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SCIENCE. 



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Seas, Flaws, and contrary Blasts ; and 'tis 

 well if by many cross Tacks and Veerings 

 you arrive at the Port; for we sleep in 

 Lyons Skins in our Progress unto Virtue 

 and we slide not, but climb unto it." 



Have a purpose and carry it out with 

 fortitude. There can be no more absorb- 

 ing or inspiring career than is afforded by 

 the study of medicine at the present time. 

 The scaffolding reared by countless work- 

 ers during thousands of years around the 

 fair temple of medicine, necessary for the 

 building doubtless, but concealing its pro- 

 portions and too often defacing its beau- 

 ties, has been swept away and for the first 

 time it is permitted to us to know some- 

 thing of the dimensions and architectural 

 possibilities of the completed edifice. Can 

 there be a nobler aspiration for any man 

 than to assist in the completion of the work 

 of transforming the ancient art of healing 

 into the science of medicine! 



In my childhood in a far distant state 

 I daily heard from the lips of an aged rela- 

 tive the story of Tale College and New 

 Haven as she had known them at the be- 

 ginning of the last century. Her tales of 

 the many scholarly activities of the -first 

 President Dwight, of the scientific zeal 

 and achievements of the elder Silliman, 

 of the boundless industry in many fields 

 of Noah "Webster and of the profound 

 learning and influence of Dr. ^neas 

 Munson, presented ideals of life and pos- 

 sibilities of scholarly attainment which 

 have remained with me ever since. Those 

 who have been engaged in educational 

 work here during the past two centuries 

 can have had no conception of the silent 

 influence which Yale has exerted upon the 

 training of generation after generation of 

 men throughout the whole land who have 

 never visited New Haven nor come into 

 personal contact Avith the eminent teach- 

 ers who have gathered here. 



Mindful of my own indebtedness to 



Yale, wholly indirect, I am not guilty of 

 overstatement when I say that I regard the 

 honor of an invitation to address you to- 

 day as the most cherished academic event 

 of my life. I regard the honor, however, 

 in no sense a personal one, but deem it 

 rather an evidence of the good will and 

 amity which has ever characterized the re- 

 lations between Yale and other schools and 

 teachers. The university with which I am 

 connected and which in a sense I represent 

 to-day is equally her debtor for scholarly 

 inspiration and example, and in her name 

 as well as my own I would render most 

 grateful and appreciative acknowledg- 

 ment. 



Henry M. Hurd. 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital. 



THE NEW DEFINITION OF THE CULTI- 

 VATED MAN* 



The ideal of general cultivation has been 

 one of the standards in education. It is 

 the object of this paper to show that the 

 idea of cultivation in the highly trained 

 human being has undergone substantial 

 changes during the nineteenth centurj^ 



I propose to use the term cultivated man 

 in only its good sense— in Emerson's sense. 

 In this paper he is not to be a weak, crit- 

 ical, fastidious creature, vain of a little 

 exclusive information or of an uncommon 

 knack in Latin verse or mathematical 

 logic; he is to be a man of quick percep- 

 tions, broad sympathies and wide affinities, 

 responsive but independent, self-reliant 

 but deferential, loving truth and candor 

 but also moderation and proportion, cou- 

 rageous but gentle, not finished but per- 

 fecting. 



There are two principal differences be- 

 tween the present ideal and that which pre- 

 vailed at the beginning of the nineteenth 

 century. The horizon of the human intel- 



* From the presidential address of Dr. Charles 

 W. Eliot, before the National Educational Asso- 

 ciation. 



