make your own atmosphere," was the parting advice of my college
president, himself a living illustration of what he said.

But it is a short step from the love of the complex and engaging
world in which we live to the love of our comrades in it. Accordingly
the third precious interest to be cultivated by the college student
is an interest in people. The scholar today is not a being who
dwells apart in his cloister, the monk's successor; he is a leader
of the thoughts and conduct of men. So the new subjects which
stand beside the classics and mathematics of medieval culture are
history, economics, ethics, and sociology. Although these subjects
are as yet merely in the making, thousands of students are flocking
to their investigation, and are going out to try their tentative
knowledge in College Settlements and City Missions and Children's
Aid Societies. The best instincts of generous youth are becoming
enlisted in these living themes. And why should our daughters
remain aloof from the most absorbing work of modern city life,
work quite as fascinating to young women as to young men? During
many years of listening to college sermons and public lectures in
Wellesley, I always noticed a quickened attention in the audience
whenever the discussion touched politics or theology. These are,
after all, the permanent and peremptory interests, and they should
be given their full place in a healthy and vigorous life.

But if that life includes a love of books, of nature, of people,
it will naturally turn to enlarged conceptions of religion--my
sixth and last gift of college life. In his first sermon as
Master of Balliol College, Dr. Jowett spoke of the college, "First
as a place of education, secondly as a place of society, thirdly
as a place of religion." He observed that "men of very great