1 8 On the Campus 



Changing philosophy, the discovery of electricity in its 

 manifold service, even the autocar with its horn, has not 

 changed in one iota the nature of the boy. His body is 

 still made up of the usual organs: he must be warmed 

 and fed : he still seeks amusement and play : he is still a 

 creature of passion, he loves, he hopes, he fears: he has 

 but five senses, gateways by which the world may reach 

 him at all: he has but a few years of happy, careless 

 morning, then a few more of toil and burden and disap- 

 pointment, mingled sorrow and joy; then a few more 

 of quiescence and waiting and the lights grow dim, the 

 play is out and all the noisy confusion and eagerness of 

 the world shall disturb him no more forever. The na- 

 ture of man has in no wise changed. 



In the second place, the problem varies not. There is 

 only a little that education however fortunate, is com- 

 petent to do for any man. No education can engraft 

 upon the boy the wisdom of his father, to say nothing of 

 the learning and wisdom of his age. * ' Knowledge comes, 

 but wisdom lingers," and wisdom is still "the principal 

 thing." No system of training ever devised can make a 

 man wise; no system save that of Nature, herself, and 

 Nature's system demands the whole of a human life, 

 and even then is, I am sure, not always successful. No, 

 there is only a little that education can do for any 

 youth: it can help him a little to adjust himself to his 

 surroundings, to the age in which he lives ; it can suggest 

 to him the pathway of happiness as indicated by all 

 human experience, but this is all; there is really in all 

 education, wherever or however offered, nothing different 

 from this. It is still true in the world of wisdom : "No 



