a veteran, and our country to-day is full of these young men. To-morrow their force will show in national politics, and in that moment the fate of the Malay, the food of the Russian prisoner, the civilization of South Africa, and the future of Japan will be seen to have been in issue. These world problems are now being settled in the contest over the town-pump in a western village. I think it likely that the next thirty years will reveal the recuperative power of American institutions. One of you young men may easily become a reform President, and be carried into office and held in office by the force of that private opinion which is now being sown broadcast throughout the country by just such men as yourselves. You will concede the utility of such a President. Yet it would not be the man but the masses behind him that did his work.

Democracy thus lets character loose upon society and shows us that in the realm of natural law there is nothing either small or great: and this is the chief value of democracy. In America the young man meets the struggle between good and evil in the easiest form in which it was ever laid before men. The cruelties of interest and of custom have with us no artificial assistance from caste, creed, race prejudice. Our frame of government is drawn in close accordance with the laws of nature. By our documents we are dedicated to mankind; and hence it is that we can so easily feel the pulse of the world and lay our hand on the living organism of humanity.

APPENDIX

FOR REFERENCE

CHAPTERS I, II. LEARNING TO WRITE

Aydelotte, Frank: College English, "Writing and Thinking.” Bennett, Arnold: Literary Taste and How to Form It; How to Become an Author; The Truth about an Author; Journalism for Women; The Author's Craft.

Goethe, J. W.: Maxims in Prose; Conversations with Eckermann.
Jonson, Ben: Timber or Discoveries.

Joubert, J.: Pensées, translated by Katharine Lyttleton.
Raleigh, Sir Walter: Style.

Stevenson, R. L.: Memories and Portraits, "A College Magazine";
Essays of Travel and in the Art of Writing.

Symonds, J. A.: Essays Speculative and Suggestive, "Is Music the Type or Measure of All Art ?"

Thackeray, W. M.: Roundabout Papers, "De Finibus."

Trollope, A.: Autobiography, especially chapters II, XII, and XIV.

CHAPTERS III, IV. WHAT IS COLLEGE LIKE?

Corbin, J.: An American at Oxford; Which College for the Boy? Crawford, Marion: Greifenstein, chapters VI to IX-"Life at a German University."

Fitch, G.: At Good Old Siwash.

Flandreau, C. M.: The Diary of a Freshman; Harvard Episodes. Gibbon, Edward: Memoirs, the section on Gibbon's life at Oxford. Hill, G. B.: Harvard College, by an Oxonian.

Hughes, T.: Tom Brown at Oxford.

Johnson, Owen: Stover at Yale.

Lange, A.: Oxford.

Wallis, W. D.: "The Oxford System versus Our Own:" The American Oxonian, January, 1915 (2:5), reprinted from The Pedagogical Seminary, June, 1912.

CHAPTERS V, VI, VII. WHAT IS COLLEGE FOR?

Briggs, Le Baron R.: College Life: Girls and Education.

Emerson, R. W.: Representative Men, "The Uses of Great Men." Huxley, T. H.: Science and Education, "A Liberal Education and Where to Find It."

Newman, J. H.: The Idea of a University, discourses V and VII. Wilson, Woodrow: The Spirit of Learning. (Reprinted from The Harvard Graduates' Magazine in Essays for College Men.) Wister, Owen: Philosophy, 4.

CHAPTERS VIII, IX. COLLEGE AthleticS

Aydelotte, Frank: "Spectators and Sport," Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, April, 1915 (2:111).

Corbin, J.: An American at Oxford, pp. 255-271.

Derby, R. A.: "The True Object of Organized Athletics," Outlook,

October 5, 1907 (87: 254).

Stewart, C. A.: "Athletics and the College," Atlantic Monthly, February, 1914 (113: 153).

CHAPTERS X, XI, XII, XIII. COLLEGE INTERESTS AND

ACTIVITIES

Arnold, Matthew: Discourses in America, "Literature and Sci

ence."

Caird, John: The Study of Art.

Eliot, C. W.: Present College Questions.

Huxley, T. H.: Science and Education, sections VI, VII.

Hyde, W. D.: The College Man and the College Woman.
Rice, Richard, Jr.: "The Educational Value of Co-education,"
Independent, December 5, 1912 (73: 1304).

Ruskin, John: The Crown of Wild Olive, "Traffic."

Stevenson, R. L.: "On the Choice of a Profession," Scribner's Magazine, January, 1915 (57: 66).

CHAPTERS XIV, XV. WHAT IS RELIGION?

Drummond, Henry: The Greatest Thing in the World; The Natural Law in the Spiritual World.

Emerson, R. W.; English Traits, “Religion."

Fiske, John: The Destiny of Man; The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge; Through Nature to God.

James, W.: Human Immortality.

Myers, F. W. H.: Science and a Future Life.

Santayana, George: Poetry and Religion, "Understanding, Imagination, and Mysticism."

Swift, J.: The Tale of a Tub.

The Message of the College to the Church, a course of Sunday evening addresses in Lent, 1901, delivered in the Old South Church, Boston.

CHAPTERS XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX. THE PURPOSE of Life

Benson, A. C.: From a College Window, "Habits."

Bryant, W. C.: "Thanatopsis."

Emerson, R. W.: Representative Men, "Napoleon"; Essays (first series), "Self-Reliance," "Intellect."

Hyde, W. D.: Self-Measurement.

James, W.: The Will to Believe, first two essays.

Johnson, Samuel: Rasselas.

Roosevelt, Theodore: The Strenuous Life, "Civic Helpfulness," "Character and Success," "Brotherhood and the Heroic Virtues"; Autobiography.

Stevenson, R. L.: Virginibus Puerisque, "El Dorado," "The English Admirals," "Aes Triplex," "Child's Play."

Tennyson, A.: "Locksley Hall," "Maud."

Vanderlip, F. A.: Business and Education.

Wordsworth, W.: "The Character of the Happy Warrior."

CHAPTERS XXI, XXII, XXIII. A PLACE IN THE WORLD

Bagehot, W.: Physics and Politics, "The Use of Conflict." "The Age of Discussion."

Bennett, Arnold: The Author's Craft, "Seeing Life."

Burke, Edmund: Thoughts on the Present Discontents; Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol; Reflections on the Revolution in France, the section on "Conservative Reform."

James, W.: The Moral Equivalent of War.

Murray, G.: Is War Necessary?

Spencer, Herbert: "Progress: Its Law and Cause," Westminster Review, April, 1857.

Wallas, Graham: The Great Society, Introduction, etc.; Human

Nature in Politics, Part II, "Official Thought," "Nationality and Humanity."

Wells, H. G.: Mankind in the Making, "The Cultivation of the Imagination"; First and Last Things, especially Book II; Anticipations, "The Larger Synthesis," "Faith, Morals, and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century."

OCT 25 1915