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whack every plebeian head that failed to show me the deference 

 to which I felt a college man was entitled. 



Another of these false notions is the mistaken idea that a 

 college degree and a permanent income are synonymous terms. 



Another is the feeling of discouragement you will experience 

 when you return to your respective homes, and find that the boys 

 you left behind on the farms have farms of their own, and the 

 boys who drove delivery wagons have stores and warehouses 

 of their own. 



The advantage you have over the boys who stayed at home 

 and gained dollars, while you gained knowledge, is that they 

 have reached their limitations, while the educated man " trains 

 on," and his development here is his academic training for the 

 larger life beyond. 



Whatever the fates may have in store for you, rest assured 

 there is always vouchsafed to you God's greatest blessing to 

 man — the blessing of work! Love, laughter, and work! Oh } 

 blessed trinity of man's existence I 



A gentlemen recently wrote the Carnegie Steel Company in 

 behalf of a young friend who had just completed a course at 

 Princeton; he closed his letter by saying he felt certain his 

 young friend would give them entire satisfaction, as he was 

 a very sharp young man. 



The officer to whom the letter was referred returned it with 

 a memorandum across the bottom of the letter, saying, "The 

 Carnegie Steel Co. has no place for sharp men; what the com- 

 pany needs is broad men sharpened to a point." 



He that hath ears to hear, let him heat. 



If I were asked my personal viewpoint of life, I could best 

 express it in a beautiful prayer of Max Ehrman, in which he 

 «ays: 



Let me do my work each day; and if the 

 Darkened hours of despair overcome me, 

 May I not forget the strength that comforted me 



