ng with his convictions. He could stand alone, if
necessary, with all the world against him. His inconsistencies, his
many changes in parties and politics, could not destroy the universal
admiration for the man who stood for his convictions. Although he
escaped from a German prison and fled his country, where he had been
arrested on account of his revolutionary principles when but a mere
youth, Emperor William the First had such a profound respect for his
honesty of purpose and his strength of character that he invited him to
return to Germany and visit him, gave him a public dinner, and paid him
great tribute.

Who can estimate the influence of President Eliot in enriching and
uplifting our national ideas and standards through the thousands of
students who go out from Harvard University? The tremendous force and
nobility of character of Phillips Brooks raised everyone who came
within his influence to higher levels. His great earnestness in trying
to lead people up to his lofty ideals swept everything before it. One
could not help feeling while listening to him and watching him that
_there_ was a mighty triumph of character, a grand expression of superb
manhood. Such men as these increase our faith in the race; in the
possibilities of the grandeur of the coming man. We are prouder of our
country because of such standards.

It is the ideal that determines the direction of the life. And what a
grand sight, what an inspiration, are those men who sacrifice the
dollar to the ideal!

The principles by which the problem of success is solved are right and
justice, honesty and integrity; and just in proportion as a man
deviates from these principles he falls short of solving his problem.

It is true that he may reach _something_. He may get money, but is
that success? The thief gets money, but does he succeed? Is it any
honester to steal by means of a long head than by means of a long arm?
It is very much more dishonest, because the victim is deceived and then
robbed--a double crime.

We often receive letters which read like this:

"I am getting a good salary; but I do not feel right about it, somehow.
I can not still the voice within me that says, 'Wrong, wrong,' to what
I am doing."

"Leave it, leave it," we always say to the writers of these letters.
"Do not stay in a questionable occupation, no matter what inducement it
offers. Its false light will land you on the rocks if you follow it.
It is demoraliz