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appropriate to a college, but I think it would offer the colleges 

 themselves a mission which would react grandly on their general 

 efficiency. There is an agreement that the first function of the 

 college is the training of young people in the qualities which go 

 to make more effective members of organized human society. 

 But there is also a general feeling that somehow this is not by 

 itself quite sufficient, for while it offers a worthy and amply 

 difficult educational service, it does not provide a sufficiently- 

 absorbing intellectual interest. Our colleges require, for the 

 maintenance of high intellectual tone, both of students and of 

 teachers, some more vigorous intellectual resistance than under- 

 graduates alone can offer. It is in response to this feeling that 

 some colleges have established graduate work, but in all cases, 

 so far as I know, of the investigation or university type. For 

 such work, however, our students should be sent to a university, 

 which can provide far better than any college the facilities, com- 

 panionship and atmosphere essential to its successful pursuit. 

 To encourage young people, who are never well informed upon 

 these matters and who do not understand the differences between 

 institutions, to come to a college for work of the university type, 

 is little better than attracting them under false pretenses. It 

 would be much better for our educational system if the colleges 

 would do no graduate work at all, unless they can offer something 

 which they can do better than the university. In the training 

 of their own and high-school teachers, and other interpreters of 

 knowledge, they have, from the very nature of their activities 

 and the presence right at hand of the best of all practice schools, 

 a work which they can do better than the university. I hope ere 

 long to see, in one of our greater colleges, the establishment of 

 the first graduate school devoted to the training of these inter- 

 preters of knowledge. 



But now I have reached the bounds which custom and courtesy 

 allow to a speaker for this kind of address, and although I think 

 with regret of the many large matters I fain would include to 

 make my account of this subject complete, I must come to a close. 

 I shall add but one thing, which is this — a summary of the objects 

 for which we should work. 



