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tain genuine attributes of the true university we may sec clearly in 

 Colorado College. For one thing, she is broad-minded. The hall we 

 dedicate to-day stands as one evidence of this, her fair library is an- 

 other, and still more cogenl the wide sympathies and helpful achieve- 

 ments of her professors. I believe most firmly in the educative value 

 of unlikeness in aim and thought. A man may be highly specialized, 

 he must be if he would succeed as an investigator; but a university 

 should be an all-around organism. The school of applied science, the 

 school of literary expression, should not stand apart from each other. 

 The engineering student is likely to become illiterate if he herds only 

 with his kind. He learns many lessons from the finer side of life, 

 from the student of Chaucer or Homer. The literary student tends 

 to become a dreamer or a prig if he is in touch with literary matters 

 only. From the fierce earnestness of the young engineer, whose whole 

 career depends on the soundness of his individual work, the student cf 

 the humanities gains most valuable lessons. 



For the same reason I believe in the coeducation of men and women. 

 They need not study the same things, though for the most part as 

 beauty is beauty and truth is truth, so mental accuracy knows no dis- 

 tinction of sex. But the influence of wise and cultivated women works 

 for manliness and refinement. The influence of hopeful and strenu- 

 ous men gives women's work a seriousness and sanity which is a fair 

 exchange for the other. Where coeducation is honestly and rationally 

 tried, it is no experiment at all. In the natural order of things, and in 

 the long run, the American university and every other real university 

 will be a school for men and women, opening its doors to all who can 

 use its advantages or who can share its ideals. 



Wherever there is a real scholar — independent, self-reliant, truth- 

 loving scholar — there we have a university. He gives the university 

 uplift, the university inspiration, the university ideal. If he has but 

 one student, that one is a university student. I do not know how many 

 such there be in the faculty of Colorado College, but there are some 

 I know; some peaks which catch the morning sun, and in the presence 

 of these we have the essential element of the university. 



In the American scheme of education, the college course is a period 

 of intellectual broadening. It makes men, while the university makes 

 -chnlars. The German university system admits of no college course. 

 The college is not the American gymnasium. The rigid drill of the 

 gymnasium, intense and narrow, gives way at once to the university 

 when any subject can lie pursued in any fashion or no fashion at all. 

 The gymnasium has cast iron walls. She takes no account of indi- 

 vidual differences; she will drill but not create. The university is 

 wide open, everything is at the student's hand: science, letters, art, 

 lust or beer. The student chooses for himself, and the university, as an 

 organism, is indifferent as to his choice. 



