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Why selecting to come to S.I. has proved to have been a wise course (or “there is a destiny which shapes our end”):

1) Forgot K. -> Saw K.’s greatest imperfection -> met W.A. -> through him met B. -> through her have learned the desirability of living the fuller life.

2) Have gained two years’ college work which probably never would have attained otherwise.

3) Have made a rather enviable record at S.I.

4) Have gotten “away from home” for the first time.

5) Have made new friends and established a residence in a new locality where people have not known be all my life and have not seen me grow up.

6) Made a good connection with the Department of Justice, and glimpsed a happier life in secretarial work instead of newspaper work.

7) Broke away from the Monitor, thus escaping a “grindstone” existence, the muck of a political-war-torn country, and the possibility of being left jobless.