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Governor W. E. Stanley
David Starr Jordan
M.E. Ingalls
"No matter what salary you start on,
be sure to save some portion of it.
Save your money, put it out at interest,
get you a home and start in.
There is nothing gives a man so much respect as a little money laid by.
The young man who lays up nothing
is planting thorns, that, later on,
will tear and rend him."
Born in Maine, 1842; educated at Burlington Academy,
Bowdoin College and Harvard law school; lawyer in Boston and member of
Massachusetts legislature; since 1888 President of Big Four ft. R.; part
of that time President of C. & O. R. R.; a statesman, a lawyer, a
business man of great ability.
Alexander Kelley McClure
"Many men achieve what seems to be a great
success by questionable methods, but we overlook the fact that a very
large majority of the men who attempt to succeed in such a manner not only
fail, but make their lives disastrous failures.
'The demand is always greater than the supply for thoroughly honest and
faithful men with unflagging devotion to the principle of self-respect and
duty, and such men have a vastly better opportunity for success in life
than those who do not command public confidence."
Mr. McClure was born in Pennsylvania
and is for the most part self-educated.
Began his career as a tanner's apprentice.
As lawmaker, lawyer and editor
has usefully served.
After twenty-nine years
as editor of the 'Philadelphia Times,"
Mr. McClure retired to quiet life.
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THERE IS ONE single task, before the young man: to make himself the most perfect specimen of a man, in all the elements that enter essentially
into right character, and, while doing it, to help others as powerfully as possible to do the same thing. That task is not to achieve or acquire or possess something, but first of all to be something, as Matthew Arnold says--
"Not a having and a resting, But a growing and becoming;"
not to make a living-- to quote from Governor Russell of Massachusetts-- but to
make a life, while making a living; not solely to make money, but to make manhood, while making money; not to win fame, but to make a character worthy of fame; not to acquire power that always remains external to himself, and, therefore, may be lost, but to develop a personality, with an increasing and imperishable power of its own, to move upwards and lift others upward toward his own level; not to win a desirable place for himself, but to make himself worthy of a good place, whether it be large or small; not to make himself like any other man, but
like that ideal which God has in His mind for him and for no other.
Dr. H. Clay Trumbull wisely says: "Man's best work in the world is to be a man. George
Elliot says that the greatest gift a {18}heromakes to his age is to have a hero.
In Oriental usage it was common to designate a person's employment
or life work by expressing it by the relationship of sonship.
to be continued...
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