The San Francisco call., 1905-06-29

right sort OF student No frst-cl8ss science
no hrst-class literature or art. can ever be
built up with second-class men. The schol-
arly career the career of the. man OF letters
the man OF arts, the man of science must
virile youths who now feel that they can only
turn 10 business, law politics.
BETTER PAY FOR SCHOLARS.
There is no one thing which will bring about
this desired change but there is one thing
which Will materially help in bringing il
about. and that is TO secure 10 scholars the
chance OF getting of @ few brilliant posi-
tions prizes il they rise to the FIRST rank
in their chosen career. Every such brilliant
position should have as an accompaniment an
added salary. which shall help indicate how
the efforts Of the alumni which alone
cure such salaries for such positions.
As A people | think we are waking up 10
the fact that there must be better pay for the
average man and average woman engaged in
the work of education. But am not speak
ing OF TINS now; am not speaking or the
desirabilHy. great though that Is. of giving
better payment to the average educator: l am
speaking Of the desrability OF giving TO the
exceptional man the chance OF winning
ceptional prize, just he has the chance to
do in law and business In business at the
present day nothing could be more healthy
than an immense reduction in the money value
OF the exceptional prizes thus TO be won; but
In this country We rightly go upon the theory
that Il is more important to care for the vel
isre of the average man than TO put pre-
MUM upon the eSertions of the exceptional.
But we must not forget that the establishment
ot such premium for the exceptional. though
OF less Importance, is nevertheless of very
great Importance. Ii IS importsnt even to the
development OF the average man, for the aver
age Of all Of US is raised by the work of the
great masters.
WORK OFFERS OWN REWARD.
1t is. l trust. unnecessary to say that i an
preciate 10 the fun 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
iof the nation must from the very nature OF
things be non-Temunerstive as compared with
the work OF the ordinary industries and voca-
tlons. Nor would IL ever be possible or desr-
able that ths rewards of transcendent success
IN scholarship should even approximate from
monetary standpoint, the rewards in other
vccations But il is also true that the effect
upon ambitious minds cannot but be bad Il.
as q people, we show very slight regard
tor scholarly achievement by making pro-
vision at all for its reward. The chief use of
the increased money value of the scholar s
prize would be the index thereby afforded Of
the respect in which il was popularity held
The American scientist, the American scholar
should have the chance al least of winning
such prizes as are open TO his successful
brother in Germany, England or France, where
the rewards paid FOR hrst-class Scholarly
achievement are much above those paid in
this country as our rewards fer first-cIass
achieNeIf-ent in INDUSTRY law above those
paid abroad.
But of course what counts infinitely more
than any possible outside reward is the syiiric
OF the worker himself: The primo need is to
instill into the minds OF the scholars them
selves true appreciation OF real as distin-
suished from sham success. In productive
scholarship, In the scholarship which adds by
its work TO the sum of substantial achieve
ment with which the country Is to be credited.
II is only hrst-class work that counts. In
this field The smallest amount of really first
class work is worth ali the second-class work
that can possibly be produced: and to have
done such work is in itself the fullest and
amDlest reward to the man producing it. We
outsiders should according to our ability aid
him in every way TO produce it, Yet all that
we do is but little compared to what he
himself can and must do The spirit of the
scholar is the vital factor in the productive
scholarship OF the country.
LUXURY DENOUNCED.
SO much for the first junction Of the unfver-
sity. the sending forth OF a small number OF
scholars OF the highest rank who VIII do pro-
ductive work Of the first class. Now turn 10
the second. and what may be called the nor
NAL. function of the college, the function of
turning out each year many hundreds of men
who shall possess the trained intelligence and
especially the character. that will enable then,
to hold high the renown OF this ancient seat
81 learning by doing useful service for the ma
ton IL is not my purpose to discuss, at
length what should be done IN Harvard to pro-
duce the right spirit among the men who go
1 out Of Harvard but rather to speak OF what
/ this spirit should be. Nor shall speak of the
/ exceptions. the men TO whom college life is a
! disadvantage
Randolph of Roanoke. he of the biting
/ tongue. once remarked Of opponent that he
reminded him of certain tracts of land (which
were almost worthless by nature. and became
J entirely SO by cUfffatiOn. OF II in
any individual university training produces a
taste for refined idseness. a distaste for sus-
! tained effort barren intellectual arrogance,
or & sense Of supercilious aloofness from the
world Of real men who Do the worlds real
work. then Il has harmed that individual but
| IN such case there remains the abiding com
fort that he would not have amounted to much
] anyway. Neither college training nor any.
thing else can do much good to the man oi
weak fiber or to the man with q twist in .hi'
I moral or intellectual makeup. But the aver
age UNDERGRADUATE has enough rhbustnesss al
nature enough capacity for enthusiasm and
accsunt the stuff that is In him:
There are, however, two points I'm the
UNDERGRADUATE life Of Harvard about
which = think have right 10 fee
some little concern. Ono is the growth
of luxury I'm the university. / do no,
know whether anything we can say
will have much effect on this point, bul
lust SO far as the alumni have weight
I hope to see that weight felt in seriou,
and sustained effort against the grow.
| ing tendency TO luxury, and I'm favor o.
all that makes for democratic con.
ditions.
One OF our number-the one whom | thin
! the rest of us most delight to honor-Colone
| Higginson-has given TO our alma mater tn
1 Harvard Union than which no better gift M
! gift meeting a more vital need, could have beer
| given 10 the university 1t is neither. possible
nor desirable to try to take. away all social diff
| ferences from the student life: but II is a goo
! thing 10 show how unfmportant these differ
| ences are compared TO the differences of rea
| achievement. and compared also 20 the bond
| which should unite together all the men VIII
| are in any degree capable OF such real achieve
| rnent; bonds moreover, which should also kni
/ these capable men to their brethren who nee
] their help
EVILS OF COLLEGE SPORT.
The second point upon which wish to speal
Is the matter of sport Now shall not be sus
pected of a tendency unduly TO minimize tn
importance OF sport. believe heartily in sport
] ] believe in outdoor games. and l do not min
in the least that they are rough games. tina
those who take part in them are occasionally
injured have no sympathy whatever wit
the overwrought sentimentality which woul
keep young man in cotton wool. and have
hearty contempt for him IL he counts O. broker
or collar bone as of serious consequence
when balanced against the chance of shoyTin
that he possesses hardihood. physical addres
and courage. But when these injuries are IN,
ficted by Others either wantonly or of set de
sign. we are confronted by the question not q
damage TO one mans body, but of damage I
the other mans character Brutality in pIay
ing a game should awaken the heartiest an
most plainly shown contempt for the playe
| guilty Of II: especially II this brutality /
coupled with a low cunning in committing
without getting caught by the umpire i hon
| TO both graduate and undergraduate opinio
come TO scorn such man guilty of has
| and dishonorable action. who has no place 4
the regard OF gallant and upright men.
1t is a bad thing for any college man to gro,
II is a bad thing to permit sensationalisrn. an
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