NOVEWBKE 7, 1902.J 



SCIENCE. 



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conscious and a broad-minded citizen of it. 

 If it be the world of letters, his thought 

 should run free upon the whole field of it. 

 If it be the world of affairs, he should 

 move amidst affairs like a man of thought. 

 What we seek in education is a full lib- 

 eration of the faculties, and the man who 

 has not some surplus of thought and energy 

 to expend outside the narrow circle of his 

 own task and interest is a dwarfed, unedu- 

 cated man. We judge the range and ex- 

 cellence of every man's abilities by their 

 play outside the task by which he earns 

 his livelihood. Does he merely work, or 

 does he also look abroad and plan? Does 

 he, at the least, enlarge the thing he 

 handles? No task, rightly done, is truly 

 private. It is part of the world's work. 

 The subtle and yet universal connections of 

 thing's are what the truly educated man, 

 be he man of science, man of letters, or 

 statesman, must keep always in his thought, 

 if he would fit his work to the work of the 

 world. His adjustment is as important as 

 his energy. 



We mean, so soon as our generous 

 friends have arranged their private finan- 

 ces in such a way as to enable them to 

 release for our use enough money for the 

 purpose, to build a notable gradiiate col- 

 lege. I say 'build' because it will be not 

 only a body of teachers and students, but 

 also a college of residence, where men shall 

 live together in the close and wholesome 

 comradeships of learning. We shall build 

 it, not apart, but as nearly as may be at 

 the very heart, the geographical heart, of 

 the university; and its comradeships shall 

 be for young men and old, for the novice 

 as well as for the graduate. It will con- 

 stitute but a single term in the scheme of 

 coordination which is our ideal. The win- 

 dows of the graduate college must open 

 straight upon the walks and quadrangles 

 and lecture halls of the studium generate. 



In our attempt to escape the pedantry 



and narrowness of the old fixed curriculiam 

 we have, no doubt, gone so far as to be in 

 danger of losing the old ideals. Our iitili- 

 tarianism has carried us so far afield that 

 we are in a fair way to forget the real 

 utilities of the mind. No doubt the old, 

 purely literary training made too much of 

 the development of mere taste, mere deli- 

 cacy of perception, but our modern train- 

 ing makes too little. We pity the young 

 child who, ere its physical life has come to 

 maturity, is put to some task which will 

 dwarf and narrow it into a mere mechanic 

 tool. We know that it needs first its free 

 years in the sunlight and fresh air, its 

 irresponsible youth. And yet we do not 

 hesitate to deny to the young mind its irre- 

 sponsible years of mere development in 

 the free air of general studies. We have 

 too ignorantly served the spirit of the age 

 — have made no bold and sanguine attempt 

 to instruct and lead it. Its call is for effi- 

 ciency, but not for narrow, purblind 

 efficiency. Surely no other age ever had 

 tasks wliich made so shrewdly for the test- 

 ing of the general powers of the mind. No 

 sort of knowledge, no sort of training of 

 the perceptions and the facility of the mind 

 could come amiss to the modern man of 

 affairs or the modern student. A general 

 awakening of the faculties, and then a close 

 and careful adaptation to some special 

 task, is the program of mere prudence for 

 every man who would succeed. 



And there are other things besides mere 

 material success with which we must supply 

 our generation. It must be supplied with 

 men who care more for principles than for 

 money, for the right adjustments of life 

 than for the gross accumulations of profit. 

 The problems that call for sober thought- 

 fulness and mere devotion are as pressing 

 as those which call for practical efficiency. 

 We are here not merely to release the facul- 

 ties of men for their own use, but also to 

 quicken their social understanding, instruct 



