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lawyer, or a theologian. Fools dream that any man 

 who has been through college can of course settle 

 every problem inside the range of religious science, 

 although you would not trust him a moment within 

 the range of legal or medical science ! [Applause.] 

 So immense is the interest of philosophical and theo- 

 logical topics, however, that nearly every awakened 

 mind presses into these fields ; and yet, until a stu- 

 dent has passed through a certain amount of special 

 training, he is no more fit to give personal auto- 

 cratic opinions as to philosophy and theology than 

 concerning law and medicine. Look at religious 

 truth scientifically before you undertake to give 

 opinions on it ex cathedra. Master logic and the 

 scientific method on the one hand, and the facts of 

 your specialty on the other, before you attempt to 

 apply the former to the latter. A professional train- 

 ing will be none too long or thorough to make you 

 experts and authorities in medicine and law; nor 

 will it be to make you such in theology. 



Sometimes, in the late springs, the herds starve 

 while waiting for the grass to grow. This hunger of 

 waiting for the fat clover of culture through slow 

 vernal seasons is the most melancholy circumstance 

 of many college lives. Let an hour a day be given 

 to feeding your soul's soul as best you may. In 

 the end you will obtain most food by sharpening 

 well the sickles with which you are to forage for it 

 among the harvests of professional life. Faithful- 

 ness to all the college studies sends one into the 

 brown wheat-fields at last with reaping-machines of 

 the first order. 





