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the sympathy and ultimately the activity of the students in the cause of 

 social progress and public welfare. That the students recognize and 

 cordially respond to the changing tone of college instruction many 

 gratifying signs indicate. The excellent article in the number of The 

 Atlantic Monthly for November, 1911, on "The College: an Undergrad- 

 uate View " saves me from the need of bearing further testimony on this 

 point. If I might state the educational problem of the college in- 

 structor as it here presents itself to my mind, I should say: How can 

 the esthetic appreciations of adolescents be transformed into the ethical 

 judgments of the manly and womanly mind ? 



Naturally, in a really educational process such as I am briefly out- 

 lining the personality and ideals of the instructor must play a large 

 part, and the change in the social efficiency of the college toward which 

 some of us are groping our way seems to imply a shifting in the con- 

 ception of academic culture. It is difficult to arraign any type of cul- 

 ture, and almost ungrateful to imply that the eighteenth-century idea 

 that the finest type was secured by reading a little good poetry, hearing 

 some good music and speaking just a few words of sense daily is from 

 our present point of view untenable. A comparison of two Oxford men 

 of the nineteenth century, Lewis Carroll and T. H. Green, will help 

 me in my statement. Lewis Carroll was a thoroughly cultured gentle- 

 man, presentable in the best society, a delightful companion, an in- 

 genious writer, whose pages have delighted thousands in need of inno- 

 cent entertainment. In addition he was for long years a college 

 instructor and a contributor to the literature of mathematics. Green 

 was a man of different stamp. He lacked something of the grace and 

 charm of Lewis Carroll. He was less popularly known, but no less 

 socially important. His contributions to the literature of philosophy 

 were weighty. He was the leader of a great movement in the history 

 of the thought of our race. He exerted an immense influence on the 

 minds and conduct of the college men with whom he came in contact. 

 Through Mrs. Humphry Ward's presentation of him as the Mr. Grey 

 of " Robert Elsmere," he gained recognition with the reading public as 

 one of the great forces in modern social progress. Lewis Carroll was 

 extremely conservative, opposed to the rights of women, complacent 

 about children's acting on the stage, hostile to the advance of science 

 study at the university. Green succeeded in the conciliation of town 

 and gown, became a member of the municipal council, was instrumental 

 in establishing a local secondary school, and had his university duties 

 permitted it, might have become representative of the city in the coun- 

 cils of the nation. He extended his sympathy to the cause of human 

 liberty beyond the sea, and received the news of Gettysburg and Vicks- 

 burg with the enthusiasm becoming a large man. Can we not say that 

 he represents a type of culture as worthy as any, and increasingly de- 



