Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

allow it to go thus. In regard to the school's running
in debt. The tuition has been altogether too low in
America.
Can not those who conduct the schools in
America understand that this is the only way out?
Why do they keep the price so low? An increase in
price of educational advantages would stop that
increasing debt. The students are to be fed, and
they need good, nourishing food. They should not
be stinted in the wholesome fruit and vegetarian
diet; but cut off everything like the desserts. Let
abundance of fruit be eaten with the meals, but
custards and pastries are of no manner of use--all
unnecessary. Now when the wise heads officiating
in our schools study to run the school upon a sum
wholly insufficient, year after year, they are
engaged in a work that will bring debts; it can not
be prevented. They have begun this policy in
Cooranbong, but the very same results will follow.
There is no justice, or requirement of God, for
them to make such loose calculations. They make it
necessary to practice the closest economy, and it is
not always wise to bring down the diet as a means
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