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be placed the rapid growth of the great institutions 

 of learning in this country. There is a twofold side 

 to the work done in any institution of this kind. 

 In the first place the institution is to turn out schol 

 ars and men proficient in the different technical 

 branches for which it trains them. It should be 

 the aim of every university which seeks to develop 

 the liberal side of education to turn out men and 

 women who will add to the sum of productive 

 achievement in scholarship; who will not merely 

 be content to work in the fields that have already 

 been harrowed a thousand times by other workers, 

 but who will strike out for themselves and try to 

 do new work that counts ; so in each technical school 

 if the institution is worthy of standing in the front 

 rank, it will turn out those who in that particular 

 specialty stand at the head. But in addition to this 

 merely technical work, to the turning out of the 

 scholar, the professional man, the man or woman 

 trained on some special line, each university worthy 



the name must endeavor to turn out men and women 



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in the fullest sense of the word, good citizens, men 

 and women who will add by what they do to the 

 sum of noble work in the whole community. 



It is a good thing that so much attention should 

 be given to physical development. I believe in rough 

 games and in rough, manly sports. I do not feel 

 any particular sympathy for the person who gets 

 battered about a good deal so long as it is not 

 fatal, and if he feels any sympathy for himself I 

 do not like him. I believe thoroughly in the sound 



