The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . ropology to the few, but by allmeans give opportunities to the pathfinders of our greatheritage. Teach them, as well as the chosen of thecloister, how to work, live more nobly, and progress. Too long have the dreamers in the seats of learningperpetuated with their esoteric groups the methods of the13th century: scholastics in practice; alchemists in butanother guise. The thinkers dwell apart, while the prac-tical toilers remain fitting descendants of the bondmen ofanother age. The universities must come closer to thepeople who need assis


The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . ropology to the few, but by allmeans give opportunities to the pathfinders of our greatheritage. Teach them, as well as the chosen of thecloister, how to work, live more nobly, and progress. Too long have the dreamers in the seats of learningperpetuated with their esoteric groups the methods of the13th century: scholastics in practice; alchemists in butanother guise. The thinkers dwell apart, while the prac-tical toilers remain fitting descendants of the bondmen ofanother age. The universities must come closer to thepeople who need assistance and daily help. The univer-sities to-day are largely to blame for that age-long divisionof society into the educated and refined few on the onehand, and on the other hand the untrained many to whomall opportunity of higher education has been denied. But there are signs that education is beginning to lookout from her long sojourn in academic shades and collegegroves. Among the subjects on curriculums to-day we Log Branches of the Frontier Biila, 1015. T- r~ ~^F iJj^U i^ 1- ^Ji^^J^m^i ^g, ^•*Sp^ iRI ml flH^^^ i Loring, 1908.


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