of our American college graduates to study law! How many young men become poor clergymen by trying to imitate their fathers who were good ones; of poor doctors and lawyers for the same reason! The country is full of men who are out of place, "disappointed, soured, ruined, out of office, out of money, out of credit, out of courage, out at elbows, out in the cold." The fact is, nearly every college graduate who succeeds in the true sense of the word, prepares himself in school, but makes himself after he is graduated.

The best thing his teachers have taught him is _how_ to study.

The moment he is beyond the college walls he ceases to use books and helps which do not feed him, and seizes upon those that do.
[Illustration: Ulysses S.Grant] We must not jump to the conclusion that because a man has not succeeded in what he has really tried to do with all his might, he cannot succeed at anything.

Look at a fish floundering on the sand as though he would tear himself to pieces.

But look again: a huge wave breaks higher up the beach and covers the unfortunate creature.