But, like many a modest man, he lacked the assurance to speak out.

He felt that up to the present the benefactors of the university had been men of an entirely different class from himself.

It was mother who solved the situation for him.
"Well, father," she said, "there's one thing I've learned already since we've had money.

If you want to get a thing done you can always find people to do it for you if you pay them.

Why not go to those lawyers that manage things for the company and get them to arrange it all for you with the college ?" As a result, Tomlinson had turned up at the door of the Skinyer and Beatem office.
* * * * * "Quite so, Mr.Tomlinson," said Skinyer, with his pen already dipped in the ink, "a perfectly simple matter.