pleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.
These names represent all the most conspicuous
of the hundred million people, who have lived
and died in America.. Of the fifteen thousand
one hundred and*forty-two . named, five thousand
three hundred and twenty-six are college men.
Probably two hundred thousand fairly
represents the number of college graduates
from the beginning of American history. Of
these five thousand, one in every forty, has
achieved a certain measure of fame. Of the one
hundred millions who have not been to college,
ten thousand, or only one in every ten thousand
has been equally successful. In other words the
college man has two hundred and fifty times the
advantage of his neighbor. Read the article in
the current (June) number of the Forum.
Who has the best chance of getting in the cy
clopedia? I predict that for the coming genera
tion it will not be the doctors and lawyers, cer•
tainly not the dry goods clerks and storekeepers.
The Philadelphia Press affirmed recently that our
country now has twice as many doctors as minis
ters, twice as many ministers as lawyers, and
alwitt three times too many lawyers.
Col. McClure in his commencement address at
this place two years ago, said that the printers in
the Times office, were earning better wages than
half the lawyers in Philadelphia. Robert P. Pot.-
ter, late superintendent of the census, states in
the Youth's Companion that he was deluged with
applications from "rising barristers" to do cleri•
cal work on the returns at fifteen or twenty dol
lars a week and adds that he found doctors by
the hundred, to go around from house to house
punching holes in the card relating to vital sta
tistics. Contrast with careers like these the sto
ries of Lewis Austin, designer of the great war
cruiser New*York, a young man of thirty-five; of
Elihu Thompson, the successful teacher and now
electrician of one of the greatest corporations in
the world ; of Nikola Tesla, only thirty.six today;
of Charles Hall, the college boy who created
THE FREE LANCE.
cheap aluminicum ; yes, even of Paderewski, the
youth who had courage to practice eight hours a
day; and of John Muir, the geologist, who knows
the glaciers of the Pacific slope as well as the
world of science knows his name.
Of course genius is an infinite capacity for hard
work, and the lesson of the nineteenth century
will be that hard work, applied to utilize the won
derful works of God about us, is grander far than
labor spent in taking care of other people's mon
ey, and appropriating other people's work.
M. J. T.
The lodg expected chess tournament between
Bucknell and P. S. C. came off on the rsth and
rfith of June, Wieland, '93, represented P. ,S. C.
playing one game each with Simpson, '95, Cre
gar, '95, and Maxey, '93 of the Bucknell club.
The first game was lost to Mr. Simpson, but the
second and third were won.
The first game is appended. A study of it
will show that had our representative not been
compelled to rely upon the actual gameS of the
contest for practice, we would have won all
three of the games. The move was limited to ref
minutes.
White—Wieland. Black—Simpson.
P—K4 I P—K 3
2 Kt—K B 3 2 P—Q 4
3 P—K . 5 (a) 3 B
4
.4 B—Kt 5 (ch) 4 B—Q 2
5 Q—K 2 5 Q -Q. Kt 3
6 Bx B (eh . 7 ) (b) 6 Kt x. B
7 P — Q 3 (c) 7 Kt—K 3 .
8 Castles 8 Kt—K Kt 3
9 P—Q Kt 3 9 K B—K 2
to P—Q B 4 to Q Kt x P (d)
xi Kt x Kt it Kt x Kt
12 0 X Kt
13 Q ---K Kt 3
14 Kt-Q 3
CHESS.
12 B—B3
13 BxQR
14 Q R—Q sq