Never lose sight of your college vision.
Do not permit yourself to be influenced by the maxims of a low, sordid prudence, which will be dinned into your ears wherever you go.

Regard the very suggestion that you shall coin your education, your high ideals into dollars; that you lower your standards, prostitute your education by the practise of low-down, sordid methods, as an insult.
Say to yourself, "_If the highest thing in me will not bring success, surely the lowest, the worst, cannot._" The mission of the trained man is to show the world a higher, finer type of manhood.
The world has a right to expect better results from the work of the educated man; something finer, of a higher grade, and better quality, than from the man who lacks early training, the man who has discovered only a small part of himself.

"Pretty good," "Fairly good," applied either to character or to work are bad mottoes for an educated man.
You should be able to demonstrate that the man with a diploma has learned to use the tools of life skilfully; has learned how to focus his faculties so that he can bring the whole man to his task, and not a part of himself.

Low ideals, slipshod work, aimless, systemless, half-hearted endeavors, should have no place in your program.
It is a disgrace for a man with a liberal education to botch his work, demoralize his ideals, discredit his teachers, dishonor the institution which has given him his chance to be a superior man.
"Keep your eye on the model, don't watch your hands," is the injunction of a great master as he walks up and down among his pupils, criticizing their work.

The trouble with most of us is that we do not keep our eyes on the model; we lose our earlier vision.