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and on every occasion, be true to yourselves. And last: 

 Whatever you find to do in the world, give to it the best 

 that is in you and do it for all you are worth." 



Homely words, tersely expressed, but striking out 

 straight from the shoulder to the mark. What Christopher 

 North calls "A cut and thrust style, without any flourish. 

 Scott's style when his blood was up and the first words came 

 like a van-guard impatient for battle.' ' 



A man is judged not by the place he fills, but by the 

 way in which he fills it. He was an unknown quantity 

 so far as instructing was concerned, and when he found that 

 he really could teach, he suddenly woke to a consciousness 

 that life had a deeper meaning for him than he had ever 

 realized before. It was most stimulating to hear his enthu- 

 siasm over his new work. He went at it in the same con- 

 scientious manner in which he performed every duty, but 

 there was added to that a wondering delight in his new- 

 found powers. He studied international law — he worked 

 at constitutional history and called upon all the resources 

 of his previous years of reading American history to pre- 

 pare himself the better for the lecture room. In fact — 

 "his work at the college was so well done that it seems as 

 if he could sleep better in the soil of the town where he 

 did one piece of thoroughly finished work and for which he 

 is sure to be remembered." 



Rejoining his regiment in 1896, he served with it for 

 the next eighteen months at Columbus, Ohio. Then came 

 the call to arms and with it his appointment as quarter- 

 master, and the movement of the regiment to Tampa 

 and thence to Cuban soil. When they reached Baiquiri, the 

 regiment marched on and he was left to unload the stores 



