MAXIM FOR BOYS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 10

MAXIM FOR BOYS.

LORD ROSEBERY ON HAPPINESS. Lord Rosebery, with all his oratorical felicity, delivered a brief address to the Higher School boya of Edinburgh on life and dearly-bought experience and on the healthy mind in the healthy body. The Daily Mail reports his speech :—: — "I suppose, he Baid, "that between the oldest of you and myself Borne five and forty years intervene. Looking back on that period one reviews it with the sense of one's own great shortcomings, ona'is waste of time, of one's opportunities mipßed. The best of men cannot have felt any complete satisfaction on reviewing his career. "The most costly thing in the world is wh.it we- are nil willing to give to thoKe who are younger and what our junior* never accept, but throw away in a ditch .is soon as they receive it, aa if it were destitute of all value— and that is experience. We all buy our experience very dear — with pain, with angnibh, pomefimes with our heart/ s blood — and yet when we try to give it to those who are younger than ourselves they treat it with neglect and with contempt, and they go into this world resolved to buy their own experience themselves. "I therefore will not offer you my experience, because, as 1 say, you would reject it. But there is a great phrase which has come down from the ancients which embodies, I think, all that a boy at school ought to wish to be — putting religion aside. That is — I am going to say it in Latin, but you won't understand it because I pronounce it in the Eton way, which is all wrong, and you pronounce it in the Scottish way, wriich is all right — Mens sana in corpore sano. (Applause.) A healthy mind in a healthy body — that is almost the secret of happiness at school and after school. You can only get that healthy mind in a healthy body by working both, not by shuffling either at sports or at work, but by throwing your best heart and best energies into both, and in that* way you will not turn out sneaks or drift into the region of the unemployed. I don't mean those who walk the streets, because there are unemployed in every ephere of life."