204  Notes  on  the  New  Pharmacopoeia.      { Am  May?i906arm" 
them  a  part  of  yourself ;  and  nothing  short  of  this  will  satisfy  the 
Faculty.    Nothing  short  of  this  should  satisfy  you. 
To  those  who  are  laboring  under  the  opposite  impression,  namely, 
that  the  work  will  be  so  hard  that  only  bright  students  can  master 
it,  let  me  say  that  this  view  is  also  wide  of  the  mark.  For  thirty 
years  I  have  been  teaching  in  this  College,  and  I  have  seen  students 
who  are  anything  but  bright  make  a  most  creditable  record  in  their 
various  branches  of  study.  I  have  seen  the  fable  of  the  hare  and 
the  turtle  verified  many  times,  the  quick  fellow  coming  in  behind 
the  slow  one.  Patient,  persistent  application  has  often  achieved 
more  under  my  observation  than  brilliant  abilities ;  but  this  has 
called  for  self-denial  and  effort ;  and  when  these  have  been  duly 
exercised,  the  result  has  been  success. 
Two  men  have  been  before  the  world  the  last  few  months,  perhaps 
more  than  all  others,  President  Roosevelt  and  Admiral  Togo. 
Neither  of  them  would  have  been  where  he  is  now,  neither  of  them 
would  have  rendered  to  his  country  the  invaluable  services  which 
he  has  given  but  for  the  fact  that  both  of  them  exercised,  in  their 
early  career,  a  remarkable  degree  of  self-denial.  When  President 
Roosevelt  was  a  youth,  he  was  handicapped  by  poor  health.  He 
had  wealth,  and  might  have  indulged  himself,  as  most  wealthy 
invalids  do,  but  he  preferred  to  make  a  vigorous  effort  to  overcome 
his  disability.  He  took  up  the  life  of  a  cowboy,  exposed  to  heat 
and  cold,  fatigue  and  hunger,  and  everything  from  which  the  ordi- 
nary invalid  would  shrink.  The  luxuries  of  the  table,  of  the  cosy 
home,  of  the  downy  pillow,  and  all  the  coddling  which  he  might 
have  had,  if  he  had  given  way  to  his  infirmity,  he  threw  aside.  By 
roughing  it,  as  we  call  it,  for  several  years,  he  became  strong  and 
vigorous.  He  found  more  real  pleasure  in  the  strenuous  life  than 
in  one  of  ease  and  indulgence.  The  result  was  that,  when  he  went 
back  to  the  activities  and  strain  of  city  life,  he  was  hardy  enough  to 
undertake  them.  His  whole  life  from  that  date  to  the  present  has 
shown  us  that  it  is  possible  to  make  a  vigorous,  hearty,  cheerful, 
buoyant,  strenuous,  energetic  man  out  of  an  invalid.  When  he 
departed  for  Wyoming,  he  went  to  prepare  himself  for  his  life's 
work,  and  no  adequate  preparation  can  be  made  by  any  young  man 
for  a  career  of  great  activity  without  self-denial  and  effort;  but 
these  will  overcome  almost  all  obstacles. 
It  is  possible  that  President  Roosevelt  had  extraordinary  natural 
