It is part of the compensation of life that nearly every dark cloud of
disaster or disappointment has a fringe of light under it. An instance
of this is seen in the career of Senator Beveridge:
It was a joke that sent United States Senator Beveridge, of
Indiana, into public life instead of into the army. He took the
competitive examination, but at a critical moment he laughed at
another boy’s sportive remark and failed to pass by the smallest
fraction. We are told by one chronicler that young Beveridge was
so badly upset when the news reached him on the street that he
had failed to pass that his distress was mirrored on his face so
plainly that a passing acquaintance stopt to ask him the cause,
and was himself so touched that he forthwith offered to advance
him the money necessary to start him in college.
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=Failure Made a Success=--See SAGACITY SUPPLEMENTING SCIENCE.