James was content to live on mush and molasses, pork and potatoes, since they came within his narrow means, and gave him sufficient strength to pursue his cherished studies.

Nor is his an exceptional case.

I have myself known college and professional students who have lived on sixty cents a week (how, it is difficult to tell), while their minds were busy with the loftiest problems that have ever engaged the human intellect.

Such boys and young men are the promise of the republic.

They toil upwards while others sleep, and many such have written their names high on the tablets in the Temple of Fame..