| Show doing ones best to the end by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK late dean of men university of illinois L I 1 thompson Is leaving you I 1 hear bear I 1 said to jones and going into an other line file ot of work how flow Is lie getting ont on I 1 had known thompson for or years and he seemed to me a b bright r I 1 g h t energetic 0 young fellow who ought to get some x w here lies lost all interest in his work jones replied lie knows he is not going to be with me jon longer ger than the end of the year ant anil he sees no reason for showing any initiative lie ile comes late pretty often he does no more than he be has to for he Is id not working for promotion and he feels sure that no matter how poorly he does we wont fire him it takes a pretty good man to do his best up to lie hie end of a job it was robert louis stevenson who I 1 believe said that if he knew he was to die tomorrow he would go on just the same writing his story finishing his book bonk striving to do something better than he had ever before done saunders who was entered in the two mile race could see before tie he had done a mile that he was outdistanced by half the fellows who were competing with him some of the men who were outclassed dropped out before they had completed the distance and lay on the grass to watch the finish not so BO saunders tie he kept on to the end and sprinted his level best at the finish ile he the ghost of a chance to win but he was a sportsman who gane gae the best that was in him to the last second some day hell win the race the last scholarship report showed that colllns collins was doing very poor work in his studies ne he had bad not previously been an honor student but he had at least done respectable work and I 1 wondered nhat hat could be the matter with him 1 I cant come back next semester he explained father thinks it wise for me to finish my course and so I 1 see any reason for working hard it if I 1 flunk out it cuts me no ice im not coming back anyway 0 1933 western newspaper union |
