The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-05

the same time there lS pOsSlple per
 sonaI isolation, a convenient scholarly life such as no eastern monestary can
 excel
 The American university will be elas-
 tic and varied in it's methods and organ
 ization. It may be wholly devoted to
 the highest studies in original re-
 search. It may have undergraduate as
 well as graduate work. It may be
 strongly self centered with attached
 schools for higher work and for pro- fessional preparation. It may be groups of colleges for higher work and for pro- fessional preparation. It may be groups of colleges which like Oxford and Cam bridge naturally combine for protec-
 tion and mutual advancement.
 But whatever the size of the plant l the locality or organization the final test of the university will be in the l spirit that broods over the place and fills the lives of the students and of- flcers, that of patient, courageous slngle-eyed love of truth, that of en- thusiams to humbly search the depths of knowledge and life and discover what they may yield up.
 Mir. Gladstone In his Roman lectures has told us that the name universities did not originally signify a high teach | ing institute, but a union of persons l for given purposes. The university Is then essentially the union of teacher and student, sympathetically and to- | gether, searching and researching for | the hidden things of the truth. | All this of course implies on the part of the students such moral and inte1lec- l tuaI maturity that they can partially, at least, at first and more fully later in | their course partake of the university spirit. A temper self-restrained and patient free from petty discipline, a character, self respecting, and reason- ably well poised and tested
 Such a spirit has the young man gained in his school life and at the smaller college perhaps before his en- trance to the university. Or 1t may be that the school has developed his char acter that he can directly enter the university.
 But to my mind, there Is between many of our schools and some of our universities to great an hiatus of meth cd and atmosphere for the good of many young men.
 Iuty are IlOl IGdNy TUT lHE university, The plunge is too sharp shock; their moral If not their intellectual charac- ter is unnecessarily shaken. For such young men, and they are many, en- trance into a college earlier few years there, and then the university is, I believe, the normal healthier line to take.
 Then there will be found In the Amer ican university two classes of men, never distinct from each other and yet recognizable
 There are those who, whether they are freshmen or ins the last stages of the grinds for the .Ph. D. examination, are above all things scholars-every- l thing in life, every ambition, hope and ideal Is content upon. their work l as scholars; their highest ambition Is 1 original research with some of the most distant and hidden by-ways of truth | If they become ,teachers, their teach ing work is to them entirely incidental | merely as a necessity of income or an | irksome part ofaupiversity life; their | interest is not inNfheir pupils, but in | their original reSe8rch.
 And on the othafE hand, at the other extreme is a body8pf young men, who | wishing for but not enthusiastic about l a liberal ducationsanterested in certain subjects, perhaps Somewhat sympa- | thetic with scholarship, want to gain certain general principles of culture and | a taste of literary life before they tum- ble into the hurlY burly of life. To them the social and athletic features of the college are attractive and to | these interests they give as much time as the studies will allow, Between these wings of the extreme left and | right are the great body of the stu dents in infinite vanity.
 l know that the scholarly experts | would sometimes like to fling the other crowd out of the university gates as | hindrance to the real objects of | the university and demoralizing ele- ment in the students life I know also that that other crowd are liable to con- sider the scholars as a set of prigs and | spiritless grinds.
 1 want to mention a few features of l the university spirit which have their direct bearing upon American charac- ter. The first that I mention is the sci entitic spirit and method. The days of the rule of the thumb have gone by. l Exact science nas come to stay. The second feature of the university in re- lation to American character is the spirit of democracy.
 In this connection the speaker made some interesting remarks on athletics morning prayers and other points of interest to the college man, and in closing he said that the professor and instructor should lead in the uni versity not by authority. but by intel lectual and spiritual influence.
 The Dwight hall lecture course has been of unusual interest this year. President Patton of Princeton delivered the first lecture on Supernatural Re- ligion," and the Earl of Aberdeen, the governor general of Canada, on "Col- Igee Life"