utterance from the depths of his own being and thus i standing be you in some sort a humble representative of that large class sometimes termed the � c educated by others perhaps more properly the i shall speak to you fi om the � before the literary of college july d the relations of to labor heart of that class � truths which may or may not have long since through the halls of our their venerable dust but which in either case are certain i ere long to make themselves heard and respected i have not hesitated to choose for my theme on this occasion � the discipline duties of the scholar vast and lofty though it be and imperfect as have been my opportunities for its thorough appreciation and discussion few as are the fragments of hours that i have been able to seize for its contemplation i am well aware that on its proper apprehension depends in great degree the progress and the well being of the human race you need not fear my friends that the advantages of a thorough education nor of a thoroughly educated class will be in our day and especially by us weary and along the beneath the sun of active life who have been able but to as it were here and there a from the grateful waters of know ledge as they danced and across our too eager headlong course o not from our panting ranks will ever arise the cry that solid and learning is a boon to be rejected or lightly the small of knowledge which we awkwardly handle arid dispense are constantly reminding us of the of golden treasure which for us lie buried in the far recesses of halls like these from which a grim fate has forever us limited as may have been our opportunities it is not to us a sealed truth that the present is only to be rightly read and interpreted in the full reflected from the past we are not unaware that this uneasy throng of to day is but a with slight of the striving crowds of a thousand to be again and again represented in the several of countless to we are well ware that faithful history is a as well as a judge � that her magic mirror gives back the faces glowing around us hints toward as well as the forms in dust beneath us and that he who rightly reads of and of and of smooth and may turn at once from the chronicle and see the living characters eagerly around him must he not discern the of our republic in that noble of our heroic elder time the oft baffled defeated but bravely struggling of might he not be tempted at last to suspect that the difference between one age and another exists quite as often in its as in its actors and that the of and would reveal heroism as devoted and admirable as any of that more recorded by or had we but the skill to interpret them as � in short it is not alone the educated who have learned that a knowledge of man is the central truth to which the study of men and their acts must be and that the mingled web of and human infirmity termed history is to be rightly only in proportion as we apprehend its beginning and its destined conclusion there is there must be a educated class among us � i do not merely admit the notorious fact i perceive the vital necessity whether the distance between that class and the many should or should not be as broad and palpable as at present is not now the question my theme its existence and that the greater number are however we might desire the universal and possession of the knowledge now confined to this class we know it is and long must be impossible its a devotion of time and of means to say nothing of tastes and habits which can only be given by the comparatively few my theme then the compound inquiry � what should be the oi the education of the more cultivated class � under what conditions should learn the relations of learning to labor ing be acquired � what ends should it contemplate � what advantages secure to its i shall proceed to discuss it i would insist then as the in the discipline of the scholar on a thorough and harmonious development of the physical man i place this first not as more important than moral and intellectual culture but as the proper foundation of all culture unto perfection you need not me to instances of intellectual giants who are physically � of genius and wit � you may as well tell me that the of a great city are favorable to health and because men have v grown there to stature and vigor and died in hale old age as well tell me that the and the battle field are favorable to long life because men have died peacefully at ninety after a half century of and these are exceptions which rather establish the rule than it a sound mind in a sound body � that is the order of nature � you may find a sound mind elsewhere but it will be most and bestowed the body can endure a divorce far better than the mind in fact we see bodies breathing moving acting all around us which seem to perform their proper functions tolerably with the aid of very little mind � almost none � but a clear mind in a body is a far more pitiable spectacle it is a diamond in the clutch of a to be gazed at a moment in wonder then hurled into the depths of the sea it is a freight of the wealth of the indies embarked in a tottering which is certain to sink in the 