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in the industrial army, for farthest exploration of unknown fields of 

 science, and for loftiest rise in the philosophical world and, even with 

 similar elementary experience and training, for greatest success in the 

 lower, but none the less great, world of money-makers. The twentieth 

 century man will be the college-man, in type, and it will be college- 

 men, as a rule, who may be expected to go farthest and rise highest 

 and to do the great deeds of the coming centuries, whether in finance, 

 in the industries, in political life or in the highest realms of science 

 and the loftiest worlds of morals and philanthropy. 



, Shame be to him if, with all his advantages, he permits another 

 to wrest from him that leadership by greater desert, by more perfect 

 fitness. Glory be to him if he do his duty and splendidly, as he may, 

 accomplish his grand task ! 



The college-man is evidently ere long to take charge of our public 

 ofiBces and of the industries and professional departments, and college- 

 men are to find their way into prominent positions as never before; 

 but, fortunately,, college-men come from all sorts and conditions of 

 people, and it can never be said that this means the organization of a 

 class to dominate other classes, much less the masses. The sons of poor 

 men, as a rule, always have been, and probably always will be, able to 

 secure these positions oftener than the sons of rich men; for they have 

 the discipline in early life that the latter usually lack. The process 

 of promotion of the college-man is to be one, as well, of constant redis- 

 tribution of power among all classes, very much as common experience 

 shows the wealth of the country to be as constantly in process of redis- 

 tribution. The democracy of intellect and the democracy of influence 

 will be insured by this process in the most desirable of all possible ways. 

 The way is now opening to the college-man as never before, and 

 especially the departments of applied science and the industries offer 

 him opportunities beside which those of the college-man in the other 

 professions are insignificant. 



In another generation the proportion of men, educated and un- 

 educated, who attain success will be vastly changed, and, happily, the 

 number of men who have reached competence or wealth in their voca- 

 tions and who must still sigh that they cannot give of their millions to 

 gain the education which they lack will be, probably, comparatively 

 small — for the ambitious poor boy will much more commonly than now 

 find his way to his triumph by way of the college or the professional 

 school. The number of wealthy men who will esteem it a privilege to 

 help on the work of education and to take part in other great works 

 will undoubtedly also steadily increase imtil, as we may perhaps hope, 

 the redistribution of surplus wealth may become the pleasure and the 

 recognized duty of all. 



The college-man, leaving college, goes out into life, once more a 



