The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

the churchman, the statesman The
Courtier, the man of science, or what
not. What is important, then, to the
greatness Of our college, and to you
is that the college should patiently
end passionately seek to know what
the supreme need of our time is and
after seeing that need as clearly as it
can, resolutely to satisfy it.
1t is a cOmmOnplace,-an | state
1t in its baldeSt fOrm-tO say that Che
time we live in is above all else a
practical time. 1t is called COM
mercial 1t is even said to have sold
out humanity's great ideas and ideals
to dollar standards of success: and it
is further said that education, and
particularly college education, has
lost its permanent values through be-
coming superficial AID practical.
College education has become
obviously practical in its tendencies
This is shown not only by the up
growth of specifically technical
schools, bat by the whole college cur
riculum. 1t is shown in our own cur
riculum by the courses called 'B. S.
Med; the combined A. b. and law
| course; the numerous engineering
| courses in which students at entrance
| definitely set out on the trail of their
! professions. But it is not true that
| the real values of college training
| have been set at nOught by this vOca-
| tiOnal inclination, and it is not true,
| in my judgment, that the college
| should belittle practical values, lament
| lack of worship at its ancient shrines
but that it should make clear how
| wholly essential to present practical
| life its permanent truths and methods
| are.
| The scientific revolution of the
| nineteenth century gave a new frame
| work to human thinking and to nu
| man conduct. 1t created a century
that is a great chapter in the histor,
Of the race But it was ineVita biz
that this great period was to be fol
lowed by period of application, IL
which the wonders of science and in
vention would be translated int
pra Ctice and give once again a nev
framework to our thinking and Ou
conduct, our material welfare an
through revolutiOniZed conditions o
human association of free men a
work in a world Of industry give s
a new philosophy of living and a neN
5 social conscience.
2 i This application Of the world
= knowledge to the every day practice
concerns of men has not lost or lower
Y ed any standard of learning. 1t ha
. Gc President GOOdnOW has said, mad
| the engineer out Of the mechanic, tn
G architect out of the carpenter, tn
e naval constructor out of the bOs
e builder 1t has interpreted huma
: labor in terms of intelligence; 1t he
q liberated human hands and minds
IS and it has liberated wealth for huma
|. comfort and enjoyment. The prOi
" lem of modern university educatC
e is not to combat the application
q abstract truth and the mastery Of no
t to do in addition to what TO know
: as relig and culture com bated II
o coming Of science. Behind the pra
It teal material. and commercial stan'
n ards of the new social order that Is
s the process of COnStruClOn there
" an idealiSm that it Is the obllSaut
le Of education to stimulate and lnterpr
IS in our everyday life. The activities
j. men have taken q new SHIFT. but Il
c single great art, as Professor AdaI
= SAYS. is now as always the art
"a living.
\ 1t is in making new and high
,e Interpretation to making a nNll
rs under a broader Interpretation OF