than the instrument with which it works; the character than the circumstances which furnish its setting. And the man of wide culture, in whom a free and surpassing moral force matches his faculty, ennobles his knowledge, and crowns his accomplishments, will be grander than all this opulence of equipment. Whatsoever has been best in civilization will have come in him to consummation; and every University which has helped its students toward that attainment will have brought therein its richest reward to the faith which founded it, to the ceaseless generosities which have given it expansion, to the wisdom and forecast and faithful fervor with which its affairs have been administered.

Young Gentlemen, now going forth from these halls, or tarrying in them to still further advance your studies: a voice from a verdant grave at St. Johnland has seemed to bid me speak as I have done. One in whom that which I have roughly and rapidly outlined was at least partially realized, has, in fact, addressed you. I would take to my own heart the lesson which thus is commended to yours, and would feel for myself that this imperative Manliness-fine in fiber, but unyielding in force, which makes one sympathetic with others, yet independent of them, superior to vicissitudes, self-poised and temperate amid all oppositions, with every purpose undisturbed, and every power in easy play, though passion assail him, and the times repulse and reject his impression-that this is really the prime requisite for every scholar who would use his opportunity to the noblest advantage; that a conscientious, yet a thoroughly impassioned moral energy must supplement this; and that both will find the supplies of

their strength in the undecaying and governing conceptions of God in his majesty, and of Man in his immortal relations. The amplest learning, the most brilliant dexterity in logical play, the biggest brain, weigh light as punk if these essential moral powers are not present. A humbler force associated with them becomes transfigured, and rains reviving inspiration upon men. The admiration which men give to decorated speech, to graceful fancy, to gifts of song or tricks of wit, is as nothing to the honor which they pay instinctively to this royalty in the spirit, by which they are exalted, refreshed, reënforced; on which they rest with grateful satisfaction in the hour of public doubt and peril; from which they take, in every time, impressions most deep and most abiding.

May it be the glory of our civilization that this is realized in largest measure in many among us; that here examples, more numerous and more signal than have elsewhere been shown, are presented to the world, of those whom schools and colleges have trained, to whom sciences have been opened, and wealthy literatures in many languages, but who, above all, represent, in the temper which animates their life, the glorious courage and unresting energy, springing from the impulse of immortal convictions, by which power is consecrated, life made exultant, influence crowned.

May this institution do its full share, in the future as in the past, for such a result; and when we come to review our life, from the point where time for us is ending, may we feel, each one, that, however humble our place has been, and however limited our acquisitions, we have, in spirit, matched the work to which

we were called; that we have been faithful, fearless, free; we have done with our might what our hands found to do, especially when it was dangerous or hard; and that we have, therefore, won our right in the successive victorious ranks of those whom the world may not remember, but from whom in their life it took the impressions, at once salutary and strong, which can come only from the resolute, inspiring and inestimable service of Manly Scholars.

VIII

THE BROADER RANGE AND OUTLOOK OF MODERN COLLEGE TRAINING

An Address delivered at Amherst College, June 28, 1887, at the Semi-centennial Celebration of the Amherst Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.