Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-03-25
TIis YOUR Fps EfRlaMDa
Study, Study. Study,

arstIp. You may go to school all
your lifetime. You bay have the
very best OF teachers And you
may enjoy every facility for mental
Improvement. But uni ess you study
you 'yill never become a scholar.
A young ma n Of ohr acquaint-
ance who was solicitolls OF becom-
ing distinguish ed id the scientific
circle, wrote t b the Hon. Henry
Clay and inquired afte the way to
eminence. MIR. Clay answered
him as follows; sSrI} DY, STUDY.
STUDY. This was correct an
swer, but no news I'd our young
friend. He e expected that a man
who stood upo n the bill of fame
could point out to him some easy
way pt ascending; but Henry Clay
knew OF no " ay except that old
beate n track.
Now, young reader we say to
you, STUDY, ST UDY, Sd UDY. The
wide world is before you. You
have seen what study Has done, and
you Il ave encouragement to perse-
we're in study.
Th ere is indlcemeIt for you to
study at every turn. Pleasure, prof
it and fame all dance attendance to
the ST pdent. THERE'S an inexpress-
IDLE d egree of pleasure fn being able
to rec lite perfectly. The teacher is
please d. Your parents are pleased
And hose who visit 20 r school are
pleased. Then, atthe examination,
when hundreds come Ito hear you,
who gan desert be the pleasure of
those pupils that have b zen stcdious s..
The s tudious boy is nbted. He is
watch Jed as he passes up the hill pf
time and apr oaches to manhood.
Something is expected Of him; it
makes no difference whether he is
a son OF the most AFFECT poverty.
He has that within. him which hurls
from bis path every P etty obstacle
which prejudice may place 10 it,
He hos mind, he has cultivated it,
and b is course is upward despite Of
every attempt to keep him down.
| w hat has made all The great men
who's e names are fresh in cur mem
cries, although they ha We long since
gone the way Of all flesh? Study.
What wrote the name Of Demos
theme Cicero, Plato, a nd other men
Of a ncient tin es, high up on the
mon bment of fame? 1t is study.
Look around you, pung reader,
and see if you can fin d a single in
| dividual who o couples a place Of dis
tnction, and attained TO it without
study? Study is the chief corner
}stene Of all greatness, and now is
Tybut time to ay it.
| See that boy who hangs his head
when a question is addressed him.
He scarcely K nows wh ere the lesson
isl let alone how to answer the
qhe sticns founded on it. He picks
at his buttons, and shu flies his feet,
and looks, for all the world, like
sim pleton. What has he come to
school for? TO recite3 Why, it is
.pid i'm that he has nothing TO recite.
LID comes to school, and he goes
AWAY from school, idea less.
See him again: why it cannot be
th same boy. He isl full of life.
III E appears to know more about
W hat is going on, than hny one pre-
Sd Mt He is playing and he plays
when he ought to be studying
Thus he deprives himself of that
exquisite pleasure whidh eyery pupil
experiences when he is able to re-
Cite promptly and accurately. He
is fine little fellow, perhaps, and
would like to appear w ell at school.
He sees a class-mate ahead of him;
but this m axes little difference
| After a while he becomes man,
and our Fl he little fellow rejoices
That he can say, that he was a
schooi-mate Of this one who is now
feaping the rich harvest 81 honor
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