The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-06

ascrfbed to the skill of the faculty: but there is also the vital fact that all l these young men are til1ing the same field. Now no sensible man would propose to-day to set up a fixed cur riculum in order that all undergrad uates might be joint tenants of the same scholastic property; but the in- tellectual estrangement need not be as wide as it is. Might there not be more points of intellectual contact among the undergraduates. and might not considerable numbers of them have much in common?
 "A discussion of the ideal college training from these three different as poets, would appear to lead to the con clusion that the best type of liberal aducation in our complex modern world aims at producing men who know little of everything and some thing well.
 That student of ability can learn one subject well is shown by the ex- perience of Oxford and Cambridge Their honorS are designed to ensure that the candidate knows something well; that he has worked hard and in telligently on one subject until he has substantial grounding in it.
 .'The social relatio of the under graduates among themselves are quite as important. That university must reflect the state of the world about it and that the tendency of the times is toward specializat ion of func- tions and social segregation on the basis of wealth are not wholly true, because there is happily in the coun- try tendency also toward social sol idarity and social service. still more conclusive answer is that one object of a university is to conteract, rather than copy, the defects in the civilization of the day. large col- lege ought to give it's students a wide horizon, and it fails therein unless it mixes them together so thoroughly that the Friendships they form are based on natural aff1nities.
 ."The change from the life of the school to that of college is too abrupt at the present day. It would seem that the difficulty could be lessened if freshmen were brought together in a group of dormitories and dining ed the possibilities of college life and took a keen interest in their work and their pleasures. Such plan would enable us also to recruit our students younger, for the present age of entrance appears to be due to the nature of the life the freshmen leads.
 President Pritehett has declared that it is serious indictment of the standards of any organization when the conditions within it are such that success in the things for which the organization stands no longer appeal effectively to the imaginations of those in it. The College Freedom and the College of Discfp1ine' Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1903, p, 609.)lJo one will deny that in our colleges high schol-s arship is little admired now either by the undergraduates or by the public. We do not make our students enjoy the sense of power that flows from mastery of a difficult subject, and on higher plane we do not make them feel the romance of scholarly explo- ration.
 sThe university touches the com serve the public through ever increas- ing channels But all it's activities are more or less connected with, and most of them are based upon, the col lege. It is there that character ought to be shaped, that aspirations ought to be formed. that citizens ought to be trained, and scholarly tastes im- planted. If the mass of undergrad NAtes could be brought to respect, nay to admire, intellectual achievement on the part of their comrades, in at all the measure that they do athletic vic tory; if those among them of natural ability could be led to put forth their on the objects which the col lege is supposed to represent; the pro- fessional schools would find their tasks frightened, and their success enhanced. A greater solidarity in college, more earnestness of purpose and intellectual enthusiasm would mean much for our nation.'
 Schubert's choral ''The Great Jeho- yah" boomed out as President Lowell and then followed the pres- entation of degrees to eminent educa- tors and others in attendance on the 
 At the conclusion of this ceremony the Right Rev. William Lawrence, of Massachusetts pronounced the benediction just as the bells of nearby churches broke into a silvery chime of "Fair Harvard in honor of the first president inducted since for ty years ago Charles W. Eliot assum- ed the robes of his office as the he-Tav of Harvard.
 This afternoon the Harvard Alumni Association gave a luncheon to the delegates from the other universities. the faculty of Harvard and the invit- ed guests. A luncheon will also be served by the faculty of Radcliffe Col lege to the ladies accompanying the Later the Harvard Alum nj Association meets in Memorial