50 On the Campus 



In the May Atlantic Monthly Mr. Judy tells, in a de- 

 lightful paper, how he and his wife bring all the culture 

 of the schools and seventeen years' experience in parish 

 work besides, to meet the problems of a farm, that type 

 of industry which most people think to approach with- 

 out intellectual effort of any sort, and which men be- 

 lieve, or pretend to believe, is entirely remote from cul- 

 ture and the way of the finest exercise of human skill. 



In a great college that I chance to know, where are 

 some three thousand students, probably forty per cent, 

 year by year, labor with their hands to support them- 

 selves, in whole or in part. Labor is sweet, its products 

 are beautiful and pleasant things ; itself is culture, when 

 rightly used, the intellect touches it with beauty as sun- 

 light gilds the furrowed field, and every man of culture 

 daily breathes the petition of the old-time poet: "And 

 let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us ; and estab- 

 lish Thou the work of our hands upon us ; yea, the work 

 of our hands, establish Thou it. ' ' 



The fact remains that the whole aim of culture is ser- 

 vice. As Arnold puts it, it is to make beauty and wis- 

 dom prevail. Culture would bring gifts to men, show 

 them how to appreciate the good that is in life, and to 

 use that which makes for real happiness and health. 

 Who are the men who are serving their fellows directly 

 this day in all forms of social effort ? They are, like our 

 own McClaughry, to a man, men of refinement, scholar- 

 ship, culture; men who bring to bear the best that the 

 schools can give in helping the state to care for its citi- 

 zens, to govern them justly, skillfully, and magnanimous- 

 ly; to deliver the poor and the needy from robbery and 



