All in all, you feel sure, as you go back down the "old Lime-Kiln road,"
that the motto of the school will be fulfilled in the life of each of
its students: "So enter that daily thou mayst become more thoughtful and
more learned. So depart that daily thou mayst become more useful to
thyself and to all mankind."

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(_Boston Transcript_)

BOYS IN SEARCH OF JOBS

BY RAYMOND G. FULLER

One morning lately, if you had stood on Kneeland street in sight of the
entrance of the State Free Employment Office, you would have seen a long
line of boys--a hundred of them--waiting for the doors to open. They
were of all sorts of racial extraction and of ages ranging through most
of the teens. Some you would have called ragamuffins, street urchins,
but some were too well washed, combed and laundered for such a
designation. Some were eagerly waiting, some anxiously, some
indifferently. Some wore sober faces; some were standing soldierly
stiff; but others were bubbling over with the spirits of their age,
gossiping, shouting, indulging in colt-play. When they came out, some
hustled away to prospective employers and others loitered in the street.
Disappointment was written all over some of them, from face to feet; on
others the inscription was, "I don't care."

Two hundred boys applied for "jobs" at the employment office that day.
Half the number were looking for summer positions. Others were of the