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merit, to the energetic student. But it should rather prove 

 a test of his mettle. The problem of self-adjustment to 

 new methods and materials is of itself valuable to the 

 thinker. And, of course, to the earnest and talented 

 aspirant, personal contact with the most eminent profes- 

 sors is attainable. 



Perhaps equal in value to the acquirement of positive 

 knowledge are the influences of the French "milieu/' 

 scholastic, public and private; these, if the student be 

 sensible to them, must inevitably draw him, as an earnest 

 partisan on one or the other side, into the stimulating 

 movements which are characterizing French thought 

 today. 



Finally it may be noted that the French genius for 

 formal public expression should offer to the receptive Am- 

 erican aspirant a stimulus and a model, such as would 

 profit both the practitioner and the university teacher in 

 America. 



