3S8 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



freshman and with the university of life for his next place of struggle, 

 of aspiration and of achievement. He enters upon a new training by 

 different methods and through radically different experiences. He is 

 trained indeed but by no sympathetic and systematic teachers. He 

 must find his own way to knowledge, and to wisdom which is greater 

 than knowledge, and must struggle onward and upward with not only 

 little assistance, but even with almost every man's hand against him 

 and driven, at times, to raise his hand against every man except the 

 select few whose interests or whose convictions coincide with his own 

 and are opposed by all the world beside. But this is not difficult for the 

 man who knows himself in the right. In all men, it is obvious to the 

 close observer, there exists a fighting instinct which has its use in life 

 and the joy of contest makes easier the struggle for the intended goal. 



Honesty, ability, capacity and power, supplemented by precisely the 

 right sort of learning and made available through systematic training, 

 in every case prove winning quantities. The complete development 

 of the man to a maximum of usefulness in the vocation and the life 

 to which he is by nature best fitted, means progress and ultimate success 

 — provided he can keep himself in training. An essential element of 

 the art of success is that of living long enough and in a state of high 

 working efficiency. The fact that this is so generally ignored makes 

 the opportunity of the man who never forgets it all the larger. 



It is also the fact that it must be admitted that the incapacity, 

 the lack of integrity, the indifference to duty and the general inefficiency 

 of the average man is one of the elements of the success of the man 

 who does finally succeed. But, sad as is the fact, it may fairly be 

 accepted by the man who is at once gentleman and scholar and expert, 

 as contributing to his opportunity. 



And now, at this period of blossoms and nature's most beautiful 

 season of promise and of hope, our young men and our young women 

 are going out from the colleges to meet their opportunities. In these 

 early days of the twentieth century, the college-man is the man of the 

 century as never before, and the college-woman is, as never before, his 

 most efficient helpmeet. All paths open to them and all fields are theirs 

 for cultivation and 'all sorts and conditions of men' look to them for 

 leadership and guidance. Theirs it is to prepare for leadersliip of 

 every industrial army, for conquest of every unknown kingdom in 

 nature's as yet unexplored realms, for discovery of uncounted secrets 

 of the mysterious workings of physical law, of sources of energy and 

 of new methods of utilizing all forces and all substances. These are 

 they who shall become generals in the industrial armies, expounders 

 of law, presidents, capitalists, benefactors of humanity. 



For every one, if he will but seek it, there lies ahead a career as 

 full of accomplishment, of honor, of usefulness to the world as his best 



