Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-06-28

| cast or life as a blending OF college idea
| lisr with Christian optimism, may sug-
gest. Let us take for our theme "The
| Standardization Of Life"
| This Is the dco which the college once
stood for--which oxford and Cambridge
and few New England colleges still
stand for. But the invasion Of the time
spirit, the large intrusion of unitarian
studies, the CONSEQUENT change of atmos-
phcre ano temper. raise tho question
whether our American universities and
colleges are any longer the refugees of
Iidealism and the guardians Of the spirit
;ual life. No instructed critic of cduca-
tional conditions wishes to restore the
old hierarchy OF studies or the old regime
of discipline, but Ii Is essential to the
maintenance Of our civilization on n high
jsplritual level that in some way the col
llegc, as the student and interpreter of
man and of life. shorld assert and main
ttain the supremacy of tho things of the
Esprit in a generation mainly intent on
things material. If VIC have any hope Of
arrcs'ing a civilization fast tending tow
ard the moral standards of imperial Rome
land Pompeii and the Paris of the Jeuncsse
Idorce the mon of light and leading
among us must hold perpetual levy Of
their forccs-thc church must summon to
the work all who will he on the Lords side
1.-THE prophets must cry aloud and spare
not-and institutions of learning and all
educational forces must array themselves
to the support Of the influences that pur-
ify and elevate and spiritualize human
life.
First We must appreciate and apply
, to It's highest use the sense of beauty,
which is an integral and universal at
tnhuate OF humanity ana was Intended to
d" refining ana splrltuallzlnE iniiNnce IN
all life. There is no surer sign OF God
presence ana touch IN creation than
, beauty. winch Is the expression or his
love Tor what nc creates what pleasure
nc must nave IN making the beautiful
things ana beings with "hch his universe
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