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 athletic event or at home during the summer going to church with mother; he had played the game honestly with himself and with the college.

You who are going out into the world will not find it all a flower-bordered path. For you there will be, I have no doubt, often the dark valley and the steep rocky hills. Go to your work with honest hearts, with eagerness to struggle, with courage and hope in your success. If you fail at first or if your progress is slow, do not despair. You have youth, and strength, and training, and if you have in addition ideals and faith in yourself, you will succeed, and you can look back as the years follow each other rapidly to a happy, successful Commencement.

June