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Show Wherein We May Glory. Wo are often accusod by othor nv tlons of being a boastful pooplo. In reality wo aro modest. We Bay little about giving to thd world a rifle as a military weapon, or conferring on humanity hu-manity the boon of anesthesia, or revolutionizing rev-olutionizing naval architecture, or producing pro-ducing tho cotton gin, tho sowing machine, ma-chine, tho telegraph and tho telephone; tele-phone; but wo might as well carry our heads a llttlo higher when wo rolled ro-lled that wo gavo to all tho nations of tho earth that noble Ideal of an educated ed-ucated womanhood, and not only pointed but led tho way toward tho realization of It. The exercises at Mount Holyoke did not merely colobrato the seventy-fifth seventy-fifth birthday of a woman's collego; they commemorated tho birth of nn Idea. Youth's Companion. |