fers the most
attractive, easy, and probable way of securing happiness and health,
good friends and high ideals, permanent interests of a noble kind, and
large capacity for usefulness in the world. It has been well said that
the ability to see great things large and little things small is the
final test of education. The foes of life, especially of women's
lives, are caprice, wearisome incapacity and petty judgments. From
these oppressive foes we long to escape to the rule of right reason,
where all things are possible, and life becomes a glory instead of a
grind. No college, with the best teachers and collections in the
world, can by its own power impart all this to any woman. But if one
has set her face in that direction, where else can she find so many
hands reached out to help, so many encouraging voices in the air, so
many favoring influences filling the days and nights?

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