student who has to quit school after leaving the

grammar-school.
Second: it offers a full college education, with

the branches taught in long-established high-
grade colleges, to the student who has to quit

on leaving the high-school.
Third: it offers further scientific or professional

education to the college graduate who must go
to work immediately on quitting college, but who

wishes to take up some such course as law or
medicine or engineering.

Out of last year's enrolment of 3,654 it is
interesting to notice that the law claimed 141;

theology, 182; medicine and pharmacy and dentistry
combined, 357; civil engineering, 37; also

that the teachers' college, with normal courses
on such subjects as household arts and science,

kindergarten work, and physical education, took
174; and still more interesting, in a way, to see

that 269 students were enrolled for the technical
and vocational courses, such as cooking and dress-

making, millinery, manual crafts, school-gardening,
and story-telling. There were 511 in high-

school work, and 243 in elementary education.
There were 79 studying music, and 68 studying to

be trained nurses. There were 606 in the college
of liberal arts and sciences, and in the department

of commercial education there were 987--for it is
a university that offers both scholarship and practicality.

Temple University is not in the least a charitable
institution. Its fees are low, and its hours are

for the convenience of the students themselves,
but it is a place of absoluteindependence. It is,

indeed, a place of far greater independence, so one
of the professors pointed out, than are the great

universities which receive millions and millions
of money in private gifts and endowments.

Temple University in its early years was sorely
in need of money, and often there were thrills of

expectancy when some man of mighty wealth
seemed on the point of giving. But not a single

one ever did, and now the Temple likes to feel
that it is glad of it. The Temple, to quote its

own words, is ``An institution for strong men
and women who can labor with both mind and

body.''
And the management is proud to be able to

say that, although great numbers have come from
distant places, ``not one of the many thousands

ever failed to find an opportunity to support
himself.''

Even in the early days, when money was needed
for the necessary buildings (the buildings of which

Conwell dreamed when he left second-story doors
in his church!), the university--college it was then

called--had won devotion from those who knew
that it was a place where neither time nor money

was wasted, and where idleness was a crime, and in
the donations for the work were many such items

as four hundred dollars from factory-workers
who gave fifty cents each, and two thousand dollars

from policemen who gave a dollar each.
Within two or three years past the State of

Pennsylvania has begun giving it a large sum annually,
and this state aid is public recognition of Temple

University as an institution of high public value.
The state money is invested in the brains and

hearts of the ambitious.
So eager is Dr. Conwell to place the opportunity

of education before every one, that even his
servants must go to school! He is not one of those

who can see needs that are far away but not
those that are right at home. His belief in

education, and in the highest attainable education, is
profound, and it is not only on account of the

abstract pleasure and value of education, but its
power of increasing actual earning power and thus

making a worker of more value to both himself
and the community.

Many a man and many a woman, while continuing
to work for some firm or factory, has taken

Temple technical courses and thus fitted himself
or herself for an advanced position with the

same employer. The Temple knows of many
such, who have thus won prominentadvancement.

And it knows of teachers who, while continuing
to teach, have fitted themselves through the Temple

courses for professorships. And it knows
of many a case of the rise of a Temple student

that reads like an Arabian Nights' fancy!--of
advance from bookkeeper to editor, from office-

boy to bank president, from kitchen maid to
school principal, from street-cleaner to mayor!

The Temple University helps them that help
themselves.

President Conwell told me personally of one
case that especially interested him because it

seemed to exhibit, in especial degree, the Temple
possibilities; and it particularly interested me

because it also showed, in high degree, the
methods and personality of Dr. Conwell himself.

One day a young woman came to him and
said she earned only three dollars a week and that

she desired very much to make more. ``Can you
tell me how to do it?'' she said.

He liked her ambition and her directness, but
there was something that he felt doubtful about,

and that was that her hat looked too expensive
for three dollars a week!

Now Dr. Conwell is a man whom you would
never suspect of giving a thought to the hat of

man or woman! But as a matter of fact there is
very little that he does not see.

But though the hat seemed too expensive for
three dollars a week, Dr. Conwell is not a man

who makes snap-judgments harshly, and in
particular he would be the last man to turn away

hastily one who had sought him out for help.
He never felt, nor could possibly urge upon any

one, contentment with a humble lot; he stands
for advancement; he has no sympathy with that

dictum of the smug, that has come to us from a
nation tight bound for centuries by its gentry and

aristocracy, about being contented with the position
in which God has placed you, for he points

out that the Bible itself holds up advancement
and success as things desirable.