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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1898)
8 THE BATTALION. than the consideration of dollars and cents, of “live and let live,” of work and its due compensation. And, it is. to this hig-her relationship between student and instructor, that mutual co-operation for mutual benefit which is to be the pith and substance of any g'ood work that we may do this ye air, that I call your attention this morning-. Disabuse your minds, young- men, of the notion that this Colleg-e is a store-horse of learning- which is to be sold out to you by the headful as potatoes are sold by the peck. You come here endowed with physical health, it is to be hoped. You have’bfoug-ht minds, but have little or no experience of their value or use. The receptive, ap prehensive, constructive, determinative, and corrective faculties are there; an elementary and heterog-eneous pile of knowledg-e is there; a larg-e per cent, of it is trashy and worthless; so'that intellectually you are like one those big- department stores of the city with no experience, no exe cutive ability to org-anize and set it in motion. You have broUg-ht with you the moral and religious training- of parents and Sunday School teachers, a whole Bible of teachings and precepts about how to behave under this or that temptation,' about how to be’ honest, truthful, just and pure, about how to form associations; the . question is y will that.training stand the wear and tear of College life, will it wear well'amidst the new surroundings, require ments and emergencies'bf a student’s career? What I wish to say is, tbat-yoU-have brought with you from home the body, mind, and soul bn which these instructors are to work; success will depend upon a willing presentation to them, by you of-all. these personal faculties. You must be