YOUR OPPORTUNITY CONFRONTS YOU--WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT?
Never before was the opportunity of the educated man so great as to-day.

Never before was there such a demand for the trained man, _the man who can do a thing superbly well_.

At the door of every vocation is a sign out, "Wanted--a man." No matter how many millions are out of employment, the whole world is hunting for a man who can do things; a trained thinker who can do whatever he undertakes a little better than it has ever before been done.

Everywhere it is the educated, the trained man, the man whose natural ability has been enlarged, enhanced one hundredfold by superior training, that is wanted.
On all sides we see men with small minds, but who are well educated, pushing ahead of those who have greater capabilities, but who are only half educated.

A one-talent man, superbly trained, often gets the place when a man with many untrained or half-trained talents loses it.
Never was ignorance placed at such a disadvantage as to-day.
While the opportunities awaiting the educated man, the college graduate, on his entrance into practical life were never before so great and so numerous as to-day, so also the dangers and temptations which beset him were never before so great, so numerous, so insidious.
All education which does not elevate, refine, and ennoble its recipient is a curse instead of a blessing.