This mental and physical depletie
which conies from being satisfied wi
a past success cannot be better iib
troted than by some of the facultl
Of our old COllSgSS. Now, the colic
faculties of both the east and the we
were originally made up of picked nu
The president! and trustees of thc
institutions in almost every case i
looted the very brightest ami best si
dents of their classes. They were t
honor nie>n of tho colleges who we
aske'd to fill the honored professor
chairs. Hut. marvelous to say. althou
the college faculties of the old insti
tions in my day had been recruit
from tho brightest men, yet ainu
without exception those faculties li
a largo poreentaei- of men who seen
to bo simple relics of tho past. Tl
seeine-d to be mummified mon, ont ir
out of touch with present day eve!
They were walking "cube'roots" or
carnated "dative cases" or petrified
amples of Doric or Corinthian arc
tecture. They seemed to be mon v
bad learned one thing well, but ns s
as they had mastered that one line
study all their mental faculties w
then allowed to become dormant. T
they withered up into a fossilized
embalmed old age.
