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 of less importance. is nevertheless of very great importance It is impOr- tant even to the development of the average man. for the average of all of us is raised by the work of the great masters
 IL IS, trust. unnecessary to say that I appreciate to the full the fact that the highest work of all will never be affected one way or the other by any question of compensation. And much of the work which is really best for the nation must from the very nature of things be non-remuneratiye as com. pared with the work of the ordinary industries and vacations. Nor would it ever be possible or desirable that the rewards of transcendent success in scholarship should even approxl- mate, from monetary standpoint, the rewards in other vacations But it is also true that the effect upon am bilious minds can not be bad if as a people We show our slight regard for scholarly achievement by making no provision at all for its reward. The chief use of the increased money value Of the scholars prize would beNthe in dex thereby afforded of the respect in which it was popularly held The American scientist. the American scholar. should have the chance at least of winning such prizes as are open to his successful brother in Ger many. England or France. where the rewards paid for first class scholarly achievements are as much above those paid in this country as our re. wards for first class achievement in industry or law are above those paid abroad
 But of course what counts infinitely more than any possible outside re- ward is the spirit of the worker him. self. The prime need is to instill into the minds of the scholars themselves a true appreciation of real as dis tinguished from sham success. In productive scholarship. in the schol- arship which adds by it's work to the sum of substantial achievements with which the country is to be credited, it IS only first class work that counts In this field the smallest amount of really first class work is worth all the second class work that can possibly be produced; and to have done such work is in itself the fullest and am. plest reward to the man producing 1t. We outsiders should according to our ability aid him in every way to pro duce it. Yet all that we can do is but little compared to what he himself can and must do. The spirit of the scholar is the vital factor in the pro- ductive scholarship of the country.
 Normal School Function.
 So much for the first function of the university. the sending forth of al small number Of scholars of the high. est rank who will do productive work of the first class. Now turn to the second. and what may be called the normal function of the college, the function of turning out each year l many hundreds of men who shall pos l sess the trained intelligence. and es- pecially the character, that will en- able them to hold high the renown of this ancient seat of learning by doing | useful service for the nation. It is not my purpose to discuss at length | what should be done in Harvard to produce the right spirit among the men who go out of Harvard. but rather to speak of what his spirit | should be Nor shall I speak of the exceptions, the men to whom college life is a disadvantage. Randolph, of life is disadvantage. Ran dolph of Roanoke, he of the biting togue. once remarked of an op- | ponent that he reminded him of cer- tain tracts of land which were almost | worthless by nature, and became en- tirely so by cultivation" Of course, if | any individual university training pro duces a taste for refined idleness, a ] distaste fer sustained effort, barren intellectual arrogance, or sense of supercilious aloofness from the world of real men who do the worlds work then it has harmed that individual; but in such case there remains the abiding comfort that he would not have amounted to much anyway Neither a college training nor any thing else can do much good to the man of weak fiber or to the man with a twist in his moral or intellectual makeup But the average undergrad uate has enogh robustness of nature, enough capacity for enthusiasm and aspiration, to make it worth while to turn to account the stuff that is in him.
 Not Too Much Luxury.
 There are. however. two points in the undergraduate life of Harvard about which l think we have right to feel some concern. One is the growth of luxury in the university. I do not know whether anything We can say will haze much effect on this point. but just so far as the alumni have weight hope to see that weight felt in serious and sustained effort against the growing tendency to lux ury and in favor of all that makes for democratic conditions. One of our number. the one whom I think the rest of us most delight to honor Colonel Higginson-has given to our alma mater the Harvard Union, than which no better gift, no gift meeting more vital need, could have been given to the university. It is neither possible nor desirable to try to take away all social differences from the student life; but it is a good thing to show how unimportant these diff ferences. are compared to the differ ences of real achievement, and com pared also to the bonds which should unite together all the men who are in any degree capable of such real achievement; bonds, moreover, which should also knit these capable men to their brethern who need help.
 The College Sports.
 The second point upon which l wish
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