328 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



of Wykeham thoroughly believed in that and sought to en- 

 force it in the minds and hearts of the thousands of students 

 who have passed through the portals of his college since 

 then. 



Education, or "manners," as he called it, meant the trainint^ 

 of every side of a man's nature. As the hand — manus in 

 Latin — vi^as educated to all the varied fineness of skill and 

 hence gave rise to the word "manners" ; so the intellect and 

 soul could and should be educated in all the varied forms of 

 knowledge and virtue which "maketh man." So the sturdy 

 old bishop set up a monument of learning which has not yet 

 fallen into decay ; but exists as an example of what one man's 

 clear sense of true education can afford us even now. 



But manners are not to be acquired without a struggle. We 

 must ever fight down and pluck out the weeds that grow in 

 the garden of the soul and the intellect. William of Wyke- 

 ham's pleasant park in New College means incessant work and 

 labor bestowed upon it to render it to-day so grateful and 

 pleasant. Work, work, and then work, must be the text and 

 action of him who strives after the "Manners which maketh 

 man." One of our great natural philosophers and inventors 

 of to-day, Thomas Edison, is credited with a definition of 

 genius, which says : "Genius consists of five per cent inspira- 

 tion, and ninety-five per cent of perspiration." Sometimes I 

 think that, for the average man, the inspiration is nil, and the 

 perspiration must be profuse, if he ever hopes to accomplish 

 anything. 



You gentlemen have been trained in a school where before 

 aught else you have been taught that "Manners maketh man." 

 You have acquired a manner of appreciating and reverencing 

 the spiritual and eternal things which lie close to man's heart. 

 The manner of dealing with the sacred and serious things of 

 life has been enjoined upon you. Along with your mental pow- 

 ers you have not been permitted for a moment to lose sight of 

 the spiritual and higher nature that lies within you. 



It is well, therefore, to consider where the present physical 

 and industrial development leaves us. In inventive genius and 

 in mechanical and scientific discovery it seems to have sur- 

 passed all previous epochs. Indeed sometimes we seem to have 

 made so much progress along purely material lines that we 

 have lost sight of the higher and nobler side of things. Often 



