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 education which shall rear men, not morally and intellectually good alone; but good physically as well? which shall qualify them both to seize and to make the most of the advantages which years of toil and struggle bring; but which advantages among us now are too frequently thrown away? Men too often, just as they are about clutching these benefits, find, Tantalus-like, that they are eluding their grasp. The reason must be plain to all. It is because that grasp is weakening; and falls powerless at the very time when it could be and should be surest; and potent for the most good. Fortunately many ways are at hand, any of which would do much to remedy this evil. Some of them will be looked at later.