THE OAK AND THE MARROW
A college sludent once asked his professor if he could not lake a shorter course than (he one laid down in the prospectus of the institution. "That depends," replied the. professor, "upon what yon wish to make of yourself. When Nature wants lo make'an oak she works away on (he job for a hundred years, bul if she wants to make a vegetable marrow, she needs only a few months."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 2
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75THE OAK AND THE MARROW Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 2
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