The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29

has the right to expect from her sons a
high sta ndard of applied morality, whether
their paths lead them into public ire. int
business or into the great profession OF
the law, whose members are so poten,
in shaping the growth Of the national
soul.
PRACTICAL WORK NEEDED.
But in addition to having high Ideals
II cannot too often be said to a body s'ich
as is gathered hero to-day that together
with devotion to what is night must go
practical efficiency in striving for what Ia
right. This IL a rough, workaday, prac-
tical world and If in II we are to do the work
best worth doing. we must approach that
work In spirit remote from that OF the
mere visionary. and above all remote from
that of the visionary whose aspirations
after good find expression only in the sha Fe
of scolding and complaining.
1t shall not help 's If weavoid the hcylla
of baseness OF motive only to be wrecked
on the Charybdis Of wrongheadedness, OF
feebeness and inefficiency. There can ne
nothing worse for the community than to
have the men who profess lofty Ideals
impracticable, as to cut themselves on
from communion with the men who are
actually able to do the work of governing,
the work of business, the work OF the pro-
LESSONS. -,
II ia a sad and evil thing If the men with
teal zealots, while the men Of action grad,
ually grow to discard and laugh at al moral
sense as an evidence Of impractical weak
ness. Macaulay, whose eminently sane
and wholesome spirit revolted not only at
W akin sss, but at the censorlous folly wh On
dition OF Scotland at the end OF the seven
teenth century in a passage which every
sincere reformer should keep constantly
before him:
at is remarkable circumstance that
the same country should have produced
in the same age the most wonaer.u, spec
mems Of 10th extremes OF human nature
Even in things Indifferent the Scotch Purl-
tan would hear Of no compromise; and ne
was but too ready to consider all who recon-
mended prudence and charity as traitors
to the cause Of truth. On the other mana.
the Scotchmen Of that generation VINO mace age
a figure in Parliament were the most ois-
honest and untlushing time-seryers that the
world has ever seen. Perhaps it Us natural
that the most callous and impudent vice
should be found in the near neigh or ood
OF unreasonable and impractical lie virtue.
Where enthusiasts are ready TO Destroy OF
lie destroyed for trif1es maguhed into I'M
portance by squeamish conscience, II ls
not strange that the very name OF conscience
should become byword of contempt TO cool
and shrewd men OF business
The men who go out from Harvard into
burden Of RESPONSE ility. The only waythey
can show their gratitude to their alma mater
is by doing their full duty to the nation as a
whole and they can do this full duty only If
they comtine the high resolve to wor k for
what is est and most emo ling with the no
less resolute purpose to do their. work in such
fashion that when the end OF their Gays
comes they shall feel that they have actually
achieved results and not merely talked OF
achieving them.
The President attended q dinner at the
Somerset Club tonight, the guests being
number of classmates and other intimate
friends Of Mr.. Roosevelt. The President Is
TO leave at 2 A. NJ. for Oyster Ray. He will
go on board the naval yacht Syiph at
Bridgeport at 100 and is scheduled to reach
Oyster Bay about ii o'clock.