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the scholar who instructs, directs and
plans, whose work shall stand ever
prominent in the eyes of the world?
''But how are we to designate the
class of the scholar" l am asked. In
the distribution of the functions of
mankind the scholar is the delegated
intellect. In the right state he is man.
thinking. In the view of him as man,
thinking, the theory of his office is
contained His nature solicits with
all her placid, all her mOnitory pic
lures. Him the past instructs; him
the future invites. Is not, indeed, ev-
cry man a student. and do not all
things exist for the students hehOof?
And finally, is not the true scholar the
only true master? But the old oracle
said: "All things have two handles;
beware of the wrong one" In life too
often the scholar errs with mankind
and forfeits his privilege.
In self-trust all the virtues are COM
pretended. Free is the scholar. free
and brave, free even to the definition
of freedom, without any hindrances.
that does not arise out of his own
constitution Brave, for fear is
thing which a scholar, by his very
function. puts behind him. Fear al
ways springs from ignorance. 1t is a
shame to him if his tranquility amid
dangerous times arises from the pre-
sumption that like women and chill
dren his is a protected class. Or, If
he seeks a temporary peace by the
diversion of his thoughts from politics
and vexed questions, hiding his head
like an ostrich among the towering
bushes, peeping into microscopes and
twining rhymes as a boy whistles to
keep his courage up, so is the danger
still: so is the fear worse; but, man
like, he turns and faces it. He looks
into it's eye, searches it's nature, in
spects it's origin which lies no great
way back, and finds within himself a
perfect comprehension of its nature
and extent. He makes both hands
meet on the other side, and hence
forth defies it and passes on superior
The office of the scholar is to cheer,
to raise and to guide men by showing
them facts amidst appearances. | at
firm today that the wealth and the
power and the security and the sue
cess of existing nations are exactly
what the scholars of those nations
have made them What is and long
has been the secret of the power of
England? You will say: Her well
balanced government. her almost per-
feet administration of law, her navy,
her vast industries, her educated peo-
pie. and her experts in every known
science" But who are those who
maintain that we'll balanced govern
ment? Who administers her laws?
Who builds and commands her navy?
Who multiplies her industries; who
develops her resources, and who gath
ers tribute for old England from ev-
erywhere and everything? There
stands the grand answer-The schol-
ar from Oxford, Cambridge, Edin-
burgh, and the like.
t0Il va, ,,O1,v yyipto
ries of Sadowa and Sedan were won in
the school rooms and work shops? 1t
was educated artillery to which Aus
tria so readily courtesied, and before
the approach of which France, haugh-
ty France, lifted her crown, yielded
her capital and bowed in humility.
Observe that wherever the people
are the scholar must be there also, if
he is to carry on his work. D'Arta-
gon, Aramis and Quentin Durward had
to go to Paris to the capital to seek
the sovereign if they were to serve
the state. But with us the sovereign
is working in the mines of Lake Supe-
rior; the sovereign is herding cattle
in Colorado; he is feeding the world
from the wheat plains OF Dakota OBJ
serve also that the hands of the gov
eminent are no longer turned by war
presidents and popular heroes, but
from the bosom of proud Princeton a
scholar, yea, mighty scholar, yields
the governing hand and directs our
era through prosperity.
The scholars of America of this
generation must be esponsibla for the
future of America. That future will
be anything they now command From
every portion of this dear old nation
there comes this day the earnest. anH-
ious voice to them, saying: Shall you
command, or shall you serve? Shall
you rise. or shall you fall yet lower?"
Gathering in my own the voices of
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