the road that leads to success lies through fields of hard, earnest and patient labor, it calls on the young man and woman put forth all energy, and bids him build well his foundation, go to success since it will not come to you, and [4] ]remember even as steel is tempered by heat, and through much hammering and changing original form, is at last wrought into useful articles, so in the history of many men do we find that they were attempered in the furnace
of trials and afflictions.
Let us then strive against despondency, even when the way before us is both dark and dreary it still is worse than useless to give away to despondency. Energy and proper afflictions may recover what you have lost;
take heart; pluck up courage; give not over to despondency;
by confronting the evils of life they will lose their force.
We are able to know today that intelligence
has awakened and spreaded out her hands, and from time immemorial
intellectual endowment have been crowned with bays of honor, men have worshiped at the sign of intellect with almost an eastern idolatry
, the world at large has crowned education with its richest honors,
its pathway has