THE. HESPERIAN STUDENT.
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the property of the students. It purposes to be the
exponent of your ideas, the firm advocate of your prin
ciples and the faithful defender of your rights and pri
vileges. Hut the Studknt cannot live' without your
.support. The only way the paper can be made a
success is through the the cooperative aid of all the
students new and old. Do not depend entirely upon
the editors, but come forward and put your shoulder
to the wheel.
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Wmu-: visiting some of the rural districts during
the summer we took occasion to converse with some
of the farmers in regard to sending their sons and
daughters to college. We did not receive, however,
very favorable replies. Almost the universal answer
was "Costs too much;" " 'Twon't pay." With some
this may be true, but many, it is feared, too greatly
., j underestimate the worth of a few years schooling.
, Only those who have experienced the pleasures of an
education are fitted to judge of its value, while the
majority of our farmers are comparatively illiterate
men. It may indeed be impossible for the young men
and women to leave the farm for a continuous six
years course, but let them come if only for one winter.
They will be benefitted thereby and go home in the
spring to work with better zeal. "Mother Earth"
promises bountiful harvests this year, and after the
young folks have worked hard gathering them in and
attending to the other duties of the farm let them have
their reward by spending the winter at school. Some
fathers say that it will only make them dissatisfied
with their farm life, that they will be disconted to go
back to work, and moreover the long period of
inactivity will render them physically unfit for the
work to which they have been accustomed. With
some this may be the case ; but we have it from those
who have had experience that they can go right from
school and pitch into as hard work as any of the
farm hands. They will work with a better spirit if
1 they think they will be repaid by the winters schooling.
flm As to the worth of an education, it is not to be
estimated in money. While it does not give a man
qualities that he did not possess before, it arouses and
develops those which without an education might
forever lie dormant. Every man is possessed of
certain qualities, to develop which to the utmost of
his ability, is a duty he owes to himself and to his
fellow men. According as a man makes use of his
talents to promote the interests of mankind will he be
held accountable to his Creator. Although a few men
rise to eminence with but little education, yet for the
majority the best road to success is through the halls
of the college. The educated man lives in a different
world from the illitdmte. There is positive enjoy
ment in the conscious possession of knowledge. It
advancement and leads him to consider interests
other than his own. It brings him to the conscious
ness that man is something more than an animal whose
only aim is the gratification of his appetites.
No, the value ofan education is not to be estimated
in dollars and cents. Its real worth can only be
appreciated by those who have experienced it. Accept
their testimony and send the boys to school; let them
taste a little of city life, and then when they come to
visit their city cousins there will be no necessity of
introducing them as "our country cousins," by way
of apology. As for the girls, their profit will be as
great as that of the boys. They will make just as
good butter and cheese and take hold of their other
work with more interest.
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Ci.OVD-LAXl).
Sou you j tin cIoihI?
I've watchud It half this sitimiior nfloruoon
Fold mm unfold
While drifting eastward, but too mioii.
Its creamy inns
Is moved and moul.Ud by the wind's embrace.
And the hot sun
Hi, h kissed to Mushes its Incoiis'aut face.
A mystic Mile
O'ershudoucd by snow momitnins comes "o view,
Krom which n road
Skirts 'round the cloud isle of this ocean blue.
That linth may lead
To hidden slopes whereon a god-queen lice,
Whoso laughing girls
Their white limbs liuthe in cloud mists of the skies.
Ob, intuit I be
A shy companion of their sports and mirih,
To dash from mind
All heart pains and dull cares of this earth!
Gaiinkt.
CLASSICAL OR NON-CLASSIOAL.
Translation from any foicign tongue into our own is im
porlant mid usolul for (lie discipline il gives the mind!
And no languages, as is gcnciallj admitted, task the mind
so severely in litis respect us Latin and Greek
The study of tliu.su languages is also important for tltc
ease and accuracy which is acquired in Hie oxpicssion of
our own tongue- A very largo pir cent of the English
comes directly or indirectly from the Latin and Greek
and the most perfect knowledge of it and lite greatest fa
cility in its expression manifestly cannot he attained with
out ti knowledge ol these origiuul tongues. But were
none of our words derived from these languages the trans
lation oT the thoughts of those ancients into our language
would be one of the very best exercises lor the mini and
would certainly increase one's knowledge of English.
Again, the study of the classics brings one in contact
with the masterpieces of antiquity, some ol tho grandest
specimens of fine writing the world has overseen. Many
of their beauties, among others the construction of senten
ccs and differences of idiom, cannot, be seen in mere translations.
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