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furnished' man. Throughout, it should be remembered that college is 

 not intended only for those who look forward to professional life. 



And this means also a change in the preparation of men for college 

 chairs. Men go through college as specialists; they follow graduate 

 courses as specialists; they become college instructors as specialists. 

 Such training does not fit men for college teaching, however well it may 

 fit them for university teaching. Having never had symmetrical 

 mental training, they can not understand the true purpose of college 

 work, and they are liable to make the college student narrower than 

 themselves. There must be a return to the older type of professors, 

 men whose studies were not confined to the immediate area of their 

 chairs. We are accustomed to laugh at the notion that a college con- 

 sisting of a boy at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the other 

 was complete — and we are right; but the conception underlying that 

 notion is true in no small degree. The graduate of such a college had 

 learned to think and the information which he had received was 

 correlated, was his own. The writer reveres the memory of such a 

 teacher in his college, Benjamin IST. Martin, who, teaching philosophy 

 well, succeeded also in welding together for the student mathematics, 

 history and science into a well-related body of knowledge. His pupils 

 learned to think and, as far as in them lay, to think for themselves. 



Not the classics but the method of training made the men in the 

 older colleges; students learned to think and they were compelled to- 

 obey. They learned much of self-control in college — an easier school 

 than that of the world, where college students of to-day must learn 

 the same lesson — or fail. 



vol.. i.xiv.— 14. 



