To a large majority of men during the college course, and especially during the senior year, the ever recurring question is "What shall I make my life work?" Happy are those men who have a decided bent in some direction and who are never tormented by the thought of their future occupation. College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience of most students in the first years of their college course. Then follows, in the majority of cases, a wholesome belief in one's abilities. There are some, however, who never recover from the first rude awakening from their dreams of their brilliant possibilities. Because they cannot be first they will be nothing. If they have means to live upon, they will drift along in a life of cynicism and pessimism; if not blessed with wealth they will follow that occupation which offers them the means of subsistence with the least effort on their part. Had they only learned the lesson that man's happiness does not depend upon the height to which he rises, but to the well performance of that duty, however humble, which falls to his lot, they would have been happier men and better citizens.