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This is the great problem of the twentieth century. 

 It overshadows all others. Signs are not wanting that 

 we shall witness the full realization of all that 

 President Hadley has so admirably expressed in the 

 following words : 



"Our brotherhood knows no bounds of occupation. 

 The day when people thought of the learned profes- 

 sions as something set apart from all others, the 

 exclusive property of a privileged few, is past. Opin- 

 ions may differ as to the achievements of democracy ; 

 but none can fail to value that growing democracy of 

 letters which makes of every calling a learned and 

 noble profession, when it is pursued with the clearness 

 of vision which is furnished by science or history and 

 with the disinterested devotion to the public welfare 

 which true learning inspires. We are proud to have 

 with us not only the theologian, the jurist, or the 

 physician ; not merely the historical investigator or the 

 scientific discoverer ; but the men of every name, who, 

 by arms or arts, in letters or in commerce, have con- 

 tributed to bring all callings equally within the scope 

 of university life." 



We are about to see the proper university recogni- 

 tion given to the callings upon which so much of our 

 national welfare depends agriculture, the production 

 and harvesting of field crops; silviculture, the produc- 

 tion and harvesting of forest crops. 



For the fulfilment of this prophecy, the recent utter- 

 ances of our educational leaders and the munificent 

 gifts of our men of wealth give us hope and encour- 

 agement. It is of the very spirit and life of our 

 democracy, and it must come. Of all the great move- 

 ments of the twentieth century, none will prove more 

 characteristic of democracy and more vital and vivify- 

 ing than the establishment of "an elementary school 



