PRACTICALITY
A student of literature was hoping to become a poet someday. His literary hero was the renowned poet, T.S. Eliot. When the student graduated from Harvard, he went to see Eliot and asked him for some advice. Eliot said nothing for awhile, apparently deep in thought. Then he said to the eager young man: “Forty years ago I went from Harvard to Oxford. Now you are going from Harvard to Oxford.” Then, he paused again, and the student eagerly awaited to hear the great man’s words that he would remember for the rest of his life. Finally, Eliot put his hand on the young man’s shoulder and said, “Don’t forget your long underwear.” Sunday Sermons, Vol. 19, No. 4, July/August 1989.
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