatively to the number of students. The natural inference is that very few students wish to specialize, or that the requirements for honors are unreasonable. Even in the Faculty there are two opinions as to the advisability of seeking honors except by young men who intend to teach...
...great truth of the old vision is that the secret of a righteous life is to stand up. We teach our children to stand instead of leaning and lolling about, not only because it looks better to stand unsupported but because the habit carries a moral lesson. The first thing a recruit is taught to do is to stand straigt, no for looks but because the act of so standing conveys the idea of discipline. And for centuries the word in our language which is the typical expression fro absolute honesty has been uprightness...
...Graham's Mistake" is a light story of a foolish youth who, however, manages to teach a friend a very salutary precept...