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Changes large and momentous are beginning to take place in our physical, moral, political and commercial life, and the one great agency foremost in the working of the transformation toward saner and better things is the shoulderto-shoulder unity of purpose of the educational institutions of the country. They are half the soul of the nation. Educators may disagree on questions of ways and means, but there are no disagreements regarding the ends to be attained. For union and the strength thereof look to the institutions of higher education. The public too often regards the quarrel as one of enmity instead of one of solidarity, and therein the mass deceives itself. Perhaps this is one reason why the people-at-large and the institutions, of which they are a part, do not fully realize the changes that are slowly but surely taking place in the various activities of the nation. The people ―aye, even the leaders of the people— are beginning to feel the weight of the change, but instead of realizing the source of the new power many seem to be groping about grappling with an unknown strength which they see not, neither do they understand. The new power is our educational institutions. The old order is changing, and the change is only just beginning. No longer is the teacher a recluse surrounded by academic walls and the history of the ages. Today he is actively engaged in the affairs of here and now. A knowledge of the past helps him to understand the present and gives him a foreboding of the future. He imparts the needs of the present and the future to the student, and the student goes forth to conquer with the new and the better. Take a hasty world's survey of the present, see the college and its leaders engaged in every form of activity, and then try to think what all this will mean ten or twenty years hence. In political reform and in the carrying forward of investigations of corruption, the college professor is a leader. In the work of playgrounds, the abolition of child labor, and the betterment of the poor and the ignorant and the oppressed, who are the leaders? The college men and women. Who are driving the White Plague from the land? The schoolmen. When the commission was appointed to spend the million dollars donated by Mr. Rockefeller to stamp out the hookworm, eight of the twelve men were found to be professors. The majority of the census enumerators for next year, including the director of the census, are men prominent in the college world. The rescue work in the mine disaster of last month was conducted by professors and by those trained by these professors. The commission that will try to place the tariff on a scientific basis will be composed largely of university professors. In the campaign for woman's suffrage the college woman is taking an active part. The church, the press, the theatre, and the social life of the nation-all are feeling the influence of the work of college and university. The changes being wrought in the industrial and agricultural fields are too many for adequate comprehension, and yet the work in these departments is in its infancy. The professor is trained to work for the good of all rather than for the good of self, and this alone should give him welcome into the world's activities. And if he imparts even the smallest particle of self-effacement to the students who pass his way, the effect on the world and its institutions will be large. There still are persons who think that the teacher should do nothing and concern himself with nothing but teaching. But this is not progress. Those qualified best for leadership should lead. The more our educational institutions become the soul of the nation the greater will become the nation. Ignorance opens the way for corruption and tyranny. Education deposes the self-interested leader and brings forward the higher type of man who works for the com mon good. In the growth and ever widening influence of education and her institutions lies the hope of a better country and a happier people. Education and the World's Work That the foregoing is not composed of idle dreams we have but to look squarely in the face a few current facts. A New Jersey teacher took part in a meeting where questions of a socialistic nature were discussed. Certain opposing interests sought to have him removed and the board of education was ready to do the bidding, but the teacher's vigorous reply attracted attention and brought to his aid an element that could not be ignored, and so the board retreated from its position and he was permitted to remain. The much-discussed case of Dr. Edwin C. Moore, city superintendent of schools of Los Angeles, is another instance where selfinterest tried to block the educational facilities of a community. But Dr. Moore was in the right-he was working for the common good-and the united strength of education brought to an end a three years' struggle, and more and better school buildings are being erected in the California city. It is an admitted fact that the University of Wisconsin and its influence is changing the political complexion of that state. The election of Professor Charles E. Merriam to the city council of Chicago and the work he is doing as a member of that body has attracted wide attention. And so the list might be continued. There may come a time when the fight will be more noticeable than now, for it is certain that those who value self-interest above all things else are not going to see the old order change without a struggle. The value of education in all lines of endeavor is constantly being attested. James J. Hill is asking the government to build one or two less battleships a year and devote such money to the establishment of an agricultural high |