28 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



or scientific, or whatever else there may he, must give way to the needs 

 of individual training. Ready-made clothing, even though it take the 

 form of heroic uniform, does not guarantee a fit. The needs of mod- 

 ern life demand actual fitting. The best training is that best adjusted 

 to our own individual needs. 



I am told that Colorado College is one of those which aspires to be 

 ' only a college, ' a thoroughly good college of course, but that she has no 

 thought of becoming a university. I do not learn this from my friend, 

 Dr. Slocum, and I know that his ambition is boundless. But whether 

 it be true or not, I am going to oppose the idea. She will be a uni- 

 versity before you know it. This Palmer Hall may be offered in evi- 

 dence that the college period is past. Colorado College has already 

 become a university. A university in embryo, perhaps, if you like, but 

 still with all the marks by which the university is known — as certain 

 to become a university in fact, as a pine seedling on your royal hills is 

 sure some day to become a pine tree. 



A university in America is a place where men find their life-work, 

 where men think lofty thoughts, where men test for themselves 

 that which seems to be true, where men go up to the edge of things 

 and look outward into the great unknown. 



The university does not consist of colleges and departments, deans 

 and dignitaries, rules and regulations. It is not a cluster of profes- 

 sional schools, nor even a group of graduate students. Its spirit is not 

 measured by printed theses, by elaborate examinations, by the number 

 of the hoods of black and gold its doctors are privileged to wear. Il i> 

 measured by the animating spirit, the spirit of intellectual enterprise, 

 of academic devotion. This spirit will in time create for itself the 

 brick and stone, test-tubes and microscope, book and manuscripts, all 

 the machinery with which a university must work. 



In the development of an animal there is a subtle influence, which 

 we can not measure, always at work, and working to the end that the 

 embryo becomes at last that which from the first it was fated to be- 

 come. We call this the influence of heredity, but to name it leaves 

 more to be explained than there was before. In like fashion, the spirit 

 of the university, the spirit of zeal and devotion, of beauty-loving and 

 truth-fearing which is in Colorado College to-day will make the uni- 

 versity an accomplished fact. Truth-fearing — there is no better phrase 

 — truth-fearing is the spirit of the university. 



There is no real difference between the American college and the 

 university, and there will never be any. The lower achievement lead- 

 to the higher ambition. Many colleges are little, or weak, or lean or 

 narrow universities; yet even the poorest of them may he hallowed by 

 some one's devotion, ennobled by some one's scholarship. It is scholar- 

 ship ami devotion which, in the long run. make (he university. Cer- 



