mit yourself to be influenced by the maxims of a low, sordid
prudence, which will be dinned into your ears wherever you go. Regard
the very suggestion that you shall coin your education, your high
ideals into dollars; that you lower your standards, prostitute your
education by the practise of low-down, sordid methods, as an insult.

Say to yourself, "_If the highest thing in me will not bring success,
surely the lowest, the worst, cannot._"

The mission of the trained man is to show the world a higher, finer
type of manhood.

The world has a right to expect better results from the work of the
educated man; something finer, of a higher grade, and better quality,
than from the man who lacks early training, the man who has discovered
only a small part of himself. "Pretty good," "Fairly good," applied
either to character or to work are bad mottoes for an educated man.
You should be able to demonstrate that the man with a diploma has
learned to use the tools of life skilfully; has learned how to focus
his faculties so that he can bring the whole man to his task, and not a
part of himself. Low ideals, slipshod work, aimless, systemless,
half-hearted endeavors, should have no place in your program.

It is a disgrace for a man with a liberal education to botch his work,
demoralize his ideals, discredit his teachers, dishonor the institution
which has given him his chance to be a superior man.

"Keep your eye on the model, don't watch your hands," is the injunction
of a great master as he walks up and down among his pupils, criticizing
their work. The trouble with most of us is that we do not keep our
eyes on the model; we lose our earlier vision. A liberal education
ought to broaden a man's mind so that he will be able to keep his eye
always on the model, the perfect ideal of his work, uninfluenced by the
thousand and one petty annoyances, bickerings, misunderstandings, and
discords which destroy much of the efficiency of narrower, less
cultivated minds.

The graduate ought to be able to rise above these things so that he can
use all his brain power and energy and fling the weight of his entire
being into work that is worth while.

After the withdrawal of a play that has been only a short time on the
stage, we often read this comment, "An artistic success, but a
financial failure." While an education should develop all that is
highest and best in a man, it should also make him a practical man, not
a financial fail