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Show THE SPIRIT OF EDUCATION Education has the same .effect upon an individual as a polish has upon a diamond. . If a person is possessed with an inner fineness, education will bring it to the light. Whenever I think of education, there flashes into my find a picture of a small boy who was its most ardent ar-dent devotee. He studied by fiyelgiht, spelling out his words on an old shovel. The schools of those days were usually us-ually one-room cabins. The only : , I'ght was shed through holes in the a!l. A wood fire afforded the only 1 eat, and the pupils took turns .at f 'jedir.g it, also, doing the other work. The pupils had to rise about six o'clock, do their chores, and trutlgr tj school through miles of snow. S'.sch a school Lincoln attended for a siioit time, but soon conditions at home deprived him of even this. He had few books, but those which '. he had, he had learned by heart. He Vorked in the hot sun for many days to earn a small volume. At last, when he had grown to r.ian'.. '.-..tale, he was chosen to hold in Ids hands the destiny of a nation a nation about t-) fall apart like a piece of ciiina. Who rxcept Lsnu-'n could cement it until it was a great whole? Who but this gentle man could win his most hitler enemies, so that they, in time, would come to love him above all other men? Today, our educational facilities are abundant. Our schools and colleges are palatial. Yet 1 wonder if we appreciate ap-preciate our advantages as we might? Again 1 see the studious little boy, and sense within me a feeling of ihankfulnet s. Margaret Tarbet. |