The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-26
THE ALL HALLows STUDENT.

stic or quality young ought to cultivate IN
order to succeed in life?" Well, it's not easy to
satisfactorily answer young friends inquiry,
for many men who have succeeded in life differ
among themselves as to the principal requisite for
success in life After years of association with
of all degrees, professions and walks in life,
and of much travel we, ourselves, of the opinion
that, given good health, good habits and fair ed
ucation, "thoroughness" is the watchword of pros
perity. And, we say to this student of All Hallows
College that if you ambitious to get in the
world, the tuning fork of success sounds simply
this note 'Be thorough" We are living in all
age when it is necessary to be thorough; in age
which has tendency to be small, himsy and super
fetal, rather than solid and sure We are living
in an age which demands sermonettes that is, short
religious nothings and condemns sermons and
which In our newspapers wants paragraphs rather
than editorials; in an age which builds and manu-
features to SELL not to last; which write notes and
not letters and which, even in education, is
ming and not forming character drawing out
what is best in our boys and girls.
Today, unhappily, we think more of manuels
and dictionaries fat with quotations, with hand
books and readyreckoners, than the good old books
our forefathers used to read. Ours is an age of
criticism rather than correction, and of destruc-
ton rather than construction. In such an age and
with our surroundings it is hard to be thorough,
but advise our young friend to be thorough in
his reading, and to read good books rather than
easy books, and standard books rather than mag
azne articles; to read thoroughly, with pencil in
hand for annotating, and to carefully digest and
assimiate what he reads; for, remember the old
saying: It's not what. you see, but what you OBJ
serve; not what you earn, but what you spend; not
what you eat but what you digest
If we only cultivated the power of concentrating
thought would have great many more skilled
and expert minds in the professions and in every
branch of learning. We urge our young friend to
be thorough in his work. and in his religion for
the thorough man, in time, becomes the indepen-
dent man. And of the glorious privilege of being
independent" here is what an honest man who felt
the kick and cuff of humiliation, wrote:
Catch dame Fortunes tickle smile,
Assiduous wait upon her.
Gather gear (money) by every vile,
That's justified by honor.
Not for to hide it in ditch,
Not for train attendant,
But, for the glorious privilege
Of being Independent"
1t does not matter much what your future work
may be, so long as it is honest work. Honest work
is Gods work of whatsoever kind it may be. Again,
remember that the religon-we do not say church
which does not effect our whole life is "for us"
worthless, and often ends in sham and infdelity;
therefore we say to you young gentleman, be thor
ough in your studies, be thorough in your work. be
thorough in your religion. And here is something
one of Kipling's very latest-which tack
to this advice we have given and which is worth
reading:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, and blaming it you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubling too;
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about don't deal in lies
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings7nor lose the common touch;
# neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none too much;
# you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth, and everything that's in it,
And, what is more, you'll be a man, my son!