The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
The Care and Culture of Men.

Under the title of "The Care and Culture of
Men" President Jordan of Stanford has pub
llshed volume containing series of articles
and addresses dealing with the general sub
ject of higher education. The greater number
and the more important of the papers are ad-
dresses delivered before universityites, but
some OF them are trestises on various educa-
tional subjects which have been published
heretofore in magazines and reviews
The scope of the series can be fairly esti-
mated from the titles of the leading addresses
which are as follows: "The Value of Higher
Education" ''The Evolution of the College
Curriculum" "The Nations Need of Men,
''The Care and Culture of Men," 'The Scholar
in the Community" ''The Scholar and the
State" The Higher Education OF Women"
''Science and the Colleges and "The Process
sion OF Life.'
The general tone of all these discourses is
that of scientific optimist.' President Jor-
dan is not blind to the defects in our social
organism nor TO the ccrruptions that manifest
themselves in our politics. He points these
out clearly again and again, in order to en-
phaslze the need OF better educated men TO
the community. We have more general in
te!Hgenoe and less high intelligence, he says,
than any other civilized people. The great
need OF America, therefore, Is wise leaders.
These, however, cannot come until the people
ers when we seek men to represent our highest
convictions and not merely our business in
terests. That such leaders will be sought for
before long DR.. Jordan strongly maintains, for
as he says, to doubt it would be to despair OF
the Repu bile.
His plea for higher education is not merely
that learning may be advanced, but that the
Advancement of learning may lead to purer
manners and to nobler laws. These much-to-
he !, halt
attained through the efforts of the so-called
reformers. He is too firm a disciple of the
philosophy of evolution to expect that men
can be changed by a change of statutory enact
ments. He looks for the improvement in the
conditions of the Nation to come largely
through the influence of men of worth AMI
culture, and takes as the motto OF his volume
the saying of Emerson, "The best political
economy is the care and culture OF men" This
text furnishes the theme for most of the arti-
cles in the volume, but there are several relat-
ing to the course of study pursued in our col
leges and to questions OF educational me thod
that Will be found almost equally interesting.
The volume is dedicated simply ITO Jane
Lathrop Stanford" and closes with a sonnet
sufficiently significant of the authors mental
attitude toward the world to be worth study in
this connection:
know castle in the heart of Spain,
Bullded OF stone as If to stand for aye,
With tile roof red against the azure sky;
For skies are bluest in the heart of Spain.
SO fair castle men build not again.
Meath its broad arches, in its courtyard fair
And through its cloisters, open everywhere;
wander as 1 will in rain
Its iDmost secrets unto me are known
For mine the castle is. Nor mine alone
'Tis thine dear heart to have ana hold Away
'Tis all the worlds likewise as mine and thine,
For whose passes through its gates shall say,
81 dwelt within this castIe-it is mine."