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Foster's Daily Democrat.
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Gospel Trumpet.
Green's Fruit Grower.
Journal of Advanced Therapeutics.
Manchester Union.
National Weekly.
New England Shoe and Leather Gazette.
New England Telephone Topics.
New Hampshire Issue.
Oriental Esoteric Society.
Protectionist. Red and White.
Rochester Courier.
Rochester Daily Times.
Springvale Advocate.
Strafford County Record.
Woman's Journal.
Woman's National Weekly.
Rochester, City of.
Rochester Printing Co.
Scientific Federation of Boston.
Schools and Colleges:
Austin Cate Academy.
Boston University.
Bowdoin College.
Colorado College.
Columbia University.
Cornell University. Corporation Schools.
Dartmouth College. Harvard University.
New Hampshire College.
Princeton University. Radcliffe College. Yale University. Seavey, Mrs. Fred F.
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Society of Colonial Wars. Spaulding, Hon. Rolland H. United States Army, Rercruiting Officer of. Vivisection Reform Society. Whitehouse, Mrs. Charles S. Wilson, Mrs. Florence. World's Peace Foundation.
LOANS TO MUSEUM
Bailey, Franklin H. Bassett, Clyde.
Edgerly, Hervey.
DEPOSITS OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.
United States Government, 19 volumes, 10 folios, 424 pamphlets.
FINANCIAL REPORT FOR 1914
Amount of money on hand January 1, 1914 $ 1 43
Received from fines and book damages,
Rochester, East Rochester and Gonic
187 54
Received from sale of catalogues
6 75
Received from out of town patrons
10 25
Total receipts
$205 97
Turned over to John L. Copp, Treasurer
$200 00
Cash on hand 5 97
$205 97
Respectfully submitted, LILLIAN E. PARSHLEY,
Librarian.
December 30, 1914.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY RECEIPTS
Bequests Jennie Farrington annex fund and interest to January 1, 1914 Interest on note to January 1, 1915
$1,019 63
35 98
Total
$1,055 61
Transferred to Treasurer for the purchase
of juvenile books
$ 50 00
Balance in bank January 1, 1915
$1,005 61
RECEIPTS
Balance in treasury December 30, 1913
$ 26 17
City appropriation
3,500 00
From librarian
200 00
Interest from Jennie Farrington fund
50 00
Total
$3,776 17
EXPENDITURES
Books, general fund
$ 545 27
Books, Jennie Farrington fund
50 00
Periodicals
123 85
Binding books and magazines
243 29
Printing bulletin
39 00,
Printing, supplies and incidentals
135 95
Repairs and materials
11 40-
Furnishings
79 64
Lighting and supplies
180 90
Telephone
28 10
Coal
165 22.
Wood
1 00
162
Gas
$ 5 50
Insurance on building
120 00
Librarian
700 00
First assistant
400 00
Second assistant
245 92
Third assistant
194 38
Janitor
400 00
Secretary of trustees
25 00
East Rochester, transportation of books
5 50
Gonic, Librarian
$50 00
Insurance on books
2 50
Periodicals
10 60
Lighting and fuel
10 40
$ 73 50
Balance in treasury
2 75
$3,776 17
JOHN L. COPP,
Treasurer.
I have examined the receipts and expenditures of the financial reports of the Librarian, Lillian E. Parshley, and the Treasurer, John L. Copp. I find the same cor- rectly cast and properly vouched.
JOHN YOUNG,
Secretary of the Board of Trustees.
Rochester, N. H., December 30, 1914.
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ROCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL
100HOS HDI
Annual Report
OF THE
School Board of City of Rochester NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1914.
At the regular monthly meeting of the School Board of Rochester, December 10, 1914, the Superin- tendent of Schools read his report for the year ending December 31, 1914. This report was accepted and adopted and ordered printed as the report of the School Board to the City Council and to the Citizens of the City.
EVERETT A. PUGSLEY,
Secretary ..
Rochester, N. H., January 1, 1915.
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School Board, City of Rochester
AS ORGANIZED FOR 1914
PRESIDENT HON. FRANK B. PRESTON SECRETARY EVERETT A. PUGSLEY MEMBERS OF BOARD
Ward One
GEORGE F. WILSON, IRVING C. FAUNCE.
Ward Two
ANDREW F. HOOPER,
GEORGE W. VARNEY.
Ward Three
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WILLIAM G. WELCH,
MILES H. DUSTIN.
- ELIHU L. WEBSTER,
Ward Four
WILLIAM WRIGHT
CHARLES W. WENTWORTH,
Ward Five
VINTON W. PRESTON.
Ward Six
JOHN M. BOSCH, JR. R. V. SWEET, M. D.
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STANDING COMMITTEES, 1914
Finance-F. B. Preston, Wentworth, Bosch.
Teachers and Salaries-F. B. Preston, Faunce, Varney, Dustin, Wright, V. W. Preston, Sweet. Music and Drawing-Bosch, Wilson, Webster.
Schoolhouses and Grounds-V. W. Preston, Varney, Dustin.
Supplies-F. B. Preston, Bosch, Wright.
Textbooks-Sweet, Faunce, Wright.
Rules and Regulations-Welch, Webster, Varney.
Ungraded Schools-Webster, Welch, Hooper.
Transportation-Wentworth, Wilson, Dustin.
Truancy-Wilson, Hooper, Welch.
Studies and Courses of Study-Wright, Sweet, Dustin.
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School Board, City of Rochester AS ORGANIZED FOR 1915
PRESIDENT HON. WILLIAM WRIGHT
SECRETARY EVERETT A. PUGSLEY
MEMBERS OF BOARD
Ward One
IRVING C. FAUNCE
GEORGE F. WILSON
GEORGE W. VARNEY
Ward Two
ALBERT I. HALL
MILES H. DUSTIN
Ward Three
ELLWOOD S. JENNESS
MRS. NORMA C. SNOW
Ward Four
PETER T. HARRITY
Ward Five
VINTON W. PRESTON JUSTIN A. EMERY
Ward Six
ROBERT V. SWEET WILLIAM S. LOUGEE
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STANDING COMMITTEES,, 1915.
Finance-Wright. Hall, Lougee
Teachers and Salaries-Wright, Faunce, Varney, Dus- tin, Mrs. Snow, Preston, Sweet Studies and Courses of Study-Sweet, Dustin, Lougee Music and Drawing-Wilson, Lougee, Harrity
Schoolhouses and Grounds-Preston, Varney, Dustin Supplies-Wright, Lougee, Hall
Textbooks-Sweet, Faunce, Mrs. Snow
Rules and Regulations-Varney, Harrity, Jenness Ungraded Schools-Emery, Jenness, Harrity Transportation-Dustin, Wilson, Emery Truancy-Wilson, Mrs. Snow, Jenness
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
EVERETT A. PUGSLEY
Office at High School building. Office hours: 8.00 a. m. to 9.00 a. m .; 3.30 p. m. to 4.30 p. m. daily, except Saturday.
HEAD JANITOR
CHARLES RAFFERTY, January 1914 to February 1914 J. HARRY DAME, February 1914 to January 1915
TRUANT OFFICERS
C. EDWARD GOODWIN, January 1914 to June 1914 MARTIN E. JONES, June 1914 to January 1915 FRANK R. HAYES GEORGE M. RANKIN
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JANITORS
Charles Rafferty,
Jan. 1, 1914 to Feb. 15
J. Harry Dame,
Feb. 15 to Jan. 1, 1915
James A. Kay,
Allen Building
Jan. 1, 1914 to Aug. 13 Geo. E. Horne, Aug. 13 to Jan. 1, 1915
Charles R. Brackett,
Maple Street Building
Thomas R. Rollins,
School Street Building
Jan. 1, 1914 to Feb. 20 Chas. Bickford, Feb. 20 to Jan. 1, 1915
Frank R. Hayes,
George M. Rankin,
Willis E. Meader,
East Rochester Building Meaderboro Building
CONTRACTORS FOR TRANSPORTATION
From September, 1914 to June, 1915
Jesse C. Baker,
Ralph Hall,
Edward Bickford,
Joseph O. Hayes,
Wesley Blaisdell,
Mrs. Frank E. Hodgdon,
Andrew N. Daggett,
Mrs. Addie F. Hussey,
George W. Emery, Mrs. Lucy A. Jenness,
George Gagne, Charles B. Keyser,
A. Roscoe Tuttle,
Ezra S. Smart.
High School Building
Gonic Building
Report of the Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Board and the Citizens of Rochester:
The following is offered as my fifth annual report, it being the twenty-third in the city series. I have again followed the plan of presenting the reports of the Principal of the High School and that of the Supervisor of Music. At the beginning of my report for the year.
REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
Mr. Everett A. Pugsley, Superintendent of Schools:
I herewith submit the annual report of the High School. In the class of 1914, the following students were given diplomas:
Name
Present Occupation
Margaret Bartlett, At home.
Myrtie Blake,
At home.
Marguerite Brodeur,
Emerson School of Oratory.
With N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
Florence Cook,
Mildred Dame,
At home.
Nellie Davis,
Gorham Normal School.
Marjorie Forbes,
Eleanor Fownes,
Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School.
Winnie Garland, Ruth McCallister,
Plymouth Normal School.
Bernice Mills, Nellie Lowe, Lottie Ricker,
Colonial School, Wash., D. C.
At home. Enters Bates next year. At home. Bridgewater Normal School. Teaching, Nottingham, N. H.
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Vira Shedd,
Begins work in Boston Hom- eopathic Hospital in Jan.
Alice Springfield,
Boston University.
Sara Wallace,
Ellen Williams,
Richard Altheimer,
With S. S. Lightbody.
Tilford Babb,
Burdett Business College.
At American Cafe.
Lester Berry,
With W. H. Champlin.
Herbert Canfield,
Albert Connell,
At home.
Roy Emmond,
With W. H. Champlin.
Walter Gray,
With N. B. Thayer & Co.
Chester Horne,
Postgraduate.
Howard Hurd,
With W. H. Champlin.
Cushing Academy.
Romeo Larose,
With Leopold Larose, Builder.
Leon McCombe,
With Feineman Bros.
Philip Morrison, .
Rochester Steam Laundry.
Clifford Mortimer,
In B. & M. freight office.
Irving Nute,
With W. H. Champlin.
Vaughn Parsons,
At home.
New Hampton Literary Insti- tute.
Verne Preston,
Roy Shaw,
New Hampton Literary Insti- tute. At home.
Miss Beatrice Page, who took postgraduate work with us through the year, entered Wellesley College this fall.
The total enrollment for the present year is 296, divided as follows: 1 postgraduate; 53 in the senior class, 51 in the junior class; 76 in the sophomore class;
Mt. Ida.
With Gonic Mfg. Co.
Clyde Bassett,
Bates College.
Willis Hayes,
With Courier Print.
Wilfred Jacques,
Stanley Pinkham,
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and 115 in the freshman class. Of this number, one has died and 7 have left school, leaving the present membership 288, as compared with 263 last year and with 228 in 1912.
The teaching force has changed materially during the past year. Four of our faculty, Miss Springfield, Miss Foss, Miss Wilson and Mr. Martin, resigned last June; and the rapid growth of the school made it also necessary to increase the number of teachers. In these positions, we now have Mr. King and Miss Hammett in the Commercial branches; Miss Taylor, Latin; Miss Knowles, German and History; and Miss Babbitt, Eng- lish. While the loss of efficient instructors is always to be regretted, the Board is to be congratulated on its choice of candidates; for the present corps of teachers is well qualified both by preparation and by experience. They are hardworking and efficient, and have been loyal to the school administration, and harmonious in co-operation with each other.
Some steps of progress have been made in the school organization. We have tried the plan of two recesses of five and ten minutes respectively, in place of the one recess of fifteen minutes; and the change has added greatly to the efficiency of the school. We have given up chapel exercises two mornings a week in order to devote more time to penmanship. We still lack sufficient time to give to this important subject, but plans have been formulated for a much greater ex- tension of the work. A standard class pin has been adopted by the classes of '17 and '18 with the idea that future classes will fall in line and that we shall have no further question, from year to year, as to the design of the pin. The afternoon class for extra work has been systematized and made to stand for more than it has hitherto. All the teachers have been very willing
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to give one afternoon each week, aside from that de- voted to the regular teacher's meeting; and with the slip system in use this important work has been well covered. Athletics have remained in the hands of the teacher manager with excellent results. Debating is to be attempted this year, with the hope that eventually it may hold a recognized position among the school ac- tivities. The entertainment courses have been again successfully managed by the school. From the 1913- 14 course about $90 was realized; and, while the pres- ent course, owing to the general conditions of business, will not net as much, yet it will leave some $40 or $50 in the treasury. Through this fund, dictionaries have been placed in all of the high school rooms, certain other reference books have been purchased, a perma- nent curtain has been provided for the stage of the assembly hall, and a suitable cable for operating the school lantern has been procured.
The school has twice been saddened by the death of some of its most promising members. Two mem- bers of the class of 1915, Miss Leona Blaisdell and Miss Helen Andrews, lost their lives in the railroad accident at North Rochester. Each of these young ladies had won a large place for herself in the school both on ac- count of her high scholarship and on account of her strong character and her agreeable disposition. This year, Miss Ellen Dinsmore likewise met her death through accident. Miss Dinsmore had been in school only a few weeks, but had already shown herself a conscientious and faithful student.
The Springfield scholarship, made available for use last year, is serving its purpose admirably. A scholar- ship of such generous size and of such broad service is so rarely at the disposal of a public high school that Mrs. Springfield's bequest is all the more appreciated.
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For the past two years this scholarship has been held by Miss Eva Calef, Boston University 1917.
Mention should also be made of the able and effi- cient work done by Mr. Dame in keeping the building clean, warm, and properly ventilated. His work has consistently been of the very best throughout the year.
For the future, there are several lines along which the work of the school may be improved. One of our handicaps is that our school has grown out of its pres- ent course of study. An expansion of over twenty-five per cent. in the high school membership in two years, while the city has gained but little, must mean that the school is reaching a far greater part of our people than- ever before and that studies which might, and prob- ably would have been out of place under former condi- tions, may now meet very real needs. On the other hand, I realize that lack of funds have prevented and do prevent as definite action as I would otherwise recommend. The retiring Board has already attacked this problem by the appointment of a committee to in- vestigate our present course; and I sincerely hope that this committee may be continued and that its report may be the basis of future action.
A second great need of the school has also been recognized and partially corrected by the Board. In my last report, I called attention to my fear that the overcrowded condition of the grades would result in the promotion of pupils inadequately prepared to do high school work. Conditions this year thoroughly substantiate my statement. Our present freshman class is not, as a whole, nearly as well prepared as have been those of the preceeding years; and the deficiencny is almost entirely just where it is to be expected- among the less capable students. Pupils of above aver- age ability can and generally do perform their work
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creditably without great demand for extra help on the part of the teacher, but there always are many others less fortunate who need much extra assistance. While I personally know how earnestly and efficiently many of our grade teachers have endeavored to meet this sit- uation, it needs no argument to show that it is impos- sible for a teacher in charge of fifty or more pupils to give each the individual attention that is so essential. Those in our freshman class who are naturally good students have been fully up to our requirements; but the weaker pupils are, in too many cases, below a proper high school standard. We have many needs, some of them pressing needs, at the high school; but in building for the future, I honestly believe that more teachers for the grades will be the best and most economical means of increasing the efficiency of the high school, in that it will vastly better the preparation of our entering classes.
Tardiness continues a very real problem in our school. With an increasing attendance of pupils from the outlying districts, a certain amount of this seems un- avoidable; but existing conditions can be greatly reme- died if the parents will co-operate with the school au- thorities in securing more punctual attendance. "Work at home" or "errands" to be done in the brief time be- fore eight o'clock are too frequently genuine reasons for a five or ten minute tardiness.
In the school as at present organized, there are only 310 seats, so that, in all probability, another year will find the high school building occupied solely by the high school proper, as it seems reasonable to expect that we shall increase our enrollment at least 20. Many of our classes are really too large at present and should be divided as soon as conditions permit, particularly in the English and the French courses.
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More typewriters should be installed, so that the present commercial teaching force could instruct all typewriting pupils instead of permitting pupils to prac- tice without direction, on account of the limited num- ber of machines. It is better economy to carry on typewriting in classes of fifteen to twenty pupils than to attempt to provide teachers enough to instruct the same number of pupils in divisions of nine or ten, as the entire cost of the six or more extra machines would fall far short of a single year's salary of an instructor. In the science room a rearrangement of seats and the installation of an instructor's desk has been already provided for.
The text book situation is much better than be- fore, and the development of present plans will appar- ently meet our needs quite adequately. The public library, by its very efficient co-operation with the school, is not only doing a splendid public service, but is also saving the school yearly a large expense for ref- erence works to which we now have ready access through the painstaking efforts of the librarian and her assistants. As long as the present conditions exist, our school library need include only the most common and necessary reference books.
Permit me in closing to express my appreciation of the friendly and cordial relations which have existed between us and to thank the Board for its friendly co- operation.
Respectfully submitted,
GILMAN H. CAMPBELL,
Principal.
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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
To the Superintendent of Schools:
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Sir :- I have the honor and the pleasure of submit- ting my report of the music in our schools for the past year.
I find the work in the grammar schools improving each month and speak with pleasure of the progress made by the children. The kindness of the School Board in granting my request for charts and books for the first four grades, is greatly appreciated by me and I feel that we have been very successful in the use of this material. The interest in the schools in music is very gratifying and both teachers and pupils look for- ward to the music period with pleasure and enthus- iasm.
The work in the High School has gone on most successfully. We have a goodly number in the chorus and we are attempting musical numbers of great merit. Our one wish is that every boy and girl entering the High School would join us but at present this is not possible as other lessons conflict. We do appreciate however the earnest work of those in the chorus.
I feel that a word should be spoken of the work done by the graduates of the Grammar schools. In East Rochester at graduation the graduates, assisted by the school children sang "The Flower Queen," do- ing two and three part chorus work, solo and duet numbers in a most commendable manner, and may we be allowed to say that one of the most pleasing solos of the evening was sung by Edith Blaisdell, one of our girls who met such an untimely death this past sum- mer.
On the evening of June 19th all our graduates united in a concert given at the City Opera House and
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sang in a most satisfactory manner the cantata, "The Fairies' Festival." I am sure the people of Rochester had every reason to feel proud of their girls and boys on this occasion and we all felt proud of the fact that it was the first public appearance of our school boys and girls and felt that perhaps in some small measure we were showing our appreciation of the privilege we enjoyed in being given the opportunity of studying the greatest of the arts, music.
In closing I desire to thank you, Mr. Pugsley, most sincerely for the many kind words spoken to me, and for your hearty co-operation. Also I want to thank the teachers with whom I am working. They have given me able assistance in my work, and their good will and kindly support has made my work in the schools a very great pleasure to me.
Respectfully,
MOLLY C. DONOHOE.
OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
At the outset of what is here presented it may be safely said that the schools have served the city as well as ever during the year just closed. They have not only developed the mental ability and character of the children attending them but they have through the de- velopment of mental strength and better morals given such training and basal preparation as will enable those who have been educated in them to pursue their chosen occupations and professions with an ever increasing usefulness and effectiveness, and to become intelligent,
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self supporting and happy citizens. And this should be the aim and the end of any and every educational system it would seem.
This opening statement is based not wholly upon the tabulated results of attendance, promotions, and scholarships, valuable as these things may be as a basis of judgment, but in a large measure upon the suc- cess of those who seeking, finding, and occupying posi- tions have gone out from the schools from year to year and, so to speak, have made good.
Education
It has long been believed by nearly all the people of our country, if not all of them, that in education or, more properly speaking, education by way of the schools or schooling, lies the safety, hope and prosperity, not only of the individual but also of the state and nation in which we live. And at the present time, all this is claimed for what is termed education. On every hand, one hears it said, educate, educate, educate, for in the thorough training of the mind and the physical powers lies that which promotes the usefulness of every indi- vidual and greatly enlarges the field of opportunity to him who possesses it; and furthermore the statement runs from lip to lip that an educated public is bound to succeed in about all its undertakings. In consequence of all this, schools have been and still are multiplying on every hand and vast and vaster sums of money have been and are being devoted to educational matters un- til in many municipalities the cost of the schools re- quires all of a third of all the revenues and in some a full half.
Now what is said concerning education and claim- ed for it, is without doubt, largely true and yet it may be well worth while to observe well as to what is going
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on in the world at the present time and to take ac- count of the conditions of life therein in order that we may better understand just what part education is playing in the affairs of life to day and discover, if we may, some way in which to render it more of a force for good, if all things said of it are true, or find out wherein it is deficient and apply a remedy provided they are not.
If any one deeply interested in the matter under- takes a serious consideration of social, moral, religious or any other conditions in his environment he is struck with certain facts that present themselves very forcibly to his mind.
If an examination is made concerning the matter of earning a living, it is found that while one educated man is earning enough to support himself and family another is not doing so. If attention is given to the business world, it is discovered that one man of refined mind is succeeding and that another of equal training is falling behind. If the field of finance is given con- sideration one man of trained intellect is found at the head of affairs in some great institution, who is ever standing for honest accumulation, willing to have and let have, while another is revealed as one who would wreck a bank or a railroad and reduce many a well-to- do person to poverty in order that he may secure large gains to himself. If a view is taken of the political field, one man of great intellectual attainment is found who is ever active to secure just legislation and another who is ever arrayed with those who favor the few at the expense of the many. If a study is made of moral conditions one man of much culture and refinement is found who is a leader in all that goes to make society better and another of like culture comes to light as a libertine, who hesitates not to live the immoral life or
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to ruin the home and disrupt the family of another. If a survey is taken of the field of diplomacy, one man with a highly disciplined mind comes to view who ad- vocates peace and the settlement of difficulties by ar- bitration while another of equal mental discipline, ap- pears who foments discord and calls for war to the knife. If note is taken of the best educated nations of the present day they are found at one another's throat engaged in a destruction of life and property that causes humanity to shudder. More than all this, upon investigation it is found that about as many men with little or no schooling have made their way in the world successfully as have done so with the help of a disciplined mind at the start. It seems very plain then, much as one may dislike to admit it, that educa- tion does not absolutely determine just what is to be or not to be. No. While education is of great value and assistance in about all that we may do, it is not a pan- acea for all our personal, municipal, or national ills; and it was never designed to be such. It cannot take the place of the honest heart or the willing hand, of the brilliant intellect or of energetic action. It cannot be handed out in equal amounts to each individual and it does not affect each individual in the same way, nor possibly always for his own good.
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