Show ECONOMY CARRIED TOO FAR I 1 old man thrift that led him into ridiculous action president J G schurman of corr ell was discussing elective coll ge courses of which in the freshman and sophomore years he disapproves A freshman of 16 or 17 said president schurman la too young to choose for himself the courses best tor him his mind Is not matura enough it will make mistakes in its immaturity its proneness to error it Is like the mind of an old man in my native freetown lie though old was mentally undeveloped and saw nothing wrong or ridiculous in a piece of economy that he put in practice in the cemetery the old man had lost tour wives and desired to erect tor each a head stone with an inscription com memora alve of her wifely virtues but inscriptions he found were very expensive he economized in this way he bad the christian name of each wife cut on a small stone above her grave emma mary hester edith under each name a hand pointed to a large stone in the cen ter of the lot and under each hand were the words for epitaph see large stone |