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Show If He Wore Youn Again. Prof o&sor L. P. Roberts is director oi the college of agriculture in Cornell -universitj-. He is a gentleman of -wide knowledge, full of enthusiasm, and a "self made man," as it is called. Professor Pro-fessor Roberts has been asked what ho would do if he were young again. Here we some of the things ho mentions, in The Rural New Yorker, that he would do if he wire young again. They are well worth the attention of those who are young still: I would visit the school committee to see if they would not hire a teacher who would conduct me through the arithmetic successfully in two rears instead seven; one who had lost the art of spending fifteen -cars iu imperfectly teaching now to form twenty-six simple characters. If I were a youth just entering my teens I would want a teacher who had both inspiration and aspiration; as-piration; one, in fact, who knew more than I did, so that I might be taught what to eat and how to eat; how to work and -when to play; how to grow rtrong and beautiful; how to become good anil true, and how and to whom to give thanks. Then I should want explained to me in the most simple language the uses, beauty and pleasures of kuowl-ed kuowl-ed fo that while giving thanks for the blessings bless-ings enjoyed, a holy zeal, a consuming desire for knowledge would possess nie. I should want a teacher who could point out the road, who knew of the schools of higher training, their specialties, their character and quality. I would divide my timo first into two parts, one for-rest and sleep and ods for activity, and these two parts should not exchange beds or bunk together. to-gether. The hours of activity would be devoted to work, to getting strong and beautiful, to acquiring ac-quiring knowledge and to meditation. As the hardest thing a young person has to do is to "keep still" and the easiest is to put forth muscular effort, I should be careful not to work too long or hard, in order that vitality might be left for the harder effort of thinking. I would try to get such training and understanding understand-ing that 1 could work for myself profitably; that is, I would avoid being so poorly equipped that I would be compelled to employ some one else to direct my labor, lie getting the lion"6 share, 1 getting get-ting what was left. I would get at least two strings to my bow, so that if the world had no 'long felt want" which my theoretical knowledge could fill, I could make a washboard, a shoe or an apple barrel. I would inspect carefully many of the open doors which are labeled "Education;" having found the one best suited to my desires, I would enter and not come forth till I could do several sev-eral things well enough to attract attention, and I would "kick" if anybody thrust me into the wrong door. |