Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Arbor Vitae, 1914
It possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts that recommend it to the favor of smug contentment and well hedged conceit. But it was not made for a minion or a too]. As little did it follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing upon the understandings of the people.
At every step of its progress there has been that which traversed and opposed, and at every turnpike it has had to show its passport, and again and again to prove its sole title to the honor of being useful to the city of its birth, to the state of its nativity, and the country which it loves. It has earned its place through proof to the world that it is not wholly unacquainted with the standards and necessities of its time, and the whole system of activities and forces which shape and control, and point the way of Twenty Century Edu cation. Conceived in a pure desire honestly to serve, it has faced discourage ment and doubt, but has frequently been able to transmute the wretched parsimony of its accumulated stores into plenteous hope, through the alchemy of enthusiastic and audacious venture.
As growth and progress is the only law which so vigorous a life can obey, those of us who now see its early successes need not expect, and should much less hope to see its star at zenith.
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