Mr.Root recently said that if his close application to problems in his boyhood did nothing else for him, it made him careful about jumping at conclusions.

To every problem there was only one answer, and patience was the price to be paid for it.

Carrying the principle of "doing everything to a finish" into the law, he became one of the most noted members of the New York bar, intrusted with vast interests, and then a member of the President's cabinet.
William Ellery Channing, the great New England divine, who in his youth was hardly able to buy the clothes he needed, had a passion for self-improvement.

"I wanted to make the most of myself," he says; "I was not satisfied with knowing things superficially and by halves, but tried to get comprehensive views of what I studied." The quality which, more than any other, has helped to raise the German people to their present commanding position in the world, is their thoroughness.

It is giving young Germans a great advantage over both English and American youths.