ability often fail in life because they are unable to play their
part with effect. They are shy, awkward, self-conscious, deficient
in manners, faults which are as ruinous as vices." The supreme
end of college training, he said, "is usefulness in after life."
Similarly, when the city of Cambridge celebrated in Harvard's
Memorial Hall the life and death of the gallant young ex-governor
of Massachusetts, William E. Russell, men did well to hang above
his portrait some wise words he has lately said, "Never forget the
everlasting difference between making a living and making a life."
That he himself never forgot; and it was well to remind citizens
and students of it, as they stood there facing too the ancient
words all Harvard men face when they take their college degrees
and go out into the world, "They that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness
as the stars for ever and ever." Good words these to go out from
college with. The girls of Wellesley gather every morning at
chapel to bow their heads together for a moment before they scatter
among the libraries and lecture-rooms and begin the experiments
of the new day. And always their college motto meets the eyes
that are raised to its penetrating message, "Not to be ministered
unto, but to minister." How many a young heart has loyally
responded, "And to give life a ransom for many." That is the
"Wellesley spirit;" and the same sweet spirit of devout service
has gone forth from all our college halls. In any of them one
may catch the echo of Whittier's noble psalm,--

"O Lord and Master of us all
Whate'er our name or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine."