Show WHAT WOMEN HAVE DONE FOR MEN AIEN Miss Helen Gladstone in an article on admission of women to the Cambridge degrees calls attention to the fact that no fewer than six Cambridge colleges were founded by women for men men Clara Clara by Elizabeth de Burgh Countess of Pembroke by Marie de St. St Paul Countess of Pembroke Queens Queen's by Queen Margaret of Anjou Christs Christ's and St. St Johns John's by Lady Margaret l Coun Coun- fi tess of Richmond who also founded founded-a a 3 divinity professorship and Sidney Sussex by by- byL L Lady dy Francis Sidney Countess of of Sussex Ex Que Queen n Victoria never never permits permits' th the smallest favor done in her behalf to go When theatrical representations representations t are given privately for her pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure not only upon the leading actors actors' or or singers jew jeweled led charms and brooches are are bestowed but to every hum humble ble scene s shifter shifter shift shift- ift- ift er and dresser a tiny leather box is given This is an exact imitation of a jewel case case as asand and is stamped with the royal arms i in gilt but hut inside the recipients find a little 1 pile of perfectly new gold coins with ith a a a strip of paper bearing her Majesty's thanks for their labors ExIn Ex Ex In the Stentor published by Lake Professor Atkins says Science training should have haye as its its aim the building of self-knowledge self of a aright aright aright right confidence e. e in ones one's self ones one's w work rk and results and power to select the truth truth the the essentials of things things and and most important of all a deep seated conception conception conception concep concep- tion of the importance above all of truth truth- The prison will remain for the defaulter exile for the absconder land and the gallows for the despoiler until there is wrought into the mental fibre of the individual and the nation the st conception of this the necessity of absolute truthfulness between man and his soul No other department of a college course it seems to me can better bette or as as- aswell well develop these essentials s of Christian character The student is s brought face to face with the problem em he is thrown upon his own resources for its solution and upon his honor for its correctness He is taught the necessity for correct judgment to select bala balance ce weigh He grasps the pregnant fact that there is no answer to his problem that it cannot II come come out other than right that right that he stands as the creator of f circumstance and the interpreter of the results and that he will fail or succeed in the measure that he skillfully honestly honestly hony hon hon- estly y and truthfully creates and interprets He must not discard this result because II it it is wrong nor accept this because II Each demands equal attention attention atten atten- f it it is right t tion on from him for each is equally true and to be interpreted since each arose from his arrangement of circumstance and as he proceeds he builds up beneath his f feet et a causeway of confidence in his ability to discriminate to select the truth He learns his limitations and FJ moral needs He has impressed upon himself again and again the absolute i futility of any even the slightest attempt 1 of self deceit for all such attempts i vitiate in advance that for which he is f searching His Hi confidence expands his moral nature develops his integrity is those det developed developed de de- strengthened those qualities are t upon which he can rely in the crisis which will confront him demanding demanding demanding demand demand- ing action and moral choice t Nor should a proper study of it its laws and mysteries lessen his reverence reverence for forthe forthe the Creator and Ruler of the Nature he studies On the contrary he should learn to to correctly place and estimate himself and his relations s to the cycle of life of K which he is a part There are two rather good stor stories es told f of the poet Bryant At one onetime time he was wasti was ti the editor of the New York Post and was II 1 always careful that young poets should receive an encouraging notice in his paper Japer A little book of utterly worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less poems was sent in one day and after after after af af- ter a vain att attempt to find anything to praise he handed the book to an associate associate associate asso asso- editor with the remark you might say that the type is good and the binding very pretty On another occasion a young oung man r. r handed him some verses asking if they conveyed the idea of poetry at all Bryant assured him that there was sor something some something some some- thing in every line that conveyed the I idea for every every line began with a capital J letter J 4 |