The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-20

Now that / have left its gates. peo-
ssste often ask me How did you ike
ffnryard - and I invariahae reply.
ssVe~y uurh indeed. / met lot OF
! fhe ruen there And I have come
- believe Of late that therein hes the
chief value Of any university cdnea
zion. d. ret mean that association
.M sse studen; with the student oods
/ - much as do that undeQnaote
something that comes TO student
sh~narh his daily association with a
-s$Nsssxay veAe is able. both because
IN his personality and his pedagogical
aNsfstseS 10 arouse in the student An
3nt.sss, in a subject and the aH1ei-
.icn 10. II possible, master it's com
-,iexitses
To be quite frank went 70 Har~
ard with soeptisism ] had somehoW
s,een of the belief thst the typtcal
,4Farvard professor wars heavy rsgpnsed
glasses always psased his students
Il, on the streets without SPEAKING,
srd did innuraerahle other things 70
n,afe himself different from "ther
ren. II IL true that some OF the
men -hoyi | met al Harvard were 81
rather conservative type. ! suppose
heir kind will he found ia every large
Institution. but certainly saw NO
--o-- @. n~su at Harvard than I haa
AZ Columbia or any Of the other uni
.rsi,.es whose campGsxs | have IRE
auertee during NY apparently harum-
sraruYr quest for knowledge / nav"
the has Of travelling from place 20
Mace. stopping wherever I find
man "a no interests me- ] do not give
a r,r for the university 11e teaches
in for ! become sufficiently Interested
In The man and The subject h. teaches
10 forget the institution except of
,l;rse wi1eu I aTa forced to do so
by the unceremonious arrival Of bills
from the hurssr.
One dav. shortly before the close
nj the war I CHANGED to be IN BoS-
ton, and thought ! would run over
Z n Cam bridge and spend n few hours
looking over the university Of which
had heard such dubious things and
devious opinions Being especially in
teres-ed in the natural sciences,
made nv way 70 the Peabody
museum, and summoned enough
nerve to knStk on the first door
saw which happened 10 be Profes
sor woodworth's Excepting colo
rebuke or at best an impersonal sor'
Of an interview. | was delightfully."-
surprised when little pleasant faced
old man opened the door. looked M
owe. and without further ado invited
me to come within the portals of ;
geologis.'s study. Instead OF sitting
as had pictured myself stiffiy OF
the edge cf chair, hands folded II
my lap. talking in abated tone~y
feft peculiarly at ease the moment
entered the presence Of this quizzical
~ human little man l do not re
mem Der the conversation, or what
was entirely about: ] know though
thar 1t did not concern merely geology
for / remember conversing humor
ouely upon the peculisrities of Sout
American travel. and comparing note
j about jungle life. he telling me hi
es:perfences and | once in whil'
venturing one Of my own which
strangely 1t seemed to me, appesre
really to interest him ] though
that anything seen or done By a NE
student would be OF little intere'
4 to such a learned person. But surel
I had miss calculated my man,
It was not until an hour land ha
had passed that I took my departuT
from his presence, my ideas aho'
Harvard professors strangely upse
determined that I would spend a fe