The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-01

was a hard one, all right, but you
know | had one Just like that In class
once, and the professor gave me such
a scoring because failed on 1t, you
don't catch me on that kind of
question again" And do you know |
that he felt wee bit of a wish in his
heart that he had failed once before
on all the others, so that he would |
know that he was right now. 1t was
through failure that he became strong !
and made himself confident and made !
him more useful. l could tell you
many cases in my own teaching exper- |
fences, but / fear that | shall tres
pass too much upon your time. But
will tell one other. / went into the
laboratory and saw student busily
engaged in making a blow pipe test
of a mineral. | watched him. !
looked at his record on the record
sheets that had been provided, point
ed to an entry that he had made, anil
said, read that again and you will
find that you are wrong" | explained
It to him little, and he went to work
| left him. came back in the course
Of ten or fifteen minutes and found
him busily engaged over 1t with an
eraser, rubbing and scrubbing, as II
he were cleaning it. | asked him what
he was doing. He said, Il am rub
bling it out" ! said, "why?" He re.
piled, because it is wrong" l said,
What do you intend to do?" He
said, 81 intend to make 1t right"
said, my young friend, you tell me
what you are intending to do. You
are intending to make people believe
a great big no such thing" you
can call 1t by another word, II you
want to. But that is what you are
trying to do. You are trying to make
that paper show that you did not
make the mistake when you did. You
are trying to make that paper show
that you did not fall into that blum
der, when you did. Why, I knew you
would make 1t. And l intended that
you should. selected that mineral
myself, because / intended that you
should have a chance to fail on It.
Nine out of ten will fail on it. !
would rather you make the failure
when you have friend by your side,
and who knows Of your failure and
who can help you out. You were
trying to make that record show that
: did not succeed in what I did, but
id. | planned it so that you should
fail on 1t, to have you make that
: mistake and rectify 1t, and learn how
e &C do it right" o, the weakness OF
3 man, that he wishes IL to be believed
e that he never failed. How many Of
us, If we could go back and write ou'
diaries day after day, for forty OIL
fifty years would tell the truth,
How many of us could dot it. Why, the
little failures we made then are wortl
u the record, the little mistakes tina
have contributed to the success tina
e has attended us later. Are you SURF
IL that you have the right standard o
% success? Suppose vote had beef
e called for at the time of the enact
III ment of the dreaded tragedy on Cal
e very when the Christ was put i,
ii death? Suppose the world had votec
Ie as to the result of His work? Wha
would have been the verdict? VIVA
II would have been the vote? His fol
ID lowers had been scattered. He ha,
III been prosecuted. He had gone to
III death that was considered the mos
o. ignominous possimle. Would not tn
H. verdict have feen failure" Tha
IL failure is the most astounding success
u the world has ever known.
~ You go out into the world unde
~ the most pleasing conditions wit
work well done, with the good wishe
and faith of friends, well equipped TO
VI that which lies beyond. Make goo
" the record. II may be that you cal
net see far enough ahead to give 20
" satisfaction, for that which before 20
lies in daily life. 1t may be that 20
cannot see far down the track. d
:" you know the headlight on an engin
= in black night lights up about
W hundred yards? l heard one grea
engineer, whom | questioned on tn
matter once say, do you know tina
| have never been able to make ths
old engine go so fast that it got ahea
-. of its light. Always the track is ligh
ed up for a good hundred yards"
NC remember sat down and pondere