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Excerpt from To the Members of the Senior Class
Spectacle. Manhood, when it comes, will bring with it objects of eager pursuit for usall; but the open vivacity of youthful contention will he ?ed. Ambition will then shew itself to-us with more of selfishness, and less of redeeming, graceful ingenuousness of competition. I can not, therefore, but regard a public education, in spite of the temptation, which it throws in the way of weakness, and the premature develop ment of the faculties, which it is apt to pro duce, - I cannot but regard it as of the first utility, in filling the mind with manly principles of honorable rivalry to fit us for the con?icts of life. And even if a public education did not possess this tendency to instil generous feelings of emulation, it would deserve to be looked upon with favor, were it merely on account of the opportunity, which it affords, for a free ln terchange of ideas and sentiments in early xeuth, and for contracting friendships before the.
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