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And not on me alone. The same may be said of my contempo- 
raries, as I have observed them in success and failure. What was 
true in this respect of the college of thirty years ago is, I appre- 
hend, at least partially true of the college of to-day ; and it is true 
not only of Cambridge, but of other colleges, and of them quite 
as much as of Cambridge. They fail properly to fit their gradu- 
ates for the work they have got to do in the life that awaits 
em. 
“This is harsh language to apply to one’s nursing mother, and 
it calls for an explanation. That explanation I shall now try to 
give. I have said that the college of thirty years ago did not fit 
graduates for the work they had to do in the actual life which 
awaited them. Let us consider for a moment what that life has 
been, and then we will pass to the preparation we received for it. 
d * * * the railroadand 
isbewildering. Theartificial barriers—national, political, social,eco 
rection, 
and the civilized races of the world are becoming one people, even if 
theless the world in which our lot was cast, and in which we hav 
had to live—a bustling, active, nervous world, and one very 7% i 
to keep up with. This much all will admit; while I think I may 
further add that its most marked characteristic has been an i 
tense mental and physical activity, which, working sim ae 
in many tongues, has attempted much and questioned ever 
thing. 
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