Show life Is a school under what similitude will you liken human life A P pleasure leasure garden or a prison house some soine say alli this life is a penitentiary tent iary where we are punished life is th ickley strewn ivil with thorns said one pessimist poss huist 4 1 and I 1 know no wa way y save eave to pass quickly allro through ugh them these persons are re stoics others view life as a garden ga aden of gaiety gayety they are epicureans epicure ans eat beut drink and be merry y is tile the of these sybarites syb arites the stoic is wrong life is not thickly strewn wath thorps thorns it is strewn with roses the thorns are incidental the theopi epi earean Is adso aaa wrong he that Q eks pleasure for pleasures aaka will find only satiety what then is it HUMAN LIFE IS A SCHOOL it begins in the mother arms arins aud ends only on the th groat great graduation day it has its recesses intermissions and vacations but tile the school goes on oil its teachers are named experience so sometimes inc kilnes the les lessons ons are hard and the tears full fall on tile the pages of the text texi book sometimes they are pleasant as well as profitable but the lessons lessone MUST BE LEARNED each must learn them for himself A man can beneath money or advice to his bo boy y but lie he cannot bequeath his expert beuce the boy must go 90 to school as did the father before him and as all the fathers before him hain did the student in lifes school never gets too old to learn when lie he quits learning he be gins to die how puerile to say one ones I 1 S education is 1 finished at col college legel the school of life has its shirkers shir kers if one becomes a TRUANT lie he must expect a sharp reprimand all d if lie he deliberately disobeys the ru lesof the chool he j th may a y expect e punishment f 61 else so the school would be anarchy contrariwise Contrary wise the scholar vi who ho app applies lies himself will be rewti rew ti d then hurrah burrah for our b jl A when recess comes lot let us laugh arid and play aud as roosevelt says play hard alie ahei i it is time for study let us gei ge down to our lessons aud on oil the groat great commencement day when the GREAT TEACHER shall hand to all of us our diplomas may inay there be written on them well done vv ex |