Self-Denial Builds Character
It is good to know that there are so many young men in the United States who are willing to deny themselves for the sake of something better. It is said that out of 12,366 students in the four largest colleges there are 3,123 who are working their way thru school while they study; more than one-third of the students at Harvard, and the same proportion at Yale and Pennsylvania, and more than one-fourth at Princeton work their way thru college. Such young men will amount to something. The young man who depends on the efforts of others, spends money, and is unwilling to deny himself, can in the very nature of the case never make the strong character of one who is willing to sacrifice the better for the best. It may be stated as axiomatic that there is no true character building apart from self-denial.