Poverty under most of the conditions in which we find it in colleges is a spur.

Dartmouth College, I think, furnishes a good example.

The greater part of its patronage is from poor men.
Without examining the statistics, I should say, from facts that have fallen under my observation, that a larger percentage of Dartmouth men have risen to distinction than those of almost any other American college." The opportunities of to-day are tenfold what they were half a century ago.

Former President Schurman of Cornell says of his early life: "At the age of thirteen I left home.

I hadn't definite plans as to my future.