Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — A Word to Students. [ARTICLE]

A Word to Students.

From HUI'S Manual of Social and Bualnea® Forma. It should be the aim of the student to be punctual in attendance at school, to be thorough in study, and good in the recitation. The boy or girl who would bo successful in after life must lay the foundation of success in youth. They should folly understand the importance of improving their schooldays for this purpose. -- The student that seeks every opportunity to idle away his time m making sport for himself and fellow-studenta will live to regret that he thus wasted his time. The happy, sportive/joyous, laughing boy or girl shed happiness wherever they go, if they are careful to control their gayety, and allow its flow only in the proper place; but they should never pernut the love of the mirthful to infringe on the rules of the school-room or the laift of etiquette. On the contrary, true courtesy should teach them to use every endeavor to aid the teacher in his work, as in so doing they, themselves will reap the benefit The boy or girl at school foretell the future man or woman. Those who are prompt, punctual and orderly, will be so in after life. Those who are truthful, reliable, and honest in childhood, will be trusted in position and place in after years; and those who store the mind In youth .with valuable knowledge will possess that which can never be lost, but on the contrary will always be a means by which they may procure a livelihood; and, if united with energy and perseverance, will be sure to give them reputation, eminence of position, and wealth. The boy should never take a pride in disobedience to the rules of the school.

To be a truant, to be indolent, to be working mischief, evinces no talent; any rowdy could do this; most worthless men did this when they attended school. It requires effort to be a good scholar; it evinces brainpower to oea good student. The youth should earnestly resolve to achieve an honorable and noble position in life. With the wide opportunities which open to the ambitious and the enterprising iu this age of progress aion, there is no limit to the greatness which the thoroughly earnest student may attain. The idle and the dissolute will naturally, of their own weight, drop out by the Wayside qnd sink from sight. The plodder who is content with the dull, daily round in the same narrow rut will get the reward of his labor, though he never betters his condition. But the earnest, original, aspiring, energetic, intelligent worker, can always be sure of new fields to enter, nobler victories to gain, and grander work to accomplish.