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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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from its foot, the upright part measuring 36feet, to work out the sublime problem of what wasthe length of the pole ? These questions, it seemsto us, though they may weary and haply puzzle a class WISDOM OF GETTING KNOWLEDGE. 99 of boys, belong, in most instances, to the magnificentSociety for the Diffusion of Useless Knowledge, mightbe dispensed with, in favor of something more practi-cal and useful, in accordance with individual needs.What is needed is simply this—a good, sound educa-tion, which will fit its possessor for the practical workand purposes of life, and yet give a foundation for high-er acquirements, should talent or circumstance renderthem necessary. Bet-ter a few things thor-oughly learned, thanmany pretentious ac-quirements imperfect-ly or flashily obtained.To return to ourdefinition of Ori-ginals. The follow-ing wholesome bit ofautobiography— fromthe faithful pen ofthat educated Ori-ginal, the pastor ofPlymouth Church—is submitted here asan honest illustration:
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STUDYING IN A HEALTHY PLACE, BUT IN ANUNHEALTHY POSTURE. Did you like to go to school ? 100 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. No, sir, I did not. I detested it—all its pre-cedents, all its accompaniments, and all its sequents. But this applies only to the primary schools. Theacademy and the college furnished many hours whichare to be remembered with gladness ; the early schoolsnot one. They were engines of torture, devised ex-pressly to make good boys unhappy, and seldom docontrivances succeed so well. Let us see,—the firstschool that we remember was Miss Collinss. DeaconCollins lived on the green, southeast of old Litchfieldsold church. Up-stairs we climbed, we remember that;on a long bench we sat, with our feet dangling in theair, and a tall, kindly-faced woman there was. Butbesides, we remember nothing—of book, slate, or reci-tation. Next we went to Miss Kilbornes, on the west sideof the square, and of this school two things stand forthin memory ;—first, that the wind on this high hill

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