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Show COURAGE T3UT the thirgs courage can do!" D Barrie says, "The things even Incompetence can do, If it works with singleness of purpose." The one thing Carlson wanted was a chance to go to college, and yet there had never been anyone to encourage en-courage him. His people were illiterate illiter-ate and unambitious, he had no money, he hud never even been to high school, for he was forced to go to work before be-fore he was fourteen hard work, too, that left him bruised and exhausted. And yet always there burned In him the one desire, the one purpose of getting get-ting a college degree. "You cannot meet the entrance requirements," re-quirements," the college officials always al-ways replied when he tried through Interviews or correspondence to find a jvay within the academic circle. "Give me a chance," he begged; and finally, after he was twenty-one and bad saved a few dollars, he was given an opportunity as a special student stu-dent to tnke up college work. No one ever knew how he got on. He came and went every day across the campus; he earned his living as other eager students did, washing dishes or waiting tables, or in the performance per-formance of simple tnsks about the town. He was cheerful and happy In the thought that he was having a chance to accomplish the Impossible. And all the time he was getting on. He was making up his entrance cred- its, he was passing studies with credit to himself, he wos getting neorer and nearer to a degree. He reached his Ideal, he got his diploma, and now he Is out in the world an honored and a successful engineer. It was singleness single-ness of purpose that brought htm success suc-cess In spite of his ill-training and Incompetence. It was courage that helped hlni to accomplish the impossible. impos-sible. Today Strong was in my office. He lias plenty of money, he has a good body, he has a normal brain, and he has as excellent a high school training as a boy can get. Yet he has not passed Ave hours. He doesn't like his work, he says. If he could Just get Into something interesting he is sure he would get on. "Bet the things counge can dol" |