The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-06

| respects we need to direct education once more quite definitely to citizenship and religion and character. though our definition of citizenship will differ from that of the Greek, and our definition Of religion and character from that of the mediaeval church.
 Presents Combined Achievement
 s.The university today represents the thought of the Greeks, of the men of the Middle Ages, and of the men of the Re- naissance, together with all that science and literature, human thought and human achievement have added since to the sum total of the worlds knowledge
 Tn entering a university men assume 1 obligations and responsibilities. As a re- suit of that act the world expects and l has the right to expect of them more than it expects from other men. Superb | ority should be the result of the use they have made of the superior opportunities l for development. They have enlarged knowledge, increased intellectual power | from contact with men of trained minds. The difficulties which they have exper- 1 fenced, their doubts and problems, and l those of their associates have given them first hand knowledge, in laboratory method. as 1t were, of the intellectual and | spiritual struggles of the race and the means of winning the final victory. The university world in which they live has been made up of picked men. represent, 1 ing many races, creeds, traditions and | civilizations. They have the chance to test their beliefs, the value of their ideals. the correctness of their mental processes l by intimate association with men whose mental processes, beliefs, and ideals are perhaps different from their own, men whom they see for several years living their lives while they live theirs. By all this they are influenced and moulded. | Greater Catholicity
 From all this result greater catholcity f6f views. charity of opinion. regard for men with whom they cannot always | agree the recognition of many things as unimportant that they formerly thought | essential, and relative that they once thought absolute. They learn that things to which they had given no thought have been powerful influences on them and on the world. that the light of every star in their heavens is part of the light In | which they live, though they do not see l the stars when the sun is shining. In tellectual development during a plastic and formative period of life changes their views from that of uniformed. or Ill., formed. assurance to modest confidence | In what they know From faith without knowledge and without thought they come to the position of asking why and all | though they seem to receive no answer | to many of their questions, they still be- | lleve-a deeper, truer faith. They desire to know things as they are. If possible. or at least to have sound basis In fact | from which they may endeavor to draw 1 correct conclusions. From unreasonlng boys they become thinking men. They | look back, within. ahead. They call to their aid history philosophy, prophecy.
 "They are fitted for leadership if all that we believe of them Is true. leader is man by whose achievements others benefit whose example others strive to | emulate. He Is a man who, with superior | knowledge, by force of character and per sonality, so impresses his fellows that they give to him their confidence and en- deavor gladly to carry out his ideas be- lieving them to be best. Sacrifice is often the price of some kinds of leadership but | 1t is the kind of sacrifice that marks the 1 struggle between the apparent good of the individual and the real good of tho race.
 Call for Leadership
 | From countless directions there comes to the university graduate the call of leadership; not always to war againSt evil. though often that; not always to public life, but to intellectual, moral, spir- itual leadership in the circle or communi- ty in which he Is usually found to be Q sincerely humble worker. By leadership l the procession. That is often not leader ship. The university man who is leader will never be described as "A certain Thrasybuus of the ward of Stira who had the strongest voice of any man among the Athenlans." Leadership will not depend on the mere possession of particular kind of knowledge, but. as was said. in Harringtons Oceana. of a com monwealth. There is something in the making and ruling a commonwealth which (though there be great diynes, great lawyers, and great men in all profes- sions) seems to be peculiar only to the genius of a gentleman
 "Or in another form from a Sanskrt
 hymn;
 Nor study. sacred lore, nor birth
 The Brahman makes: tis only worth
 "High thoughts seated In a heart of l courtesy the fundamental characteristics of q gentleman-these, if the best in uni versity life touches men. are their pos session, as well as that concrete, cate gorical information Of whatever kind they came to the university to acquire.
 Century of Transformation
 "A century has seen the transformation | of this nation from a small provincial people to a world power in politics, com- merce and industry and also in literature and art. Specialists are applying scien- l tiic knowledge to the relief of human suffering, to the problems of conquermg the environment and to the transforming of mere matter into wealth. The healing of disease and the easing of pain. the dis covery and removal of the causes of dis ease, the adjustment of the relations of man to man on legal or equitable basis the government of bodies polite, the con- duct of commerce and industry, the dis covery and application of the laws of na- ture, animate and inanimate. to the use of man. the bridging of rivers and tun- neling of mountains, the harnessing of steam and electricity to do mans work. to drive his locomotives and ships to light his city, to transport his thoughts through space, the moulding of building material into forms Of beauty, the preser- vation, through literature and art, of the great and beautiful ideas of the race, the appreciation of the intellectual and spirit ual heritage, the recognition through all these of the one intending purpose and the means of it's accomplishment-all this and more Is included in the university's work.
 "There is q training broader than that of any profession or technical course | which university men receive. Our pro fessional schools are insisting more and more on the necessity Of broad folnda- tons for special training, and, allowing