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Nearly one hundred thousand students, and in the lifetime of the founder! NEARLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND STUDENTS AND IN THE LIFETIME OF THE FOUNDER
nother while we became a university. From the first our aim”--(I noticed how quickly it had become “our” instead of “my”)--“our aim was to give education to those who were unable to get it through the usual channels. And so that was really all there was to it.” That was typical of Russell Conwell--to tell with brevity of what he has done, to point out the beginnings of something, and quite omit to elaborate as to the results. And that, when you come to know him, is precisely what he means you to understand--that it is the beginning of anything that is important, and that if a thing is but earnestly begun and set going in the right way it may just as easily develop big results as little results. But his story was very far indeed from being “all there was to it,” for he had quite omitted to state the extraordinary fact that, beginning with those seven pupils, coming to his library on an evening in 1884, the Temple University has numbered, up to Commencement-time in 1915, 88,821 students! THE FIRST OUR AIM I NOTICE HOW QUICKLY IT HAD BECOME OUR INSTEAD OF MY OUR AIM WAS TO GIVE AN EDUCATION TO THOSE WHO WERE UNABLE TO GET IT THROUGH THE USUAL CHANNELS AND SO THAT WAS REALLY ALL THERE WAS TO IT THAT WAS TYPICAL OF RUSSELL CONWELL TO TELL OF BREVITY OF WHAT HE HAS DONE TO POINT OUT THE BEGINNINGS OF SOMETHING AND QUITE OMIT TO ELABORATE AS TO THE RESULTS AND THAT WHEN WE COME TO KNOW HIM IS PRECISELY WHAT HE MEANS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS THE BEGINNING OF ANYTHING THAT IS IMPORTANT AND THAT IF THE THING IS BUT EARNESTLY BEGUN AND YOU SET IT ON THE RIGHT WAY IT MAY JUST AS EASILY DEVELOP THE BIG RESULTS AS LITTLE RESULTS BUT HIS STORY WAS VERY FAR FROM BEING ALL THERE WAS TO IT HE HAD QUITE OMITTED TO STATE THE EXTRAORDINARY THOUGHT THAT BEGINNING WITH THOSE SEVEN PUPILS COMING TO HIS LIBRARY IN THE EVENING IN EIGHTEEN EIGHTY FOUR THE TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HAS NUMBERED UP TO THE COMMENCEMENT TIME IN NINETEEN FIFTY EIGHTY EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE STUDENTS
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