The Donaldsonville chief., 1912-01-06
PRESIDENT WATERS 70 BOYS
Head of Kansas Agricultural College
Makes Interesting Talk TO ssudenss
on "Opportunity."

President Waters of the Kansas Ag.
r1cultural college recently used the
following language in talking to the
students Of that institution:
You are willing enough to assume
| the entire responsibility for whatever
success may come to you, but you are
just as ready to lay the responsibility
Of your blunders and failures upon
someone else. Have the manhood,
then, to carry both, and have sense
enough to profit by both. A success
improperly utilized may be your un-
doing; a failure used in the right way
may contribute to your success more
than anything else that could happen
to yol
You may have asked yourself
whether you have not come upon the
stage Of action too late, after; all the
really great things have been discov-
cred or accomplished, and you may be,
wondering if there is left any task;
large enough to justify your present.
pains in preparation
"The truth is, this is the hour Of op-.
portunity, and I mean large opportu-
nifty. So long as famine stalks unhtn-s
dered through the most prosperous.
countries on the globe, and there are!
bread riots In every civilized land; So
long as the world lives from hand to
mouth. never having more than two
weeks food ahead; when such pros
porous and powerful nation as the
British empire must protect the trade
| routes from foreign countries over
| which come four out of every five
loaves Of bread her people eat, the
| question most fundamental to mankind
that of our feod supply-is far from
being settled, and will tax the ingenu-
| ity Of the best trained scientists and
economists that this or any other col
lege can furnish.
Thus far sh this age, which we
class as golden, we have been profit
gate OF natural resources Of every sort,
and our rrogres has been dearly
bought.
| "The problem of maintaining this
high standar0 of living will give en-
ployment to the best equipped engi-
neers and chemists. When, In the face
of abundans yields, the cost of living In
every lana has risen to the breaking
| point, there is room for all the help
that can he afforded by those trained
in the afss of science. Of home max
ing and home management.
| You need have no fear concerning
the magnitude or Importance Of the
work before you.
What may very proparly give each
of you and US the gravest concern is
1 whether you will be capable Of meas
artng up to the opportunities pre-
sented
IF you viii go out prepared to do
something, and do it right, the world
| will meet you more than half way and
| will cheerfully supply the chance"
A good many farm boys when they
come to town or otherwise get away
from home take vacation from church
assuming that the essentials Of life
may be different in the new environ
ment. To them President Waters
says:
| 1T is a mistake for you to suppose
that coming to college means reli-
gious vacation. You should go to the
church you attended at home. You
should not shut yourself away with
your books Join literary society.
Take reasonably active part in col
1ege life You are not here primarily
| to be a football player or college
rooter These things are incidental
important, but not to be thought Of as
against the things you came here to
do; to fit yourself for life; to study"