College and Commonwealth

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Excerpt from College and Commonwealth: And Other Educational, Papers and Addresses Coming in this second year of world war, to a college founded largely by the efforts of a great American Secretary of War, who wrote into its original charter specific mention of military tactics as a subject of instruction, to a college whose seal bears the epaulet of a great soldier of freedom (with a somewhat contradictory legend - veritas liberabit), to a college whose name is that of a great Frenchman, beloved of Washington and remembered by the American people as General Lafayette rather than as the marquis of high lineage, as statesman or as reformer, to a college situated in this narrow valley which resounds day and night with the straining, agonizing efforts of locomotives, to set forward on their way of destruction tons of shells and projectiles, it might be expected that I should speak of education for war, or appraise the place of the college in a civilization where the steel shell seems final arbiter and the scholar's position no whit different from that of Archimedes in Syracuse twenty-two centuries ago, whose scholar's boast, "Give me where I may stand and I will move the world, " was quickly brought to naught by the ignorant soldier of Marcellus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.