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things in a man's or woman's makeup. Talk about training. I have seen 

 on our campus men who are dressed in a somewhat abbreviated uniform, 

 running around the campus just as tight as they could run. Why were 

 they doing this? Who were they? They were running their very best. 

 There were eleven of them. It looked to one looking on as if they 

 were playing follow the leader. These men Avere football men. What 

 were they doing? They were training their wind. They were simply 

 running in order to develop that tremendous lung power which a man 

 must have when he goes into a hard-fought battle and stays in the game 

 and isn't knocked out in the first round when he runs up against his 

 competitor. The man who pounds stone ought to have muscle to pound 

 anything else. There is accumulated strength there. The man who 

 trains his mind to do hard work by thinking out hard problems in alge- 

 bra, geometry, Latin and Greek is also training his mind for other things. 

 These things are not useless because we do not have them in everyday 

 life. They give us a natural training for other things. How many of 

 you are prepared to sit at a desk for three solid hours and not think 

 of another thing except one problem, and think that problem through 

 to a final, accurate, satisfactory conclusion in view of all the circum- 

 stances that are a part of that problem? The majority of you would go 

 crazy if you wci-o to try tomorrow, ber-ause most of you are not in 

 practice. Pardon a personal reference, but I have a brother who is 

 rooming with me. He was a freshman last year in college. I have seen 

 that young man sit at his desk on the opposite side of mine, and work 

 at a problem and think of nothing else from seven until eleven. And 

 more than once I have seen him think of just one problem all this time. 

 This he does night after night. Now then, tell me, if you will, whether 

 the concentration and training which he gets in thiat close application 

 helps him to sit there without getting fidgety and leaning back and 

 stretching, and all these things. Tell me whether or not that training 

 which enables him to sit there and think out those problems will not 

 enable him to sit down and think out perplexing problems in business 

 with a great deal more thoroughness, and more accuracy. This is why 

 some subjects contribute so largely to the student in the agricultural col- 

 lege. In the agi-icultural school the student is getting just what he needs 

 to know when actually farming. He has the practical application. I 

 remember with what surprise and wonder some of our farm men looked 

 at me when I had charge of the farm work the first summer. There were 

 some young men who wanted to form a perfect square of a certain size 

 for the variety show. Tliey wanted a perfect square, for we lake pleasure 

 in having our rows straight, and having everything parallel with the 

 fence. As a man used to say, we want(jd things to look as if they had 

 been put there, and did not happen. These young men were having a 

 time to be certain that ihoy had a perfect square. They were measuring 

 from stakes, etc. I hapiioncd to remember that in geometry there was a 



