CHAPTER V 

 CULTURE FROM THE CORN LOT 1 



The question of questions that the college 

 student asks himself is, What am I going to be ? 

 The surface query is, What am I going to do? 

 But in his heart of hearts he ponders the deeper 

 questions: What may I become in real intellec- 

 tual and moral worth? How large a man, 

 measured by the divine standards, will it be 

 possible for me to grow into ? 



These are the great questions because growth 

 is the great end of life. That is what we are 

 here for, to grow. To develop all our talents, 

 all our possibilities, to increase our native 

 powers of body, mind, and soul this is life. It 

 is important that we have a vocation. We must 

 do something, and do it well. But the real end 

 is not in working at a profession but in develop- 

 ing our abilities. Our symmetrical growth is 

 the measure of our success as human beings. 



As the student looks out over the ocean of 

 life and scans the horizon for signs of the wise 

 course for him to take, he should decide whether 



1 Addressed to students in an agricultural college. 

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