12. In early life did you have regular tasks which involved manual labor ? If so, for the sake of possible 

 help to others, please state anything you are willing to say about the kind of labor and its effect 

 upon your character and habits 



13. Influence of your mother; was it particularly strong on your intellectual life, or on your moral and 



spiritual life, or on both ? 



14. Did you have difficulties to overcome in acquiring an education ? 



15. Please name the books, or the special lines of reading, which you found most helpful in fitting you 



' "J for your work in life., 



16. What preparatory school or schools, or colleges, did you attend ? From what college, technical school 

 or university were you graduated, with date and degree, if any ? 



17. Honorary degrees you have received, with name of institution and date when conferred 



18. When, where and in what capacity did you begin the active work of life? 



19. Did the wishes of parents or relatives, your own personal preference, or circumstances, determine the 



choice of your occupation or profession ? 



20. Please state by arrangement of letters the relative strength of influence of home (a), of school (&), of 



early companionship (c), of private study (d), of contact with men in active life (e), upon 

 your own success in life 



21. Please give places and dates of successive industrial or professional positions which you have held, 



and with what corporations or institutions 



