28 On the Campus 



education to inculcate good manners. For the lack of 

 good manners, nothing, absolutely nothing, can ever 

 atone. It is well to know things; it is well to know 

 our own history ; it is well to have thorough self-respect ; 

 but no amount of accumulated pride of race or learning 

 can excuse a boor. Courtesy is the delight of life ; it is 

 the glow of sunlight upon the fields of ripening grain, 

 and goes on forever, adding to wealth the element of 

 abiding beauty. 



It will have been noticed that everything cited so far, 

 as desirable in our systems of training, has reference to 

 the individual man and his knowledge of himself as 

 an individual; we may not however, even in this brief 

 resume omit reference to that other great field of human 

 thought and interest which concerns the physical world. 

 No man may deem himself educated, or even on the way 

 to scholarship to-day, who does not know accurately 

 some one of the many forms of physical science. This 

 for several reasons; in the first place, the world about 

 us is a very wonderful and glorious world, very well 

 worth knowing, and to it we stand in most intimate re- 

 lation; in the second place, our thought about this ma- 

 terial world and our knowledge of it combine to give 

 us our philosophy, our highest and most wonderful in- 

 tellectual activity. Nay, the religion of the world, its 

 faith, has in all the centuries been an expression of 

 human science, ennobled and made credible, possible, 

 more and more, as the enigma of the universe becomes 

 legible through research. The highest thought in every 

 century is an attempt to explain the world and its on- 

 goings. Thousands of years ago men declared, "The 



