n comes from the social
intercourse of the students, the reenforcement, the buttressing of
character by association. Their faculties are sharpened and polished
by the attrition of mind with mind, and the pitting of brain against
brain, which stimulate ambition, brighten the ideals, and open up new
hopes and possibilities. Book knowledge is valuable, but the knowledge
which comes from mind intercourse is invaluable.

Two substances totally unlike, but having a chemical affinity for each
other, may produce a third infinitely stronger than either, or even
both of those which unite. Two people with a strong affinity often
call into activity in each other a power which neither dreamed he
possessed before. Many an author owes his greatest book, his cleverest
saying to a friend who has aroused in him latent powers which otherwise
might have remained dormant. Artists have been touched by the power of
inspiration through a masterpiece, or by some one they happened to meet
who saw in them what no one else had ever seen,--the power to do an
immortal thing.

The man who mixes with his fellows is ever on a voyage of discovery,
finding new islands of power in himself which would have remained
forever hidden but for association with others. Everybody he meets has
some secret for him, if he can only extract it, something which he
never knew before, something which will help him on his way, something
which will enrich his life. No man finds himself alone. Others are
his discoverers.

It is astonishing how much you can learn from people in social
intercourse when you know how to look at them rightly. But it is a
fact that you can only get a great deal out of them by giving them a
great deal of yourself. The more you radiate yourself, the more
magnanimous you are, the more generous of yourself, the more you fling
yourself out to them without reserve, the more you will get back.

You must give much in order to get much. The current will not set
toward you until it goes out from you. About all you get from others
is a reflex of the currents from yourself. The more generously you
give, the more you get in return. You will not receive if you give out
stingily, narrowly, meanly. You must give of yourself in a
whole-hearted, generous way, or you will receive only stingy rivulets,
when you might have had great rivers and torrents of blessings.

A man who might have been symmetrical, well-rounded, had he availed
himself of ev