The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-25
School Girls and Examinations
BY MARGARET E. sANesTER.

/ explanation She may have done ner
work mechanically. or she may have
had a Temarka bly, good memory, or
she may have studied hard for exam
/ nations and used up her strength TOO
lavishly. Unless 1one Is developed sys-
tematiCaily In brain and heart ana
body she VIII have to take a back seat
III the audience when others are on the
platform. directing the purposes of the
/ assembly She viii be in the rear, and
the procession will finally drop her
! from its ranks
/ want to say something to encourage
/ the dun girls. who have TO work ire
! mendously for all they secure In
/ talking one dag with a noted educator,
a man under whose eyes hundreds OF
! pupils had passed. and who had made
a profound study Of the possibilities OF
young people. I was impressed with
something he said. Tt was this
am not very much Interested III the
clever and brilliant girls who toss on
their work as If It were a bagatelle-
They may be trusted 70 achieve some
good results, unless they depend too
much on their native qUickness, or
} they prove failures A plodding pupil
who has 70 vase Il battle for every
inch Of ground gained Jwakens my en-
4 thUsiasm and stimulates me to offer all
the help that IS i'm me. I love to see
the triumph of logged perseverance
when difficulties have thickened in the
way"
Perhaps the poinl made here by the
teacher was 40 the effect that what we
strive for we prize. and also that
steady application. with a given object
in view, in the long run is better than
swift SpuTtS with lapses of idleness
/ between them.
Some of you have one method. some
another. Whatever else you leave I'M
done, ] beg you never TO let a day end
until you have finished fully the things
| that belong 20 that day. The long We
cations which we have ought to be put
to good use by school girls. partly in
view Of next years work and partly
because it is absurd TO drop study
wholly for One-fouTth to O1e-sIXth of
the year
The summer holiday is not in the
least too long for the teacher, but
it Is much too long an interval for
girls who wish to make the most of the
flying years to spend in entire idleness.
Why not take two hours every day and
| derOte them to some earnest study
which viii keep the mind facile. and
help you along another year, Why not
get up examination papers of your
OWN IF you like and if you have no
conditions, to occupy you before you
pass to a higher grade, a good plan
may be to take hold Of some study that
VIII keep YOU much out of doors. The
woods and fields are full of flowers
The brook and river wave with flags
and. rusnes. Up the hill slopes climb
the wild roses. beside the fence blaze
| the tiger lilies, over the stone wall riots
! the vine. and every tree and bush and
shrub is a whole school of natural his
tory.
There are birds almost without num-
I Der. there viii be moths beetles. but
terfiies. Crickets and katydids, squir-
rels viii frisk among the bOughs. and
/ chipmUnks play hide and seek among
the leaves No not lose sight of the
interesting things that are all about
you out Of doors.
Whether you pass your eXamina-
! tons in school with credit or not, sit
down now at Mother Natures feet and
( learn of her. Do not be discoura ged
/ If YOU have been surpassed by some
/ body else Do your best. and leave
/ the rest If at first YOU don't succeed.
/ try. try again.
! Copyright 1906. by Joseph b BowlesD