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subject and lecture-subject, following the tra- 

 ditional pedagogical systems. Long the new 

 education lay in a pupa stage. The mechanic 

 arts phase first got its wings. Now the agri- 

 cultural phase is bursting its shell. But we 

 find that the separate colleges no longer hold 

 the exclusive leadership. We have found that 

 education that makes use of agricultural sub- 

 jects is education, just as much as that which 

 uses mathematics or mental philosophy; and 

 this being the case, they all live together in 

 harmony. u Culture " and " mental discipline " 

 are not mere abstractions : they are the results 

 of good concrete work. 



Not only do they live together in harmony, 

 but all of them gain much from the association. 

 This new education has even put a new atti- 

 tude into much of the literary teaching. More- 

 over, I am very sure that the new industrial 

 and personal education has saved the old col- 

 lege and university from extinction ; or, to 

 put it in another way, that if they had not 

 taken it in, the evolution of our present-day 

 collegiate education would have arisen on new 



