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obtained are only a mean toward his broader growth . A writer ha r cently aid: "What a fool a school girl i with her botany under her arm and no applicati n f it to the practical work of making the plant grow in th garden." Th que Li n i oft n asked, "'\Yhy is it that tho who take high college honor ar often never h ard of again ? It i ea ily answered; they thought that their ta ks were don wh n all contained b tween the covers of a text book had be n l arned. College work is not a proce s of filling the mind with bald fact , but rather a period wherein the latent talent are called forth and developed. 'l' he training which only fill the mind doe not ducate in the true en e of the word. It fail to draw out the individual characteri tic . It i lik the and tone which lies in lime water, it ize i continually incr a ing by d epo it of lime; but thi i not true growth. The plant take in water, the product of the oil and sun hine , and give them back in the form of branch, leaf, blo om and fruit. The chool girl who tudies geometry but fail to learn order and method about her daily task , or how to arrange the furniture of a room more arti tically, ha learn d but a mall part of the theorem, even if the professor write ten after her name. The boy who doe not find the history of the pa t a mirror of the problem of today, who doe not learn tact in managing others, will have little to how for hi hour of work , when ten year afterward he ha forgotten the date of the King of England. The college girl who goe to make her home in the country town with the idea that the people need enlightenment and she i to be the source, will make her elf unpopular and unhappy. he will find the people about her who have never tudied a word of Greek or a line of Latin have much knowledge of practical value which was not in her college course, and it will be to her advantage to learn all he can from them rather than try to teach them from her mall store. The broadly educated man is uch because he realizes that he can learn something from every per on he meet . Let us have the broad foundation of a Chri tian education, but do not put on it the Arab' tent that may be silently folded in a night and di:;appear in an oriental dream. 41