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says that an American resident of Berlin was annoyed by one of these 

 men coming to him wearing a silk hat and kid gloves too big. When 

 this common-sense American subject suggested to him that he had better 

 go to work, he indignantly replied that that would not be in keeping 

 with his social standing. What do you suppose Prussia is doing to 

 diminish the number of beggar graduates? Having fewer higher scholars, 

 less of those higher scholars that can't be employed in keeping with 

 their social standing. 



I do not think we have acquired that class in this country, and yet 

 we have enough people who have been educated away from their in- 

 dustry, away from work, who have been so educated that their business 

 is to receive, to take in the good things and enjoy them rather than to 

 give to others. Not long ago the question was asked, " What would you 

 do with $460,000,000; would you establish libraries or found univer- 

 sities?" And he answered his own question by saying he would do 

 neither, but would build free soup houses for educated people whose 

 tastes are 'so that they cannot engage in ordinary occupations. So we 

 have some of that class in this country, but we do not propose to dimin- 

 ish the class by refusing to educate. We propose to educate in a dif- 

 ferent way. We propose to educate toward useful activity. 



It is estimated in a recent editorial in the Chicago Tribune, out of 

 a total of 4,000 or 5,000 who are handling the litigations of the city, 

 there is not enough law business to go around and the young lawyer 

 who is not unscrupulous enough to make law business is obliged to eke 

 out business by selling insurance and real estate on commission. There 

 are estimated to be about 4.000 physicians in Chicago for a population 

 of two million — a physician to every 500 inhabitants — four or five times 

 more physicians than are needed. 



I am going to read what Dr. Harper said to the graduates on grad- 

 uation day. It has already been told here in Champaign, but will bear 

 repetition. This is quoted from Prof. Harper himself in his address to 

 the graduates. " You who are entering the world will find that poverty 

 will be the strongest opponent to overcome. You who are about enter- 

 ing life need only to look at the papers of today to find the average lawyer 

 does not earn his salt. Those who will become physicians will find for 



