The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-24
PRESIDENT ON
STATES RIGHTS.
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you permit 1t to hamper and Interfere
with your doing your full duty III the
real work Of the world.
Productive Scholarship Needed.

OF briliancy or mind or OF strength OF
body will atone Harvard must do more
than produce students; yet after all.
she will fail immeasurhbly short Of her
dutyHnnd her opportunity unless she pro-
tiuces n great number OF true students,
or true scholars. Moreover, let the stu
dents remember that In tho long run In
the field Of study Judgment must DO
rendered upon the quantity Of flrst-class
work produced In the way of productive
scholarship. Iand that no amount OF soc
ond-c class work tan atone for failure In
the college to produce the first-class work
a course OF study Is OF little worth IL
IL tends To dcnden Individual Initiative
and crnmp scholars so that they only
work In the r,lts worn deep BY many
predecessors American scholarship will
DO Judged, not BY the quantity Of rou-
tine work produced by routine workers.
but by the small amount Of nrst-cluss
output OF those who. in whatever branch.
stand in the first rank. No industry in
compilation and in combination viii ever
take the place of this iirst.hand orlgi-
nal work, this productive and creative
work, whether In science, In art, In lit
icrattre. The greatest special function
OF n college. as distinguished from It's
general function Of producing good citi-
zenship. should he so to shape conditions
as to put n premium upon the devel-
opmcnt OF productive scholarship, Of the
creative mind. In any form OF intellec-
tuaI work. The men whose chief con-
ccrn lies with the work OF tile student
IL. study should bear this fact ever
before them.
College Men in Politics,
So much for what have TO say TO
you purely as Harvard men. Now, n
word which applies to you merely as it
applies to all college men. to all men in
this country who have received the bene-
fits OF college education; and what l
have TO say on this topic can properly
be said under the auspices OF your Po-
iitca! Club. You here when you gradu-
ate will take up many different kinds
OF work; but there Is one work in which
all of you should take part simply as
, good American citizens, and that Is the
work Of self-government. Remember. in
the first place, that TO take part In the
work OF government does not In the least
mean Of necessity TO hold office. 1t means
TO take an intelligent. disntcrested and
practical part In the everyday duties OF
the average citizen. OF the citizen who
IS not Il faddist or doctrinairc but
who abhors corruption and dislikes in
efficiency; who wishes to see decent gov
eminent prevail at home. with genuine
equality of opportunity for all men SO
far as IL can be brought about; and who
wishes. us far as foreign matters are
concerned to see this nation treat all
other nations, great and small. with re-
spcct, and II need be. with generosity,
and at the same time show herself able
to protect herself by her own might from
any wrong ut the hands OF any outside
power.
Each man here should feel that he has
no excuse, as a citizen In Il democratic
republic like ours. 81 lie fails to do his
part In the government 1t is not only
Ills right to do SO, but his duty; his
duty both TO the nation and to himself.
Each should feel that. II he fails in
this, he Is not only falling III his duty
hut Is showing himself In a contemplate
light. A man may neglect his political
duties because he Is too lazy. too sell
fish. TOO shortsIghted, or too tlmid; but
whatever the reason may be. 1t IL GER
inlnly an unworthy reason. and II shows
cit!ierFa weakness or worse than weak
Iless In the mans character. Above all,
YOU college men, remember that II your
& education. the pleasant lives you lead,
make you too fustidious. too sensitive to
take part In the rough huryburly of the
actual work OF the world. II you be-
come so overculuvatcd. so overrchned
that you cannot do the hard work of
practical politics, then you had better
never have been educated Mt all. The
weakling and the coward are Out OF place
In a strong and free community
Forfeits Of Fastdiousness.
IN republic like ours the governing
j
who take the trouble to do the work OF
government: and ii you are too timid
or too fastdious or too careless to do
your part in this work, then you forfeit
your right to be considered one of the
governing and you become one OF the
governed instcad-one OF the driven cat
lie of the political arena. ! want YOU
10 feel that 1t Is not merely your right
To take part in politics. not merely your
duty to the State, but that II Is demanded
by your self-respect, unless you are con-
tent TO acknowledge that you are UNFIT
TO govern yourself and have to submit
( to the rule OF somebody else as mas
ter-and this is what it means II you
do not do your own part In government.
Like most other things Of value, educa-
ton Is good only in so far as 1t Is used
Alright, and II 1t Is mlsused or II 1t causes
the owner to be SO pulled UP with pride as
To make him lnisestimate the relative
values of things. it becomes a harm and
not n benefit. There are few things less
desirable than the arid cultivation. the
learning and refinement which lead merely
10 that intellectual conccit which makes
a man in democratic community IKE
ours hold himself aloof from his fell
lows and pride himself upon the weak
ness which he mistakes for supercllious
strength. Small Is the use OF those edu-
Gated men who. in after life, meet no one
but themselves. and gather In parlors to
discuss wrong Condltions Wnlcn tley 90
not understand and to advocate remc-
dies which have the prime defect Of
being unavoidable. The judgment on prnc-
teal affairs, political and social, OF edu-
Gated men who keep aloof from the con-
ditions of practical life, Is apt to be
valueless to those other men who do
really wage effective war against the
forces Of bnseness and OF evil. From
the political standpoint education Is
harm and not benefit to the men whom
IL serves as an excuse for refusing to
1ningle with their fellows and for stand
ing aloof from the broad sweep OF our
national life in a cnriously impotent spirit
of fancled superiority.
Worse Than the Uneducated.
Tho political wrongheadeaness Of such
men is quite as great as that OF wholly
,ineducated men; and no people could