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has endow .1 boys. The normal boy, the boy worth in the boj with red blood in his veins, lov< action and i) Ml iiirr which d rib a and BU osts it. How ih < 'i' of il: >lder lines on the fli hi of the earl of Dund fron thai h>\ of naiiii md of lil who monum< wer thos of all soldiers and stal o in i In ir <*h ind Edinbui h, would sn then thai book and inspire i who wer allowed to hear and led to undersl d them:

There a hills '* nd Pentland and lands b »nd th. if ther s I lis in the Lowlands, ther chlel ID the No There are wild Duniewas three thousand tim inWill cry hoigh for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee. i fill up my cup, come fill up my can, C addle the bor and II up ft men Come open your gal and lei m < fr For it's up with ili«' bonnets of I nny Dund

No doubl iris with no teacher bul a man ai entitled I * in :tln : happily (hero are few of them. Bu1 in the distribo tion of sympathy le1 us no1 forgel the hoys who- only | her is a \ ian. And Ie1 the lion's share of pity go to either hoys

O! iris who a r e s u b j e d to a fussy w o m a n or. even wors than

Thai. an eminate man. So ion- as presenl conditions continue in the Ameri Is il will ho necessary to make rules for the government of I achers in order to keep i ho poorer on > from doing p.iMt h > harm. The weaker the system the more rules there musl b < and more inflexible they musl be. And rules lev< l down mor< than they level up. They can DO1 help poor teachers for ward: they do keep good teachers hack. They may prevent

p T a n d girlfi itive h a r m , hut iho\ also s t a n d in the way of the vital ele 9, the L'roni mission of y o u r s t a t i o n is to inspire I '."iin men and y o u n g women. If t h a i is don. ii mat

ni'-iii of inspirai ion in i ho schools.

tei nol o much whal else goes undone, you are ihe repre tentative - of the greatesl civilization the world has ever known char d with the r< ponsibllity of training men ami women who n realize itM CONI ami its worth, who can enter into iis pur