November 17, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



615 



more than the annexation of many fertile 

 islands beyond the sea, and would cost far 

 less. 



In brief, then, this institution must be- 

 come, in all departments of professional 

 life, a great center of scientific research 

 and investigation, and must become so, if 

 for no other reason, because the professional 

 training itself can not be of the highest 

 type unless it be given by men who are 

 qualified for, and eager of, scientific effort. 



This university will include within itself 

 not merely the old professions — law, medi- 

 cine, teaching — but it will include scientific 

 preparation for any department of our 

 community life, for the successful prose- 

 cution of which an extensive scientific 

 training of this kind is desirable or neces- 

 sary. We shall add, therefore, from time 

 to time schools or colleges which will take 

 care of these new professions as they may 

 appear. We have already begun with the 

 profession of engineering in all its various 

 forms — mechanical, civil, electrical, sani- 

 tary, chemical, etc., the profession of archi- 

 tecture and the profession of farming. 

 The next to be entered upon in a large and 

 satisfactory way is the profession of busi- 

 ness. Some of these newer callings are, of 

 course, quite different in their character, 

 and will call for quite a different kind of 

 training from that of the old so-called 

 learned professions. It will hardly be pos- 

 sible to turn through the halls of our uni- 

 versities, even though they be multiplied 

 many fold, all those who expect to enter 

 in one capacity or another the great world 

 of business. And for many a long day to 

 come the great geniuses in this department 

 will probably be men who have had no 

 university training; for the 'wind bloweth 

 where it listeth' and many a genius will 

 sprout and bud and flower in this domain 

 who has not seen even the outside walls of 

 a preparatory school or college or univer- 



sity. But we have already reached the 

 time when the subject matter relating to 

 the world of business has a content which 

 is susceptible of scientific treatment, the 

 study of which, under proper conditions, 

 may become a valuable element in the 

 preparation for business. The time has 

 come, therefore, when the college of com- 

 merce should be one of the constituent col- 

 leges of the university. 



So I expect to see this institution increase 

 the number and quality of its professional 

 schools as the years go on, until it will 

 have developed into a full-fledged univer- 

 sity of the broadest scope, capable of an- 

 swering to the multiform needs of a great 

 commonwealth. 



In a word, this institution will most fully 

 perform its duty to the people of this state 

 if it will stand simply, plainly, unequivo- 

 cally and uncompromisingly for training 

 for vocation, not training for leisure — 

 not even for scholarship per se, except as 

 scholarship is a necessary incident to all 

 pioper training of a higher sort for vo- 

 cation, or may be a vocation itself, but 

 training to perform an efficient service for 

 society in and through some calling in 

 which a man expresses himself and through 

 which he works out some lasting good to 

 society. Such training for vocation should 

 naturally, and would inevitably, if the 

 training were of the proper sort, result in 

 the awakening of such ideals of service as 

 would permeate, refine and elevate the 

 character of the student. It would make 

 him a scholar and investigator, a thinker, 

 a patriot— an educated gentleman. 



It is apparent to any one who knows the 

 present condition of the university, and for 

 that matter of any of our American uni- 

 versities, that such a conception as this 

 calls for a continued growth at the top 

 and a lopping off at the bottom. In other 

 words, it requires an increasing standard 



