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Show OR. WHEELER ON SOWING WILD OATS President of University of California Says Those Who Do if Will Keep on Doing It. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 30. "It Is perfect per-fect nonsense to say that a man must sow his wild oats," declared Dr. Benjamin Ben-jamin Ido Wheeler, president of the University of California In an address to tho local branch of tho Young Mens Christian association yesterday . "Thoso who start sowing wild oats keep on sou Ing thorn .Not in ono case out of n hundred has a young man started on this free nnd easy path nnd sobered nnd taken up tho great work of llfo later on." Having thus shattered ono time-honored notion with tho facts learned In 30 years' study of men's careers, Dr. AVhoclor proceeded 19 attack another. an-other. "Getting rich Is no success; It Is a great nnd Inglorious failure," ho said. "After a man has worn out Ills fingers fin-gers getlng his hoard together he dies, and what he has accumulated ho must loavo behind him. A mnn such as this Is n fool and blind to (ho great things of life. "Life should, bo, taken seriously always. al-ways. Even tho boy and the young, man .should avoid tho inessentials. Hc 6houId"groV, and' tho- only way to growMs' to make a concentrated effort to learn tl'10 things of life that nre worth' while. , "Itead goodtbook$, Read history, lihllosqphy and natural sciences. Fiction Fic-tion Is worse han uselessWor thd iFt-tle iFt-tle excitement you get out of' It you are- wasting your' time." Knovlpdge gives depth o.lifp, and, HkAji.nlciro, life must, havq depth '" Jt l8 to u railed successful.," |