The time is fast approaching when those members of the senior class who are fortunate enough to be able to choose their future aim in life will necessarily be obliged to make some definite decision in regard to that matter. It may be another case of the blind leading the blind, if we venture to make any suggestions. Nevertheless, it may be well to call to mind a few well-known facts. The pursuit should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice of a profession. All about us we see men striving to become what nature never meant they should be. Accountants, who might succeed if they stuck to that for which they are fitted, become starving "poets." Men of good sense, capable of being good doctors or able lawyers, waste their store of intellect upon wretched attempts at humour. The most important thing has, in their choice, been disregarded.

The reason of this is, that men confound what they would like to be with what they ought to be. The great fear is that the pursuit they have chosen will in the future prove "uncongenial." But it is necessarily "uncongenial" sometimes to do the right thing in any sort of action, and it may unhappily be so in this case. The question that should be asked in deciding this matter is not "What should I like to do?" but "What ought I to do?" In answering this question we have but to glance at our degrees of success in the different things we have undertaken in our lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even if we have been really successful in nothing, there must be something in which we have proved more competent than in the rest. Perfect success is not necessarily the criterion. And if there seems to be no hope of that success in the future, if our capacities seem so limited in everything as to promise little hope of advancement in anything, we must do faithfully that which lies nearest us. "Tis not in mortals to command success,

But we'll do more, Sempronius, - we'll desire it."