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possess, when they realize their limitations, to feel that they 

 had the power to discuss the momentous problems of the day 

 with the educated and prominent men of the land, or could 

 at least carry on a pleasing conversation with men of deep 

 thought and keen perception. If in addition they can 

 acquire the ability to appreciate the best literary, musical 

 and artistic productions, the sacrifice is great that will not be 

 made for such an end. "The more one has the more one 

 wants," is strikingly true in educational circles, and it is a 

 question whether the average young man without a college 

 education feels more keenly his lack than does the young man 

 who has risen relatively higher, but has pursued a single nar- 

 row line, leaving out the subjects which tend to broaden his 

 views and to open for him vast possibilities in the world of 

 refinement and culture, because his absorption in the work of 

 his own special field has entirely shut them from view. When 

 he awakes to find himself far behind his more fortunate fellows, 

 then he catches glimpses of the great opportunities that might 

 have been his, had he but realized earlier the difference between 

 the educated man and the man whose whole aim and study 

 have been cramped into one narrow Hne. This is not saying 

 that the specialist is not needed, and to-day more than ever 

 before, but the specialist whose educational foundation is 

 broad and liberal, who is a well rounded man, who can appre- 

 ciate the necessity of, and understand, in a general way, the 

 work of others in fields which are possibly very remote from 

 his own, is a man of larger resources and possibilities, and is a 

 much greater power in the world than the mere specialist can 

 be. His own special line need not su-ffer @n account of his 

 broad conception of life and study, but on the contrary, the 

 deductions and results of his specialized efforts will bear a 

 truer and more direct relation to existing facts and conditions 

 than otherwise would be possible. The following words from 

 Bishop Henry Potter, delivered at the one hundredth com- 

 mencement of Union college, at Schenectady, carry out this 

 thought : "The time will never come when a man who has not 

 merely learned certain chemical combinations so that he can 

 manufacture a fertilizer, or certain mathematical combina- 

 tions so that he can build a railroad, but has also learned what 



