| Show ECONOMY CARRIED TOO FAR old mans thrift that led him into ridiculous action president J G schurman of cornell was discussing elective college courses ot which in tho freshman and sophomore years he disapproves A freshman of 16 or 17 said pros ident schurman Is too young to choose for himself the courses best for him his mind Is not mature enough it will make mistakes in its immaturity its proneness to error it Is like the mind ot an old man in my native freetown he 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 bad lost tour wives and desired to erect for each a headstone with an inscription commemorative of her wifely virtues but inscriptions he found were very expensive ho economized in this wayt he had 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 itono stono in the center of the lot and under each hand were the words for epitaph see large stone |
