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Us1 Bpring the Central railroad of \v« Jersey, liearii oi tblfi w o r l a n d n ling help, applied for the use of one . t tin ;u lurin ,lh ' summer vacation, and we loaned them a car as v l ,rn! " l > and some students, for a suitable eonsiderar lu>n A , h l 1;lsl fall Mi. STew Ym-k Central people, driven to d < ation by the newspaper criticism of their Park avenue tunDel and standing in danger of indictment, wired us for the use one of our cars bj an experl in trying to work out the best el -trie inipmenl for their righl of way into the heart of the ;itrs1 city of the country. For a compensation still more *ii than thai exacted from the New Jersey Central it has , with our professor and students, and as it vibrates 1 t* n the Grand I atral station and the works of the Genii el< tri' company at Schenectady iii the execution of its mission its beautifully painted ex1 rior docs not fail to indicate where it came from and what it is there for. There is quite as much training and discipline, quite as much culture of manliness and quil as much advantage to the world, in pushing* on the 8 ientiflc construction and operation of railroads, in build< ii tunnels under great rivers and the greatest city in the count r y a in d Ijing out Chinese and masticating Sanskrit roots. There is no mistake about it, the schools will have to lend them l\ es to the industries of the nations more than they have vei done. This will have to be done even though it involves the

throwing a w a y of some old ideals and s t a n d a r d s , for the con-

,ns demand it, and the growth of the people will be prom

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Encoura • life in the open air, not for physical more than f0] m enta] and moral health. Let the schools smell of the

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the doctrinaire, stand by held sports, even those which j l l i r , s . our young people do not have to struggle any lh , m l l ( . h o r assume any too many risks. There is more trainI 1JM. p e a ] demands of American citizenship through the