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woman. For let it be said that if any college 

 student secures a diploma of any degree without 

 having been seized upon by a high ambition to 

 be of some use in the work of helping humanity 

 fo** ird, then have that person's years of study 

 been in vain, and his teaching also vain. The 

 college man comes not to be ministered unto 

 but to minister. He has been poorly taught if 

 he leaves college with no thought but for his 

 material success. He must have had a vision 

 of service, his lips touched with a coal from the 

 altar of social usefulness, and his heart cultivated 

 to respond to the call for any need he can supply, 

 "Here am I, send me." 



I think it may safely be said that there is no 

 field which offers better chance for leadership 

 to the average college man or woman than does 

 the farm. Take, for instance, politics. The 

 majority of our states are agricultural states. 

 The majority of our counties are agricultural 

 counties. The agricultural vote is the deter- 

 mining factor in a large proportion of our elec- 

 tions. It follows inevitably that honest, strong 

 farmers with the talent for leadership and the 

 ability to handle themselves in competition with 

 other political leaders have a marvelously fine 

 chance for useful service. 



