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SCIENCE. 



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university has shoAvn, a thousand times, 

 that sound theory and correct practice are 

 two sides of a shield. A theorist is one 

 who sees, and the practical man must be 

 in touch with theory if he is to see what 

 it is that he does. 



What the future development of the 

 great universities is to be perhaps no one 

 can foresee. But this much is certain. 

 Every city which because of its size or 

 wealth or position aims to be a center of 

 enlightenment and a. true world-capital 

 must be the home of a great university. 

 Here students and teachers will throng by 

 the mere force of intellectual gravitation, 

 and here service will abound from the mere 

 host of opportunities. The city, not in its 

 corporate capacity, but as a spiritual en- 

 tity, mil be the main support of the uni- 

 versity, and the university, in turn, will 

 be the chief servant of the city's higher 

 life. True citizens will vie with each other 

 in strengthening the university for scholar- 

 ship and for service. In doing so they 

 can say, with Horace, that they have 

 builded themselves monuments more lasting 

 than bronze and loftier than the pyramids 

 reared by kings, monuments which neither 

 flood nor storm nor the long flight of years 

 can overthrow or destroy. Sir John de 

 Balliol, doing a penance fixed by the Abbot 

 of Durham; Walter de Merton, making 

 over his minor house and estates to secure 

 to others the advantages which he had not 

 himself enjoyed ; William of Wykeham, car- 

 ing generously for New College and for 

 Winchester school ; John Harvard, leaving 

 half his property and his library to the in- 

 fant college by the Charles, and Elihu Yale, 

 giving money and his books to the colle- 

 giate school in New Haven, have written 

 their names on the roll of the immortals 

 and have conferred untold benefits upon 

 the human race. Who were their wealthy, 

 powerful, and high-born contemporaries? 

 Where are they in the grateful esteem of 



the generations that have come after them ? 

 What service have they made possible? 

 AVhat now avails their wealth, their power, 

 their high birth? Balliol, Merton, Har- 

 vard, Yale are names known wherever the 

 English language is spoken, and beyond. 

 They signify high purpose, zeal for learn- 

 ing, opposition to philistinism and igno- 

 rance. They are closely intemvoven with 

 the social, the religious, the political, the 

 literary history of our race. Where else 

 are there monuments such as theirs? 



Scholarship and service are the true 

 university's ideal. The university of to- 

 day is not the 'home of lost causes, and 

 forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, 

 and impossible loyalties.' It keeps step 

 with the march of progress, widens its sym- 

 pathies with growing knowledge, and 

 among a democratic people seeks only to 

 instruct, to uplift and to serve, in order 

 that the cause of religion and learning, and 

 of human freedom and opportunity, may 

 be continually advanced from century to 

 century and from age to age. , 



TYPES AND STNONYUa. 



From the literary standpoint the ex- 

 istence of many names for the same or 

 closely similar objects or ideas is thought 

 to enrich language and to conduce to fa- 

 cility, elegance and accuracy of expression. 

 In systematic biology, however, synonjrms 

 figure as superfluous designations which 

 furnish no useful or welcome additions to 

 the vocabulary of science; biological syn- 

 onymy is a most burdensome legacy of 

 ignorance and confusion, requiring con- 

 stant revision and readjustment, and 

 yielding no adequate returns for the labor 

 which the naturalist must expend in his- 

 torical or merely antiquarian research. 

 Indeed, the study of systematic biology 

 appears to be little more than a ' battle of 

 the synonyms' when its most conspicuous 



