234 UNIVERSITIES: ACTUAL AND IDEAL vii] 



And though somewhat be lost and gone, 



Yet do thou act as one new-born. 



What each day needs, that shalt thou ask ; 



Each day will set its proper task. 



Give others' work just share of praise ; 



Not of thine own the merits raise. 



Beware no fellow man thou hate : 



And so in God's hands leave thy fate." l 



1 Goethe, Zahme Xenien, Vierte Abtheilung. I should be 

 glad to take credit for the close and vigorous English version ; 

 but it is my wife's, and not mine. 



