A liberal education ought to broaden a man's mind so that he will be able to keep his eye always on the model, the perfect ideal of his work, uninfluenced by the thousand and one petty annoyances, bickerings, misunderstandings, and discords which destroy much of the efficiency of narrower, less cultivated minds.
The graduate ought to be able to rise above these things so that he can use all his brain power and energy and fling the weight of his entire being into work that is worth while.
After the withdrawal of a play that has been only a short time on the stage, we often read this comment, "An artistic success, but a financial failure." While an education should develop all that is highest and best in a man, it should also make him a practical man, not a financial failure.

Be sure that you possess your knowledge, that your knowledge does not possess you.
The mere possession of a diploma will only hold you up to ridicule, will only make you more conspicuous as a failure, if you cannot bring your education to a focus and utilize it in a practical way.
_Knowledge is power only when it can be made available, practical_.
Only what you can use of your education will benefit you or the world.
The great question which confronts you in the practical world is "What can you do with what you know ?" Can you transmute your knowledge into power?
Your ability to read your Latin diploma is not a test of true education; a stuffed memory does not make an educated man.

The knowledge that can be utilized, that can be translated into power, constitutes the only education worthy of the name.

There are thousands of college-bred men in this country, who are loaded down with knowledge that they have never been able to utilize, to make available for working purposes.

There is a great difference between absorbing knowledge, making a sponge of one's brain, and transmuting every bit of knowledge into power, into working capital.
As the silkworm transmutes the mulberry leaf into satin, so you should transmute your knowledge into practical wisdom.
There is no situation in life in which the beneficent influence of a well-assimilated education will not make itself felt.
The college man _ought_ to be a superb figure anywhere.