The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-25
= EXAMINATIONS loom large in
school life, because they are tests

r EXAMINATIONS loom large in
school life, because they are tests
CT progress. When the school
year is at an end, and you look back
over its course. as over % journey from
one point to another, The examinations
stand out in memory like miiestones
ON the road. In some schools there are
weekly tests. in others reviews come
monthly. and in nearly every school
there are half-yeaTly examinations
which very fairly show the work that
has been assigned and demonstrate
t.e faithfulness with which it has been
done
4 student whose work is fairly well
performed every day. who never brings
aai.-leaTned lessons to a recitation.
Who never shirks a task or accepts
aeID instead Of working out problems
for hersclf, need have no dread of ex-
aEIinatiOns- They viii take care of
themselves. But there are girls who
have an easy way Of slipping through
their tasks, who are not at all
thorough, nor diligent, and yet who
manage to seem prepared when they
are just the reverse L have known
such girls, brilliant and superficial,
who glanced over their work at the
last moment, and hoped for an easy
question. or who looked as If they
knew so much that the teacher passed
them over and put her query TO a
duller girl in the next seat These
sketchy girls, when examination time
comes, are obliged to cram" They
spend frantic hours In making up in a
hurry what ought to have been at
their fingers ends throughout the term.
They possibly pass a written examina-
tion, and send in papers that receive
high marks. But in the end they will
be distanced by other girls who were
faithful all through
Girls who are merely clever are like
merchants who put all their goods in
the shop windows and have nothing on
the shelves Unless we have plenty to
draw from besides what we put in
front for the public TO see, we shall
soon find our working capital exhaust
ed. and our resources hOpelessly
crippled
I wonder if you understand precisely
what I mean? 1t is so important that
woman should in these days be
equipped at every point. for her home
life or her business opportunities. or
her profession, whatever it NAV be
that no girl at school can afford to
waste her opportunities You have
been told over and over until the words
seem but an idle tale that you are in
LIES morning, that these are your best
days. and that If you do not make the
most of the present it viii never be in
your power to retrieve the loss.
Half the time you listen to this sort
of preaching with bored resignation.
when il comes from parents and
teachers But, dear girl it is true.
The mill viii never grind again with
water that is passed What you lose
today YOU cannot gain tomorrow The
real value Of education to girls is that
II is preparing them to take their
places in the world. and to make the
world better in days to come. A girl
Who does not make the most of her
time IN school viii not only be sorry
later on, but will be surpassed by
others less clever than herself, but
more conscientious.
Occasionally one meets a very com
monplace woman who has few ideas.
no conversation, and very little infu-
ence- People pass her by without
paying attention to anything she SAYS
and express surprise when told that
she IS a graduate of some conspicuous
college How did she ever manage
TO secure a diploma may be asked.
Well, there may be more than one