The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-07
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COL. ROOSEVELT
NOT |MPUlS|vE
He Thinks So Fast That People
Misunderstood Him, Says
Dir. Abbott.
ABLE ADDRESS TO STUDENTS
Veteran Editor of the Outlook
Tells Them Many True and
Pertinent Things.
ABLE ADDRESS TO STUDENTS

In spite of the very inclement
weather, large audience of students
and friends gathered In the Richmond
College chapel last evening to hear an
Informal talk by DIR. Lyman Abbott. the
veteran editor of the Outlook. He took
the broad subject of Life" for discus-
sion. He said in part:
"In college examinations are given
to you to find out what you know, but
your success in life Will depend upon
what you can do. What you know is
OF Importance to you, but what you can
do Is the important thing to mankind.
Not that l minimize knowledge or
money But like money, knowledge is
valuablc, as you can lind d. use for 1t.
In the medical colleges the students
learn the names of tile bones OF the
body. but il break my arm l do not
ask the doctor if he can rec.se the
bones of the body. but If he can set
an arm. or a lawyer we do not ask
what he knows of the celebrated
treatiscs on contracts, but IL he can
write contract which Will hold. or
a preacher We do not ask II he is a
learned theologian but If he can
preach. In fact we say OF q.
preacher that he is learned theologisn
we feel that he is being damned with
faint praise.
Tells Joke ON Himself.
II found that the work which | did
in college-now over fifty yeaH; ago
in one of the literary societies, was
worth more to me than any course in,
college. This was because l learned
there what could do. and the sevcrcst
critics In college are the other fel-
lows. had an ambition to be an
orator. then. have lost that ambition.
now, for whether | am talking to 100.
500 or 5000 try to talk to them as l
would to one man. l was proclaiming
how the pagan women throw their.
children into the Nile when meant
the Ganges. My opponent interrupted;.
Considerable OF a throw, wasn't itY
stopped and asked What's that
and he repeated in louder tone. Con-
siderable of a throw Then everybody
laughed. So now, when l make a mis-
take l keep right on, unless some one
would be injured by my mistake.
You must do something. You must
make success, Yet don't like the
word success;i 1T has been SO much mis-
used. We are apt to measure success
in dollars. What's a man WORTH we
ask, and the reply is so many dollars,
as though man could be valued as
pork Dollars arc for men and not
men for dollars
II want to speak now of some OF
the executive qualities which you must
have to succeed. The first of these Is
force, or vigor or enterprise. or energy.
We live in an age of steam and cleo
tricity. Perhaps YOU have heard that.
Well, YOU must work like a steam en-
gine. and think like lightning. 0lth
the telephone and telegraph men live
under pressure and think out in five
minutes what used TO take our fathers
five Years.
Men Not Unlike Horses.
You must have initiative, for many
men are like good horse--they can
pull Well after they are harnessed, but
they cannot put on the harness be
able to find your own jobs. Morgan,
Hartman, and Hill have found Jobs for
thousands of men, They are entitled
to a small commission. This has made
them wealthy, a young man Went to
a grocery store, and having spent all
his money for his nights lodging, he
asked to be trusted for box of brass
polish and he would pay for it in the
afternoon, Nearby he found brass
sign with two panels, He polished up
one and called the proprietor out and
asked him II he would give him five
cents for 1t, The proprietor assented
and added that lie would give him five
cents more to polish the other half
No. said the man, my price has gone
up to ten now
Then have persistence. or continu,
ance or no surrender, was at the
state Reformatory at Ilmira, n, ".
once, and asked superintendent
Brockaway what It was that brought
those mon there. He replied, Weak
will, You may suppose that the hand
of the criminal IS against every man
and every mans hand against him, but
it's erroneous, Its weak will, a
man has a Job. He gives it up TO get
an easier one and gives IT up in the
hope Of getting a still easier one, and
thus becomes q tramp. when he finds
that It Is easier 70 steal than to
tramp, and there you are
"Overcome obstacles, Thank God
when you arc 'up against II, as the
ieXpressiVe slang has II, Hard popnd-
ing. We II see who can poiind the hard.
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