30 On the Campus 



our best endeavor that we recognize the philosophic con- 

 ditions under which we work, that we forecast the drift 

 of thought, and that we so adjust ourselves as to take 

 advantage of the ever larger and broader view by which 

 the new cycle is ever certain "to shame the old/' 



Here then, is the place of all these wider institutions 

 of learning where college ranks against college, and 

 foundations and lectures and courses of study are multi- 

 plied in ever increasing complexity. Here is the place of 

 the great university. While it may primarily meet the 

 simple demands of the simpler training I have already 

 sketched, and while it certainly must afford to the pro- 

 fessional man, the physician, the lawyer, the engineer, 

 the training he needs for his special business in the 

 world, yet in a broader and finer sense the great uni- 

 versity is set to represent the intellectual world, to ex- 

 hibit not its attainments only, but its spirit; not merely 

 to foster learning and conserve it, but to widen the 

 limits of human knowledge in every field, display each 

 new attainment, and so maintain that noble intellectual 

 ferment which carries the race forward, albeit but a 

 single step at a time, to ever clearer and better things. 

 In the living universities of the world the spirit of the 

 times is not only developed, it is forever made manifest, 

 sent forth, and the atmosphere of these greater intellec- 

 tual centers becomes sooner or later the familiar air of 

 every humblest study. To a university as a great mart, 

 all wares are brought; new caravans are continually ar- 

 riving and the confusion not infrequently is great; but 

 the customer may select his own, and every one may 

 find the object of his quest. Here is the meeting place 



