South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-01

, d what the sanity Newman meant
when ne said, that neither buildings
nor equipment nor endowment have
/ ever made a great school Have
! your university in shanties If neces-
sary.' said he, but have great men
in them The first requisite, then
| for success in our work IS that we
come under the influence OF great
teachers, that We come in a teach
able mood that we have a sensitive
and open mind 10 every good and
enObling influence. The more we
learn. the more clearly becomes the
vision OF the heights still TO be
reached, for inschOlarship, as in
the spir tual life, it is true. as it is
true in mountain climbing Hills
rise on hills. and Alps on Alps
arise Doubtless, there may be
perils in mountain climbing but as
/ in physical experience, as in spir-
itual experience, the wise climber
is roped 20 guide who keeps him
from the dangers of the cnasm and
from falling 20 destruction on the
rocks below The student and the
teacher who by faith and innocence
and daily prayer, and especially
humility, are bound by chains OF
love 10 the Master Of all knowledge
and of all goodness need fear no
perils
The first great defect then in
teacher As well as in pupil is lack
Of faith in the goodness Of learning,
~ faa. g
( Viction about this. there is little
personal desire for knowledge.
Many of Us who live in religious
communities, for example meet
with great enthusiasm for virtue
and the pursuit OF holiness. and in
all human experience there is moth
ing 50 beautifully worthy of pursuit
and desire as virtue. Yet. how far
more radiantly fair virtue is when
/ enthronel in the same heart with
science, or literary charm. or his
torical scholarship, or philosophical
erdution, And as the test of a re
ligious life is not contentment with
I virtue already attained, but a de-
! sire for larger and larger growth in
| virtue. so the test OF all good teach
ing is the degree in which it fixes
/ upon the student the desire for
srowth and knowledge.
In the beatitude which forms
my text our Lord says not. Blessed
are just but, Blessed are they that
hunger and thirst after justice. SO.
| i'm our religious vocation, the law
7 laid upon US is not that we be per-
feet. but that we strive after per
lection. Virtue is d relative term,
and so is knowledge. What makes
human life divine is not its accom-
plishment in the search for either
/ virtue or knowledge. but the per-
petual aspiration after these things.
Il have read OF a great artist
who. when asked by his friends to
! be shown his supreme painting. led
them into his study where upon an
easel stood a blank canvas, and TO
their astOnished look OF inquiry, he
answered, This is my masterpiece.
/ have painted it a hundred times
in my imagination but never have
been able 10 imprisOn it on the can
vas. But II haunts me day by day
and in some happy hour 1 hope to
realize it.. That represents the as
piration of every worthy teacher
| AS a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he Whoever is satisfied with a
/ second rate accomplishment in
learning or piety must forever re-
main a second rate man. 1t is as
/ piration that makes character. and
| it is aspiration in the long run that
is the measure Of success. What
sOever a man desires in his youth,
says Goethe. that shall he have in
his age, and as much as he will
Enemies of Scholarship.
A third notable defect in the
average student and teacher is an
unwillingness to strive and suffer in
patience in order to attain knowl-
edge. The test OF the value YOU set
upon learning is the question: what
are you willing TO pay for it in eff
fort? The measure Of your desire
for learning is the question: what
are YOU willing 10 endure for IL?
| Comfort is an enemy of scholarship.
! Incidence, or brain laziness. is an
enemy of scholarship. Haste and i'm
patience are enemies of scholarship.
are enemies Of scholarship,
- The heights by great men won
and kept.
Were not attained by sudden
flight,
But they. while their companions
slept.
Were toiling upward in the night
"Omnivorous reading Is an enemy
of scholarship. Irregular diet of
even the best fiction is an enemy OF
/ scholarship. The newspaper. when
! read more than a few minutes in
/ the leisure of each day is an enemy
Z OF scholarship. Concentration per-
severed in will make a great scholar
( out of any student Of even moderate
I talent in a few years.
/ And why, dear friends, should q
/ priest speak of such things as learn
ing in this temple OF God? Because
! for US scholarship and teaching are
among the chief means OF saliva
/ ton. There Is this difference be-
/ tween a vocation and a profession.
you take up a profession for what
/ YOU can get out OF IL. YOU take up
a vocation for what YOU can put in
20 il. The man is the master OF
l his profession he is the slave of his