the best things in life.  While all this is true, it is true too
that to the open-minded and ambitious boy or girl of moderate
health, ability, self-control, and studiousness, a college course
offers 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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