But  the  founders  of  Syracuse  Uni-
versity did  not  fail  to  appreciate  the
great  fact  that  it  was  to  be  located  in  a
world  which  men  must  study  and  with
which  they  must  become  acquainted,  its
material,  its  laws,  its  life  forms  in  ani-
mals and  plants,  its  strange  structures,
its  enemies,  from  microscopic  agents
to  visible  foes,  and  that  these  would
require  study  as  profound  and  patient
as  ever  mastered  Greek  roots  and
Latin  exceptions  in  their  highly  in-
flected forms. They  saw  the  ethnic
story  which  men  must  know  in  history
— the  work  which  must  be  done  in
literature  if  history  was  to  remain
more  than  tradition,  the  fundamental
principles  of  morals  and  thought  in
philosophy,  the  practical  arts  in  econom-
ics and  industries. They  saw  that
man  was  more  than  a  cave  dweller,
however  secure  he  might  make  his
cave. He  must  rise  into  realms  of  art
in  music  and  painting,  into  sculpture
and  into  architecture. They  saw  him
contributing  to  the  world's  sustenance
in  husbandry,  when  the  man  who
causes  two  spears  of  grass  to  grow
where  one  grew  before  becomes  a
public  benefactor. And  they  left  room
for  forest  culture  that  the  millions  of
acres  without  field  crops  might  yield
the  pine  and  spruce  in  perpetual
growth,  fostered  by  their  deciduous
neighbors,  while  they  all  stood  guard
over  the  sources  of  the  broad  rivers
and  streams  which  flow  from  the
mountains. And  for  whatever  is  left
over  that  may  come  out  of  the  future
needs  and  possibilities  of  the  races  of
mankind  is  prov'ded  in  the  plan  of
"that  which  is  expedient  and  neces-
sary."


THE  NEW  AGE  AND  EDUCATION

No  ancient  concept  nor  limited
theory  of  education  is  broad  enough
to  compass  the  demands  of  the  present
age. That  men  must  be  prepared  by
special  training  for  life's  great  work
all  intelligent  people  will  admit. And
that  this  great  life  work  is  no  longer
compressed  in  a  small  group  of  pro-
fessions, which  in  days  gone  were
called  the  learned  professions,  is  now
no  longer  a  contention. Life  has
mightily  widened  and  multiplied  and
it  is  the  duty  of  all  men  to  make  the
most  of  it,  for  the  unexpected  is
certain  to  come  out  of  it,  and  he  who
is  not  prepared  for  it  will  be  found
complaining  that  no  one  has  hired
him. 