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Title: Record of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy-six of Princeton university
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Princeton university. Class of 1876 Harrison, Henry Lewis, (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: (New York, The Grafton press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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itself a university, but itis nothing of the sort. We ought to have a widercurriculum in our scientific school. We need alaw school and a medical school. We need to ex-pand. And in order to do so we have got to out-grow our old narrow, hide-bound traditions, whichteach us that Latin, Greek and mathematics are thesum and substance of the higher education. Wemight as well hold that reading, writing and arith-metic constituted a high school course. 7. This is where I fall down, I have not quiteformulated my views on life yet. If you will permitme to define it as life in these United States, I cansay this, that a man who devotes himself to anysort of intellectual pursuit must make up his mindto get most of his rewards in his inner life, for hewill find himself despised by the great mass of hisfellow men, for the simple reason that he does notmake large sums of money. In this free land of•ours, and especially in the mighty city of NewYork, only two things count—money and social po- 52
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sition. And the latter is the product of the for-mer. Intellectual men are debarred from socialstanding in this country, solely because they havenot money. And the moneyed class regards allpeople who do things, artists, authors, musicians,inventors, etc., as their servants, created for thepurpose of amusing them. It is, of course, opento the artistic and intellectual men to pretend thatthey do not notice this, but as the great mass oftheir fellow men follow the lead of the rich andfashionable, the attitude of society toward the doerand the thinker is unmistakable. If I had my lifeto live over again, and were ambitious to be re-garded as a great and good man in this country, Ishould enter the pork packing business or try toget a job as a railroad president. I certainly shouldnot decide to be a college president, or afamous novelist, or a great composer, or amaster painter. But I have found it possibleto get considerable comfort out of life with-out being a great and good man, and I sup

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