The audience was spell-bound as Meyers' interest in the
Old Horse and his jockey became so intense that he was
lost to all about him and was swinging tiround that
course, every power of body and mind bent on pushing
on to victory the Old Horse and rider. As the Old
Horse went round and round with mighty stride, so
Meyers' big body swayed rhythmically in hanuony
witJi the Old Horse, till in triumph he i>a8sed the goal.
Meyers too had reached a goal The people gathered
about the contestants and congratulated each one on his
part in the program. None were more warmly congrat-
ulated than Meyers. It was the first thing in the line
of school work, except in athletics, that he had ever
done for which he had received praise. His goal was



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tlLat he had become conscious that he could do things
other than athletics that were worth while.
His principal, teachers and schoolmates, and his
friends in the community, recognized the man they had
not known before.
The principal and teachers expected better class-
room work than he had done before and were not satis-
fied with his former standard. It is a great blessing
to young people to know that their friends expect a
good report of them in whatever they do. For a scholar
in the high school to feel that his principal, teachers,
and sehool-matcs, and his community friends, expect a
good quality of school work from him, is a wonderful
stimulus to his doing what is expected of him.
Meyers felt that he must meet these expectations.
Then too he now had faith in his ability to do better
school work than he had done and determined to do it.
