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Show Educated Men Spare Themselves Them-selves m Crucial Moments By tlio Rov. Dr. W. Mcrlo Smith. OTJITCH3U I1E greatest gift that ll?o offers Is education, and It Implies n cor-tHTUUnU cor-tHTUUnU responding tcsnonslhllitj. For one who has such nn ndvntitugo VVJtJrr the gicnlest temptation Is not Immorality, nor nuysfurm of mn-Utf mn-Utf tTCT tcrlnllsm-tt Is tho declining of responsibility. The question Is y.Li J 22 often naked whether or not n university education pays", In tbo iin.SS ordinary sense of tho word. President .Ionian nays that It does, VW'iTItJ'CJa ,JUt' 0M llu otIln' ,u,uu"' President Wheeler nnd others cay that It u u la nt least doubtful. Moro men fall from want of force than from want of Judgment, nnd It would appear that education often tends to reduce rnthcr than to itdd to n man's forcefulness. Thu danger Is that oue has learned to spate li!ni&elf when crucial moments come. . It Is a fact that feme of tho characteristics of thu rotten life of decadent Home nro to he observed among us to-day. Thoro Is nn air of blase Indifference, Indiffer-ence, of knowing It nil, tn be seen In too many university men, Including some of tho younger Instructors ns well ns undergraduates. There are some such Instructors who have shown themselves unable to stand tho air of a German unlveisltj Men who renlly do know something worth knowing, great men Ulio lluiley and Tyndall, ate Invariably humble, a3 Isaac Newton was. |