And yet, Jena there in the shadow of the Thuringian LITTLE 

 mountains, is only a little town of less than ten thou- JOURNEYS 

 sand inhabitants. In 1903 there were five hundred 

 pupils registered at Jena, as against four thousand at 

 Harvard, five thousand at Ann Arbor, and nearly the 

 same at Lincoln, Nebraska. 



It will not do to assume that those who graduate at 

 big colleges are big men, any more than to imagine 

 that folks who reside in big towns are bigger than 

 those who live in little villages. 



Perhaps the greatest men have come from the small 

 colleges I believe the small colleges admit this. And 

 surely there is plenty of good argument handy, in way 

 of proof; for while Harvard has her Barrett Wendell, 

 with his caveat on clearness, force, and elegance; and 

 Ann Arbor claims Cicero Trueblood, Professor of Ora- 

 tory, whose official duty it is to formulate the College 

 Yell; yet Amherst, with her scant five hundred pupils, 

 has Professor David P. Todd, the greatest astronomer 

 of the New "World. 



I really wonder what a University that stands in fear 

 of Triggsology would do with Professor Ernst Haeckel, 

 whose disregard for tradition is decidedly Ingersollian ! 

 QThe actual fact is, Ernst Hseckel, the world's great- 

 est thinker, belongs in the little town of Jena, in Ger- 

 many. At the village of Coniston, you see the little 

 hall where Ruskin read the best things he ever wrote, 

 to a dozen or two people. At Hammersmith, the limit 

 of a William Morris audience was about a hundred, 

 at Jena, Ernst Haeckel sits secure in his little lecture 



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