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SUCCESS and its achievement must always be the all-absorbing personal aim of everyone who is 

 faced with the eternal problem " How to Live." In these days of rapid progress the slacker goes 

 to the wall, and many for want of proper guidance waste their lives in idle expectancy of better- 

 ment. In .1 few sentences we set forth some of the many ways in which you may be helped over 

 your difficulties by the Empire Correspondence College. If you have not yet made up your mind as 

 to 'your profession, the first difficulty is to decide which particular course you desire to follow. Here 

 we can serve you. 



If von will write stating the time per day you can devote to study, your age, the subjects you 

 ha\'e alread\ studded by way of education and the stage of proficiency you have attained in each, and 

 also the line of life in which you desire to seek success, you shall ha\'e, free, the best advice that we 

 can give you; and that will amount to the considered judgment of many who have spent their lives 

 in considering the wavs and means by which the youth of both sexes may be most surely helped to 

 success. If you refer to us in this matter we shall adx'ise a course that is well within your powers 

 in the time at your disposal. 



A time-table of work will be arranged for you, and you are recommended to adhere 

 Method strictly to it, remembering that it is steady, persistent effort that finally leads to great 



and useful accomplishment. " Perfection " must be your motto. Every branch of 

 of commerce and every profession is in dire ni.'ed of i]ualified helpers. Make yourself 



one of the live men or women for whom the work of the world is calling. You are, 

 Mudy. perhaps, met from tirne to time with the remark that certain professions are over- 



crowded, that there is no room for the worker in this, that, or the other line of 

 life. If that impresses you, think for yourself of the ca.ses you know where men frr>m small be- 

 ginnings, without capital or influential frienils, ha\e made their way in every walk of life — Mr. 

 Carnegie, you will rememJx-r, started life as a labourer; Sir Thomas Lipton, the personal friend of 

 the late King, began his career in a small shop in an obscure part of Glasgow ; Mr. John Burns 

 was an engineer. You start — or have the opportunity to start — with pro.spects of success vasrly 

 superior to anv of these men. 



Every lesson sent out to you is the epitome of the latest information axailahle on 



the particular subject dealt with. It is not an extract from a text-lxx)k, but the result 



Hints of the study of many text-books, plus personal daily cxxupation in the teaching 



1 of, and writing on, the subject. No pains are spared in the examination of the work 



you send in. We trust you to work the tests fairly, and we accept them and treat 



Helps. them as an honest effort. Our solutions are models of direct methods — time is the 



important factor of great success — it is the one element of life for which vou can get 



no credit. Unnecessary labour is, like procrastination, and to a greater degree than 



pjroorastination, the thief of time. Hence our first and last endeavour will be to teach \ou to arrive 



at your final and accurate results on a minimum of expenditure of labour. 



The personal element in the .system of instruction has the keynote of the success 

 The which has attended our work in the past ; and every .student of the College is earne.stlv 



requested to approach the Principal at all times in this spirit. 



t^ersonal It is a matter of pleasurable duty to anticipate ynur |iarti<nilar needs, .ind bv 



PI 1 our help to cement as between us and you a bond of personal friendship and regard 



which will link you (as it has done .so many pa.st pupils) to the College, and lead 



in your ca.se to that degree of proficiency which earns for our ]iupils the (X)ninienda- 



tion of employers wherever they go. 



It has been truly said that " Genius is the art of taking pains." // vou 'cilt on/v 

 take pains success is well within your reach, and the College does nut withhold its 

 aid when you have completed your studies, for we are always prepared to recommend 



Employment, proficient pupils, and have no difi'.culty in securing positions for them. The employer 

 of to-day realises more than ever tliat well-paid labrwr, if it be efficient labour, is 

 the only cheap lalx)ur that is worth cmijluv itig. [f you will qualify for the position 

 you desire you will not need to seek eni])loyers ; em])loyers will seek you. and thev will 



seek vrni tl'irougli our medium. 



Address : The Director, Empire Correspondence College, 143 Great Portland Street, London, W. 



