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Show Tough For the "Bright" Ones Many of the questions Mr. Ellison put at his candidates .'for "brightest boy" were not relative to the scientific. Take, lor instance: "If some acquaintance of yours unjustly accused you of i cheating, vh ,t would you do?' A boy worthy of being considered unusually bright would answer that what he would do would depend upon the i'ize of the ovher boy. Again : "When ('. you consider a lie permissible?" Dees Mr. Edison actually expect an unmarried boy to be qualified to gu'e. the correct answer to this? Another is this: "Which one of the following would you be willing to I sacrifice for the sake of being successful happiness, com- j fort, reputation, pride, honor, health, money, love?" i While Ibis is a question tending to disclose somewhat of the moral character of a boy, it has little or nothing to do i with brightness in science or invention. No boy has at all j txperienced streets or seen or read of a success that included , all of -t hose things. On the other hand, most of the men con- j aiderod to be great successes have been without- honor, or health, or money, or love, or happiness, often without two or J more of these possessions. Mr. Edison's own answer to this question would be most interesting. The greatest success of his times, what" of these things if any, would he have sacrificed, sacri-ficed, if necessary, to become what he is? 1 As a bright boy, he started without several of them. |