Excerpt from The Smith College Monthly, Vol. 16: October, 1908-June, 1909 The second of these is to be gained from a habit of self discipline: discipline of character by the persistent effort to make the proper moral response to the demands of any situa tion; and discipline of mind by as persistent an effort to meet the intellectual demands Of every Situation. The first element - responsiveness - comes only through the action of a refined and quickened imagination, strung to Vibrate to the subtlest melody. In so far as we have acquired this habit of self-discipline, and have gained possession of a refined and quickened imagination, we have acquired culture, and have in that measure succeeded and in so far as we have not acquired these, whatever be the ex ternal marks of success upon us, we have in that measure failed. Every one Of us, I fancy, has known the bitter taste of it. Every one Of us could say, Here, and here, I have failed. It is not good to brood. Our college course is closed. Beyond a certain recognition of what it has meant to us, or should have meant to us above what it has, no more is to be done about it. Our next school is the world. We shall be educated henceforth by seeking a need there, and filling it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.