man who has spent eight years of his own time, considerable money and the best efforts of several Jearned faculties preparing himself as a veterinary surgeon, docs not dream of practising on the buffaloes and pigs of his native community. If he cannot get a post in the Ministry of Agriculture in which he can pen long advisory documents upon the theory of pig-breeding without the necessity of coming face to face with a pig, he will use all the influence of family and family friends to get him a nominal advisership in the Minis. try of Finance, or he will try to become editor of a subsidized newspaper, or have himself appointed a commissioner of foreign affairs in some provincial capital. Admirals become railway directors, lawyers become generals, engineers lecture on poetry, textile experts superintend mints, doctors of laws or letters advise Tuchung on high explosives and chemists seek poste as Government auditors. They don't do what they are qualified to do, but what they can easily get to do. They do not propose to work their way; they expect their degrees or influence to make places for them.
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