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is the upper millstone. He has been aghast at our newness, 

 our smallness, our poorness in this world's goods, our incon- 

 spicuousness, our ugly mundane surroundings, our incomplete- 

 ness in range of studies, our poverty in the number of learned 

 men, our poverty in halls of residence, our strange new studies 

 about leather, dyeing, and brewing. The nether millstone 

 has been the man who has not been at Oxford or Cambridge, 

 who does not believe in them, who associates them with 

 pedantry, ecclesiasticism, class education, idleness cultured or 

 uncultured, and who has doubts whether even knowledge of 

 leather, dyeing, and brewing, when acquired in a university, is 

 likely to be of much value in the work-a-day world. 



Well, I understand both points of view, and I sympathize 

 heartily with both. It seems to me the most natural thing in 

 this world that we should have these difficulties to encounter. 

 But happily we have had in our founders a body of men 

 whom the public could trust, men who on the one hand 

 occupied in the world of business a position which was 

 a guarantee of their zeal and sagacity in practical affairs, and 

 who on the other hand were so obviously imbued with high 

 ideals of life, that they could never be suspected of a desire to 

 look upon higher education merely as an instrument for the 

 service of Mammon. 



Here, in my opinion, do we find the main current of the 

 new university movement. It is characterized most of all by 

 this, that it embodies an attempt to infuse intellectual life into 

 the daily work of the modern world ; not merely to superadd 

 to work the means for a cultivated leisure, but to endow work 

 itself with something that will enter into its very life-blood. 



The nineteenth century embraced a period of unparalleled 

 industrial development, and more remarkable to us than the 

 increase in volume of industry is the alteration in its character. 

 The arts of industry and commerce were transformed into 

 branches of applied science. Do not suppose that I mean to 



