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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

rights are needed, dress re-form and simplified spelling, food-chewing, prohibition, and criminal laws are all right in their way; but still the "one thing need­ful" is to know how to live. That is what's the matter with all of us who go wrong. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 53 Only one kind of education is of first ac-count for a bad boy; it is the kind that edu­cates him to live. Geography and manual training will not cure him of his cussedness, nor will common fractions and United States history help him to be clean, brave, and kind. Here are the subjects in which a public-school pupil ought to be drilled : How to control my temper. How to use my imagination so as to strengthen me instead of making me weak. How to improve and toughen my will. How to find pleasure in common things. How to get joy out of nature. How to curb my selfishness and develop my altruism. How to play fair. How to work so as to make work a plea-sure. 54 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS How to be a good fellow without being a fool. How to get stimulation out of simple food and water drink, and not alcohol.

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