Charles Chapin Tracy, missionary, philanthropist, educator, first ...

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it will do the best service; that if it can produce such
men, it will produce great men."
SELF-HELP
The President, who prepared for college on the farm
and made his own way while a student, wanted to put
a man's chance in life before young men of honest hearts
but limited means. He did not want to make things
easy. He ever stressed the principle of self-help,
and welcomed students who were compelled largely to
work their own way. As he put the case:
" The objects of this department are principally:
\. To enable young men to obtain liberal education
through their own industry.
2. To develop manly self-reliance, avoiding the dan-
ger arising from too much direct aid.
3. To inculcate, in this land, the idea of the dignity
of labor, illustrating it by the example of the leading
youth.
4. To make young men more practical, capable,
inventive, facile in the use of tools, to secure thee,
against helplessness in every-day life and bookishness
as students.
5. To secure the tone that accompanies abundant
physical exercise.
6. To cultivate in the students and the community
a taste for advanced civilization, which is certainly
helped on by the general introduction of such furniture
as is manufactured.
7. To recover, by sales, as much as possible of ex-
pense in aid of students."