often come from the masses themselves,
instinctively moving toward a better order. The University's graduates
must be fitted to take their places naturally and effectually in the
common life of the time.

But the University is called especially to justify its existence by
giving to its sons and daughters something which they could not well
have gotten through the ordinary experiences of the life outside its
walls. It is called to serve the time by independent research and by
original thought. If it were a mere recording instrument of conventional
opinion and average information, it is hard to see why the University
should exist at all. To clasp hands with the common life in order that
it may lift that life, to be a radiant center enkindling the society in
which it has its being, these are primary duties of the University.
Fortunate the State which gives free play to this spirit of inquiry. Let
it "grubstake" its intellectual prospectors and send them forth where
"the trails run out and stop." A famous scientist holds that the
universal ether bears vital germs which impinging upon a dead world
would bring life to it. So, at least it is, in the world of thought,
where energized ideals put in the air and carried here and there by the
waves and currents of the intellectual atmosphere, fertilize vast inert
areas.

The University, therefore, has a double duty. On the one hand it must
aid in the improvement of the general economic and social environment.
It must help on in the work of scientific discovery and of making such
conditions of existence, economic, political and social, as will produce
more fertile and responsive soil for a higher and better life. It must
stimulate a wider demand on the part of the public for right leadership.
It must extend its operations more widely among the people and sink
deeper shafts through social strata to find new supplies of intellectual
gold in popular levels yet untouched. And on the other hand, it must
find and fit men and women for leadership. It must both awaken new
demands and it must satisfy those demands by trained leaders with new
motives, with new incentives to ambition, with higher and broader
conception of what constitute the prize in life, of what constitutes
success. The University has to deal with both the soil and sifted seed
in the agriculture of the human spirit.

Its efficiency is not the efficiency which the business engineer is
fitted to appraise. If it is a trainin