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The keenest test of a man comes when he has attained ; the struggle 



to attain keeps him strong, but the Hne of least 

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resistance soon shows itseli in success. — Black. 



He that greets Hardship on the threshold of youth may find her 

 a cruel taskmistress, but still a friend. For it is her peculiar func- 

 tion to act as a nurse to the potential conqueror, that he may in the 

 end overcome her and turn her out of doors. Her discipline is rig- 

 orous, but they that in good time show her the door are a hardy 

 breed.— ^/ K. Li. 



Indifference to the magic of work, the potency of drudgery, is the 

 curse of too many College men. They want to fly before they can 

 creep; they want to be ten thousand dollar men before they are 

 thirty-cent apprentices. Not even College can teach the faculty of 

 absorbing worldly wisdom as a sponge drinks water. Worldly wis- 

 dom is a slow growth. You can't get it in the circus of society or 

 the pantomime of sport; you can't get it in the frivolities of pleasure 

 or the steeplechase of mirth; but you can get it in a man's work 

 among men and nowhere eise. — Glynn. 



The study of recent literature forces from us the question, why 

 so many students of the (chemical) science, leaving of course the 

 workers in color chemistry and in the synthesis of alkaloids out of 

 account, regard themselves as in duty bound to study the products 

 of the distillation of coal, the relics of a long extinct organic world, 

 and their derivatives, instead of turning their attention to the living 

 World which surrounds them. To invent new methods and to fol- 

 low their application in this region would surely not be less interest- 

 ing than the piling up of many-membered rings. — Lassar-Cohn. 



The meat of success is savorless without the salt of content. To 

 him that cannot look upon his treasures and the work of his hands 

 and say in his innermost conscience, ''It is good," there is no success. 

 Monumental achievements only madden by their f Utility if they lack 

 the approval of the still, small voice. In the last analysis the human 

 struggle is one for seif -approval. The problem of self-preservation 

 is readily solved by the majority of mankind. It is elemental and 

 comparatively easy. But the problem of winning self-approbation 

 — not the self-approbation of the shallow egotist, but that of the 

 wise, level-headed, introspective person — is elemental and stubbom. 

 He who has solved it is favored of the gods. — Em. Phatic. 



