GOSPEL OF THE SNOB

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1929, Page 6

GOSPEL OF THE SNOB

NEW YORK, June 0

Thackeray would have relished keenly the advice on How to be a Gentleman and Win Success in Life given by Professor Robert Rogers to the students of.the famous. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . \v nl: to. preach the gospel of being. a. snob,.'Vs lid Professor Rogers at a graduation banquet last night, and he, proceeded to utter the following precepts: — Ncv .'!• my a suit of clothes unless you can buy one with an extra pair of. trousers. Have the suit pressed every week. ' Never buy a pair of shoes unless you buy shoe-trees for,.them. Never wear.the,esame collar at night as you wore in the day. Marry the boss’s daughter instead off his stenographer. It is just as easy. Found a family that will be successful. Seek the leadership of the ruling classes; ambitious, aspiring men always marry a little higher in the social scale. Make up your minds that you are superior people. Get the better things and money to finance things that are worth while. Take the attitude that you are a damned sight better than other people. Take you cue from the bootlegger and the politician, and it will be. your own fault if in later years you are not of the ruling class. BRAINS AND WILL. 1 Professor Rogers warned his listeners that brains were less important to success than will-power, remarking that a second-class brain and a- firstclass will were better than a first-class brain and a second-class will. He gave as his final advice: “Join a good club, eat like a gentleman, and, above all, be with gentlemen.”