Arizona republican., 1905-06-29

remaIked of an opponent that he re- minded him of certain tracts of land which were almost worthless by na- ture and became entirely so by culti- vation." Of course if in any indfvid-
 ual university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren inteIIec-
 tual arrogance, or a sense of supercil-
 ious aloofness from the world of real
 men who do the worlds real 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 college training nor any
 thing else can do much good to the
 man of weak fiber or to the man with
 twist in his moral or intellectual
 makeup. But the average under
 graduate has enough robustness or na-
 ture. enough capacity for enthusiasm
 and aspiration, to make it worth while to turn to account the stuff that is in him.
 There are, however, two points in the undergraduate life of Harvard about which I think we have a right to feel some little concern. One is the growth of luxury in the university. l do not know whether anything we can say will have much effect on this point but just so far as the alumni nave weight l hope to see that weight felt in serious ard sustained effort against the growing tendency to lux ury and in favor Of all that makes for democratic conditions.
 The president dweIt at length with regret upon the tendency to profes- sionalism in athletic sports for the reason that thus athletics would be- come the serious business of life He preferred that there be a greater wide spread active participation in college athletics and less of the cultivation of interest which found expression in the attendance of college games as mere onlookers.
 IDEALS.
 In conclusion the president said:
 But in addition to having high ideals It can not too often be said to a body such as is gathered here today. that together with devotion to what is right must go practical efficiency in striv- ing for what is right. This is a rough workaday practical world, and if in It we are to do the work best worth doing, we must approach that work in a spirit remote from that of the mere visionary, and above all remote from that of the visionary whose aspira- tions after good find expression only in the shape of scolding and complain ing It shall not help us if we avoid the Scylla of baseness of motive, only to be wrecked on the Charbydis of wrongheadedness, of feebleness and in 1 efficiency. There can be nothing worse for the community than to have the men who profess lofty ideals show themselves so foolish, so narrow, so impracticable. as to cut themselves off : from communion with the men who are actually able to do the work of gov l erning. the work of business. the work of professions. It is a sad and evil thing if the men with moral Sense group themselves as impractical zealots. while the men of action grad | uelly grow to discard and laugh at all l moral sense as an evidence of imprac- | tical weakness. Macaulay, who's. en- inently sane and wholesome spirit re- l volted not only al weakness, but at the | censoriOus folly which masquerades as virtue. describes the condition of Scot 1 land at the end Of the seventeenth cen | tury in a passage which every sincere! reformer should keep constantly before him.
 Tt is a remarkable circumstance that the same country should have pro- duced in the same age the most won derful specimens of both extremes of human nature. Even in things indif- ferent the Scotch Puritan would hear Of no compromise; and he was but too rea dy to consider all who recommend ed prudence and charity as traitors to the cause of truth. On the other hand, the ScOtchmen of that generation who | made a figure in parliament were the most dishonest and unblushing time servers that the world has ever seen. Perhaps II !s natural that the most iI ,dlious and iC. pIdent vice should be i- 'ound in the rear neighborhoOd of un- reasonable aEC impracticable virtue l Where cn.il;ss'; sts are ready to de stroy or be destroyed for trifies magni- lied into il. 'lo-tance by a squeamish conscience it is not strange that the tcly' name Of conscience should become } hyword of contempt to cool and 5hreWd men pf business"
 The men who go out from Harval q HtO the great world of American lifo bear a heavy burden of responsibility ] The only way they can show their gratitude to their alma mater is byI ioing their full duty to the nation as ! whole; and they can do this full luty only if they combine the high re- 'olve to work for what is best and most ennobling with the no less reso- ute purpose t. do their work in suyh ashiOn that when the end of the'T jays comes they shall feel that they ave actually achieved results and -a merely talked of achieving them.
 Besides the more pretentious events f today, the presidents program in luded d brief visit to the Germanic museum, where he sent a cablegram O the German emperor, thanking him or his gifts to Harvard, luncheOns at he Porcelain club and the chief mar hals headquarters; tea at the resi- ence of President Hart and dinner at he Somerset club. t
 During the early evening the presi- ent found time for conference with . Secretary Taft on matters relating to ! he Panama canal and also to give at ention to certain cipher messages .