The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-02-13
A Talk with soheoI Bows and Girls.


How many of you would like to be good
scholars? OF course you all would. Your
parents send you to school expecting that
you will do all that you can, but how is it :?
Frequently you are tardy. and perhaps lose
lesson. Recollect that that lesson Is so
much lost While in school You spend con-
siderable time in listlessly gazing about,
helping your neigh6or do nothing. Some of
the greatest boobies must show how smart
they are by endeavoring to outwit the teach
er, and thus create disturbance Often
times SCHOLARS look at their books ten or
twenty minutes without seeing a single
word-they are thinking of some fun they
have had, or expect to have at noon, recess,
or at the spelling school. Of course you
study some, perhaps considerable, but you
can think of great many Interruptions oc-
curing every day, SO that really you do not
accomplish what you ought, and might. 1t
is true that much depends upon the teacher,
but much more upon yourselves. II an in
diYidual will not study, the best teacher in
the world cannot make him. good scholar.
He may possibly beat few ideas into his
head, but it will be at best rather discour-
aging employment, and something like
pouring water into seiYe. To accomplish
much you must work. Some acquire with
much greater facility than others, but such
have not really very great advantage over
those that acquire with greater difficulty
The one that readily commits bis lesson
often forgets it in little time, while the one
that is obliged to study hard, long retains
his well earned treasures. Now let me give
youa few simple rules in regard to study
When you study, study hard. Be so in
terested in your lesson, if possible, as not
to know what is going on around you.
Finish the lesson-fnd out everything
about it.
Have particular time for every thing.
Devote so much time to your reading,
spelling, arithmetic, geography, ect., and
allow nothing to interrupt you.
Take your books home at night, and i'm
prove your evenings, bering that
time devoted to hard study is worth more
to you than money.
1 have enc more rule which, above all,
you should remember
BE seJ:reliant-that is, conquer all diff
culties that come in your way. Is your
lesson hard, be sure to master it. Have
Won n 4;Hfo1IF ,,rol,lor,, - ,o1-o - -
yrurself, and not go to the teacher, nor look
into key-then you will understand it. I
once knew boy to work three days upon a
single example, Patience and perseverance
will overcome all obstacles. Many schol-
ars, after trying a few times, throw down the
book, and say, "I can't 81 can't y
never ACCOMPLISHED anvthino Ne,,o,. nine
up conquered, if you hope to make anything
of yourselves.
A college officer, who had seen thousands
of young men go out into the world from
an old institution of learning, once re-
marked to the writer that those students
who had acquired with the greatest facility,
and consequently stood highest in college,
as a general rule, did net rise very high in
the world, while those who were always at
work would in the end become eminent.
Many of our greatest and best men have
raised themselves to their present positions
of honor and usefulness by their own ener-
gy and perseverance. Among the thou
sands of this class may be mentioned Hen
ry Clay, Senator Wilson, Gen. Banks, and
not the least among them, our noble Presi-
dent Lincoln. These started as poor boys
and agOrked themselves ZIP. Now boys and
girls remember this. If you ever become
anything goa must make yourselves.
G. c. NJ.