42 On the Campus 



wise men the immediate purpose, the approval of the 

 great and good of every century the supreme reward; 

 to match the self-sacrifice, the devotion of men who live 

 for others, the sole ambition. She brings them in pres- 

 ence of new and wonderful scenes, truths which stimulate 

 reason, quicken the imagination, the very wine and the 

 bread of intellectual life, and everything is changed; 

 ideals, intentions are changed; values are changing; the 

 world is changed; henceforth none other light is sweet, 

 none other air can kindle for these young men the fires 

 of enthusiasm. They have found a different universe 

 and they know not how ! 



It appears that it does not take much to feed a plant. 

 The green, growing thing almost manufactures its own 

 food as it goes along. The plant assimilates, we say ; we 

 do not know just what it really does; that is quite an- 

 other thing; but the plant assimilates, i.e., makes over to 

 itself, like to itself, the pabulum inorganic just before it. 

 The dead stuff becomes living stuff. Mystery of mys- 

 teries ! The thing goes on before us all the time ; every 

 June day, with a perfect roar, as of Niagara, on these 

 glorious valley plains, in these wondrous gardens, could 

 we only see it and hear it! No doubt of the fact: tons 

 and tons of accomplishment in yon green field even as we 

 speak. Marvel of marvels ! Culture or no culture, only 

 think of it ! A little water, the atmosphere with its vital 

 oxygen, a little C0 2 , a few earthy salts, and lo! the sheen 

 of leaf, the strength of stem, the splendor and perfume 

 of flower, the glory of fruit. 



And so in the culture of the souls of men, such are in 

 fact the tremendous possibilities; for figurative though 



