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which, as Seneca nobfy says it is a
virtue to be covetous 1t is amazing
To think how much time may be gained
by proper economy. Many men and
women have become very scholarly by
using their odd moments to advantage.
"Elihu Burritt attributed his first
success in self-improvement. not to
genius which he disclaimed, but simply
to the careful employment of those
fragments of time called odd Nom
ents.' While working and earning his
living as a blacksmith, he mastered
eighteen ancient and modern languages
and twenty-five European dialects
Withal he was exceedingly modest and
thought his achievement nothing eX-
traordinary. Those VINO have been ac-
suainted with my character from my
Youth up, said he, writing to a friend,
Will give me credit for sincerity when
I say that it never entered my head to
blazen forth any acquisition of mine.
All that ! have accomplished or expect
h. accomplish, has been and will be by
that plodding patient. preserving pro-
cess Of accretiion which builds the
ante-heap- particle by particle, thought
by thought fact by fact. And if ever
! was actuated by ambition its highes-
and warmest aspirations rested no fur
Their than the hope TO set forth before
the young men of my country an eX-
ample of employing those invaluable
fragments of time called odd NOM
entS'
Time was the estate ont of which
great workers carved 2 rich inheritance
of thoughts and deeds for their sue
cessors. Sir Walter Scott found spare
moments for REINFORCEMENT in
every pursuit and turned every acct
dent to account. He was accidentally
disabled by the kick Of a horse and
confined to some time to his nome. but
Scott was a sworn enemy to idleness
and he forthwith set his mind to work
and in three days composed the first
canto of The Lay of the Last Min
strel,' his first great original work.
BY having a high aim in life and
occupying every moment advanta
geously toward the wanted goal, the
highest success will crown your eff
forts. The wanton wastefulness of
time. Incidence, slOthfulness (Which is
the rust of the souD. the habit of
To any one pursuing the course. What
a miserable end attends such? What
value have been their lives? 1t is
truly TO be hoped that the graduating
class will take the wise course; the
one leading to happiness and success
in life; one which will leave the world
better for their having lived in it,
Rip Van Wrinkle went off into the
Catskiil mountains in the days of
George III and came back after a sleep
Of 20 years and instead of the statue
OF the king on the village green, he
saw waving in the breeze the stars
and stripes. Everything seemed out
Of place the world had outgrown him,
no one knew him nor cared to know
him. He had lost so much of life that
he could not adjust himself to new
conditions.
This seems like fable yet there
are young people today in a Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep and if they ever wake
up at all, which they sometimes do in
later life, when it is too late they will
seem out of place. The world pro-
crossed, they degenerated. No one
may care to know them they are so
worthless. They lost the golden OPP
portunities of youth which they can
never regain. Let's not be Rip Van
Wrinkles.
Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait
AS the great commoner mas said
Each day marks out our duty for us
and it is for us to devote ourselves to
it, whatever it may be. with high pur-
pose and unfaltering courage. Whether
we live to enjoy the fruits of our own
efforts or lay down the works before
the victory is won. we know that every
word spoken has it's influence: that no
good deed is ever lost. And we know
also, that no one can count his life on
earth as spent in vain if, when he de-
parts it can be said: The night
is darker because his light has gone
out; the world is not so warm because
his heart has grown cold in death