This may be an imaginary address, since it contains the counsel which the writer, who is not a college president, believes that a college president should give to his students. As the chances are that the president would not find time to give this counsel to his students in individual conferences, and since it is the kind of advice and suggestion that should not be confined to the confidences of the closet, the article takes the form of an imaginary address to the whole student body. “Imaginary” in one sense, yes; perhaps even in the sense that very few college presidents ever do talk to their students after this fashion. But in content the address is eminently practical and realistic. It deals with the responsibility of thinking about, and choosing, and preparing for occupations in a far from imaginary world. And not only with vocational matters, but with life values which are inevitably associated with these matters. So here a college president talks to his students as they have a right to be talked to—and as their parents have a right to expect him