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It is a common and just complaint, that profes- 

 sional training in our century is too often one-sided 

 and narrow. Specialists all men must be who suc- 

 ceed, but they who succeed best will be specialists 

 and more. Much of our education builds an arc, 

 and not the whole circumference, of culture. Only 

 whole wheels will roll. [Applause.] Wherever we 

 leave out an arc in our culture, there is likely, as the 

 wheel rolls, to be a halt some day. If a great 

 university thinks it may be wholly secular, and 

 teach nothing concerning religious truth, ignoring 

 the loftiest faculties of man, then I say that univer- 

 sity is not building circles of culture, but rockers. 

 [Applause.] This age is a babe that goes in a cradle 

 on wheels, and no longer in one on rockers. [Ap- 

 plause.] 



Except the large culture of the higher powers of 

 the soul, there is nothing we need more to insist 

 upon as a remedy for scepticism than sound schol- 

 arship. If students do not care to compete with 

 each other from motives of ambition, let them, from 

 the love of usefulness, put themselves on the list of 

 those who, by successful competition in college, have 

 given a prophecy of their success in the competition 

 of subsequent life. Macaulay said once that the 

 general rule, beyond all doubt, was that the men 

 who are first in the competition of the schools have 

 been first in the competition of the world. 



Who are some of the men now in public life in 

 America whose college rank has been a prophecy of 

 their success in life ? Although valedictorians occa* 



