Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — Why They Fail. [ARTICLE]

Why They Fail.

A number of students were refreshing themselves in a restaurant after several hours’ exhausting mental labor in calculating the chances of one ablebodied man batting a ball and another agile fellow catching it and putting out another one less agile. They had spent tlie iafternoon at a game of base-ball, and of course were greatly in need of refreshments after their exhausting occupation. During the evening the conversation turned on their college life and the application to their studies demanded by the faculty of those who would graduate with honor. The poor fellows who spent the afternoon in their rooms pursuing their „ studies preparatory to next day’s recitations and lectures were commiserated by these more easy-going students,, while the general sentiment of tho party was voiced by one of their number, who said: “I did not come to college to study—l came to be taught. ” The ; measure this young man takes of col-1 lege life and the opportunities which it j offers to those who rightly improve ; them is the key which - unlocks the secret of many a young man’s failure in life.— Lancaster (Pa.) New Era.