64 On the Campus 



some insignificant closing particle, and thus to attain in 

 unbroken sphere a completely uttered thought, over- 

 whelmed by this, you have perhaps been content to carry 

 hither only some lyric remnants, bits of haunting verse 

 that immortalize Heine or Goethe; although perhaps 

 even here the author is for you merely an unburied 

 shade. But if you have studied your German rightly, 

 as no doubt you have, at the mere word the torches flare 

 again against the night of the old Teutobergerwald ; the 

 German knights ride along the Baltic sands; castles rise 

 and are mirrored in the green waters of the sunny 

 Rhine ; the Hohenzollerns march to empire, as Frederick 

 Second breaks the power of foolish France, gives Canada 

 to English speech, and makes possible this commence- 

 ment at Cedar Falls! That is what you have found in 

 German ! 



Mathematics, physics have had their turn ; and at this 

 moment, most of your acquisitions lie in the fourth 

 dimension of space. Pedagogy and even psychology 

 boldest attempt to plat easy avenues to the conquest of 

 man's soul even these no longer stand out with that 

 sharpness which their uttered principles did once sug- 

 gest. Both perception and apperception have become, 

 possibly, eoxjeption, if not deception; and yet you 

 know how to teach. Why? Because you have seen ex- 

 perienced, gifted teachers teach ; and, more, you are con- 

 fident, not of psychology, but of yourself; and success 

 comes with the dawning of the day. You have studied 

 natural science. Was it botany, geology, zoology? You 

 may not now recall ; but as you look out of the window 

 this morning the world looks different indeed ; trees and 



