he seemeth to have." For it is the young life which is open and
prepared to receive which obtains the gracious and uplifting
influences of college days. What, then, for such persons are
the rich and abiding rewards of study in college or university?

Pre-eminently the college is a place of education. That is the
ground of its being. We go to college to know, assured that
knowledge is sweet and powerful, that a good education emancipates
the mind and makes us citizens of the world. No college which does
not thoroughly educate can be called good, no matter what else it
does. No student who fails to get a little knowledge on many
subjects, and much knowledge on some, can be said to have succeeded,
whatever other advantages she may have found by the way. It is
a beautiful and significant fact that in all times the years of
learning have been also the years of romance. Those who love
girls and boys pray that our colleges may be homes of sound learning,
for knowledge is the condition of every college blessing. "Let no
man incapable of mathematics enter here," Plato is reported to
have inscribed over his Academy door. "Let no one to whom hard
study is repulsive hope for anything from us," American colleges
might paraphrase. Accordingly in my talk today I shall say little
of the direct benefits of knowledge which the college affords.
These may be assumed. It is on their account that one knocks
at the college door. But seeking this first, a good many other
things are added. I want to point out some of these collateral
advantages of going to college, or rather to draw attention to some
of the many forms in which the winning of knowledge presents itself.

The first of these is happiness. Everybody wants "a good time,"
especially every girl in her teens. A good time, it is true, does