EDITORIAL


349


of commerce, a school of journalism, a
school of pedagogy growing out of
and existing within the college of let-
texis and science, all pointing to the
tendency to make education serve defi-
nite and specific ends, to fit for spe-
cific tasks, and at the same time, and
not at a separate time, nor in a way
apart, give those cultural studies which,
have so great and true a value.
  We see students in the junior year
of the Univetlsity entering the law
school, and pursuing, side by side, their
cultural studies in the College of Let-
ters and Science, and their professional
studies in the college of law.
  We see President Van Hise deliver-
ing a baccalaureate addreiss whose key
note is the attainment of efficiency.


Taking it for granted that he was ad-
dressing a group of cultured young
men and women, the president very
properly relegated to the rear, for the
time being, the pursuit of research and
the spirit of study, and talked "down
to the ground" of those common every
day qualities which make for efficiency,
and which certainly do not interfere
with culture. If more such speeches
were made, not only at Commence-
ment time but during the academic
course, perhaps relative values would
ýsink more accurately into the con-
sciousness of the student. Culture
would stand revealed as crippled with-
out efficiency, just as efficiency is crip-
pled without culture.


The Magic Formula.


  The history of mankind is filled
with the records of the search for
formulas, whereby men may, with
absolute certainty, produce much
desired results. Long and ardently
did the wise men of old seek the
formula which would enable them
to transform the baser metals into
gold. The formula for the preser-
vation of eternal youth was a vainly
sought out problem of the bygone
centuries. Today, the young man
or woman, -entering upon the thresh-
hold of a career 'searches eagerly for
the magic formula which shall spell
success. Is there a formula-the
following of which shall certainly
and beyond doubt bring to the
faithful observer thereof the meed
of sucess which is his wish?
  From   times immemorial, proph-
ets and sages have delivered them-
selves of wise sayings and exce-llent
proverbs for the guidance of our
lives. Few   of them    have dared,
however, to formulate a science of
success. So uncertain is the span of
life, so much subject to fortuitous cir-
cumstance is the career of man that


the formulation of any complete s'et
of rules by the observance of which
given  results are guaranteed   has
rarely, indeed, been attempted.
   Machiavelli, with skill and daring
in  his famous book      called the
Prince, compiled a handbook of
worldly success so practical in its
treatment that it commended itself
as. an actual rule of life to his con-
temporaries.   The daring Italian,
however, left out of consideration
the moral elements which       have
steadily become more and more rec-
ognized as the just and proper
"rules of the game."
   Nowhere dr- ---- know of a better
'exposition of the modern science
of success that is contained in the
baccalaureate address   of President
Van Hise printed on another page-
a splendid example of applied com-
mon sense. The president is a 'scien-
tist, used to deai:ng with definite data,
a man of large experience and much
observation. When he, therefore,
lays down certain rules of conduct
which he believes will produce suc-
cess, it is not with the vagueness of


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