The Thing to Do (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Thing to Do Before one word on the theme which has been announced, I want to express my grateful remembrance of the fact that this is the second, if not the third, successive year in which I have been invited to Vassar. Let me add the earnest hope that you may not repent of it before the evening is over, and conclude from this experience that, however it may be with a woman, it is always a mistake to give a man more than one chance to say Yes. The brilliant President of a great California University has defined Wisdom as "Knowing What to Do Next," and Virtue as "Doing It." Responding to the call with which the young ladies of the Phi Beta Kappa have honored me, I shall try to merit your attention by speaking to you for a little of "The Thing to Do." In proportion, then, to any success in saying the right word to you on this subject, that word must come, however unworthy the voice through which it speaks, as the counsel of Wisdom and the command of Virtue. The universal inquiry in the graduating class on Commencement Day is, What next? The mere man has no monopoly of it. The girl graduate too is absorbed in questions about what she shall do. Misty visions float before her eyes. Now, as always, the vague outlines are apt to shape themselves, to the first gaze alike of the simplest and of the wisest, into happy homes and home responsibilities. But in these days of broader horizons, many another purpose in life comes in to enlarge or to confuse the picture. Whether with the home or without a home, comes the thought of a career worthy of the capacities here discovered, the training here given; perhaps a literary, or artistic or scientific career, perhaps educational or professional, perhaps reformatory, perhaps social: but always a career, always the desire for a sphere in which to exercise the proper power of the trained abilities and enjoy their rightful influence, always the resolve to do something. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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