The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-29

small number of scholars of the highest rank who will do productive work of the first class. Now turn 10 the sec ond, and what may be called the nor nal. function of the college. the fnilc- ton of turning out each year many hundreds of men who shall possess the trained intelligence, and especially the character, that will enable them to hold high the renown of this ancient seat of learning by doing useful ser vice for the nation. It is not my pur- pose 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 this spirit should be. Nor shall l speak of the exceptions, the men to whom college life is a disadvantage. Randolph, of Roanoke. he of the bling tongue, once remarked of an opponent that he reminded him of certain tracts of land which were almost. worthless by nature, and became entirely so by
 cultivation" Of course. if in any indi- vidual university training produces a taste for refined likeness. distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or q sense of supercilious aloofness from the world of real men
 who do the worlds real work. then ii 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 anything 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 aver
 age undergraduate has enough robust
 ness of nature, enough capacity for en- tllusiasm and aspiration, to make II worth while to turn to account the stuff that is in him.
 CONCERN FOR UNDERGRADUATE LIFE.
 There are, however, two points in the
 undergraduate life of Harvard about which I think we have a right to fec some little concern. One is the growth
 of luxury in the university. I do mol know whether anything we can say ! will have much effect on this point. but | | hope to see that weight felt In serious
 and sustained effort against the grow l ing tendency to luxury, and in favor o1 l all that makes for democratic eondi. | tions. One of our number, the ont | whom think the rest of us most de. l light to fonor-Colonel Higginson-ha: | given to our alma mater the Harvard | 5ph un haf 1af | gift meeting a more vital znsed, coult
 have been given to the university. | ! is neither possible nor desirable to try | to take away all social differences iron the student life; but it is a good thing ! to show how unitnportant these differ l ences are compared to the differences
 of real achievement. and compared alst to the bonds which should unite to | gether all the men who are in any de
 gree capable of such real achievement 1 bonds, moreover, which should a1st | knit these capable men to their breth ! ren who need their help.
 MANLINEsS IN SPORT.
 The second point upon which I wisi | to speak is the matter of sport. Nov
 I shall not be suspected of a tendency unduly to minimize the importance o
 sport. I believe heartily in sport. believe in outdoor games, and do no mind in the least that they are rnugf i games, or that those who take part il l them are occasionally injured. hay,
 no sympathy whatever with the over I wrought sentimentality which would keep young man in cotton wool, an( ! have a hearty contempt for him if ht counts broken arm or collar bone a: 1 of serious consequence. when balanced against the chanca of showing that h, | possesses hardiEood. physical address ! and courage. But when these inturie!
 are inflicted by others. either wantonl. or of set design, we are confronted b,
 the question, not of damage to the on,
 mans body, but of damage to the otine mans character. Brutality in playing game should awaken the hearties and most plainly shown contempt fo1 l the player guilty of it; especially if thi. 1 brutality is coupled with a low cunning | in committing it without gettins
 caught by the umpire. I hope to SC; | ion come to scorn such a man as ont guilty of base and dishonorable action who has no place in the regard of gal
 lant and upright men.
 l It is a bad thing for any college rnar
 to grow to regard sport as the seriou, | business of life. It is bad thing t | permit sensationalisrn and ilysteria t ] shape the development of our sports
 And finally it Is much worse thing t, | permit college sport to become in an, shape or way tainted by professional 1 ism. or by so much as the slightest sus | picion of money making: and this i especially true if the professionalism i, | furtive, if the boy or man violates tn, | spirit of the rule while striving to keel | within the letter. Professional sport i. | all right in It's way. I ann glad to sa, 1 that among my friends I number pro 1 fessional boxers and wrestlers, oars
 men and baseball men,, whose regard value, and whom in turn I regard a. 1 thoroughly good citizens. But the col | lege undergraduate who, in furtiv 1 fashion, becomes a sen1i-professional il an unmitigated curse. and that no I alone to university life and to tn,
 cause of amateur sport; for the colleg, graduate ought in after years to talk, the lead in putting the business moral | ity of this country on a proper plane 1 and he can not do it if in his own col | lege career his code of conduct hal