The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 01, 1896, Image 16

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Newspaper Page Text16 THE BATTALION. otherwise might have obtained the title of genius but he had been over estimated by parents and all, he had been given the rein too quick; the child was judged able to map his course for himself, the result, he grew on a purely childish founda tion, and really never grew to be a man. The result shows how' necessary it is for the parent to aid in putting the boy on the right road and holding him there. It shows that there are two extreme classes of boys; the idle, who will strive to do nothing, (by far the most numerous class), and the glut tons; who try to do everything: The gluttonous nature is scarcely apparent in early childhood but seeds are sown that strikingly manifest themselves in later youth, and ultimately wreck the man. The happy medium is the successlul course. PRES. L. S. ROSS