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Social  intercoiirse,  however,  is  wider
than    college    clubs    and    organizations,
valuable  as  is  the  training  which  they
give.     There    is   more   general    training
which  relates  to  all  with  whom  each  comes
!    in  contact,  both  within  and  without  the
college  walls.     In  such  relations  certain
laws  and  conventions  have  arisen  natu-
)     rally,  and  have  f oimd  expression  in  canons
I     of  ethics  and  social  standards.     Of  the
j    more  fundamental  principles  the  most  are
1    known  already,  indeed  so  well  known  that
''knowledge  of  them  is  wont  to  outlast
1   knowledge  of  the  sciences  themselves."
\  The  practical  embodiment  of  such  prin-
ciples in  the  lives  of  men  and  women  is
quite  as  necessary  and  quite  as  difficult
as  ever.     The  college,  however,  should
impart  such  ethical  knowledge,  that  each
student  should  not  only  feel  his  obliga-
tions toward  the  decalogue,  and  his  per-
sonal responsibility  as  a  member  of  the


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community,  which  duty  may  be  made  so
evident  in  college,  but  should  also  be  made
to  understand  that  intelligence  and  sound
ideals  are  needed  in  the  solution  of  the
wider  and  more  complex  problems  of  our
ethical  and  political  life.  Further,  that
laws  exist  therein  which  do  not  change
either  at  the  will  of  popular  majorities  or
at  the  desire  of  the  unpoptilar  rich,  but
that  beyond  the  power  of  successful  or
unsuccessful  greed,  or  force,  to  sway  or
influence,  exist  the  natural  norms  of  life
and  conduct  in  conformity  with  which
alone  a  good  life  may  be  constructed,  an
ideal  life  attained,  by  the  individual  or  by
the  State.
