AM told that there be folks who pooh- LITTLE 

 pooh college training and sneeze on men- JOURNEYS 

 tion of a University degree. Usually these 

 good people have no University degrees, 

 but have been greatly helped by those 

 who have. 



Our David Harums are not college bred, a statement 

 which I trust will go unchallenged. 

 The true type of German student is made in Germany, 

 and when taken out of his native environment, often 

 evolves into something less beautiful. 

 His lack of worldly ambition is his chief claim to im- 

 mortality. His wants are few; he rises early and works 

 late; he is practical in his own particular specialty, 

 but often most impractical outside of it; he is plod- 

 ding, patient, painstaking and will follow a microbe 

 you cannot see, as Thompson Seton's hunter followed 

 the Kootenay ram. This simple reverence for the 

 truth this passion for an idea this desire to know 

 these things have given to the world some of its 

 richest treasures. 



We are aware of what the Rockefellers have done, 

 but we seldom stop to think of the unknown labora- 

 tory students, who made possible such vast and far- 

 reaching institutions as the Standard Oil Company, 

 the Amalgamated Copper Company, the Carborundum 

 Company, the Westinghouse Electric Company, and 

 the various beet-sugar factories, that give work to 

 thousands, and lift whole counties, and even states 

 from penury to plenty. 



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