the opposing candidates in a sharply fought election have grown
great friends in college boats and laboratories; and before her
diploma is won she realizes how much richer a world she lives
in than she ever dreamed of at home. The wealth that lies in
differences has dawned upon her vision. It is only when the rich
and poor sit down together that either can understand how the
Lord is the Maker of them all.

To-day above all things we need the influence of men and women
of friendliness, of generous nature, of hospitality to new ideas,
in short, of social imagination. But instead, we find each
political party bitterly calling the other dishonest, each class
suspicious of the intentions of the other, and in social life the
pettiest standards of conduct. Is it not well for us that the
colleges all over the country still offer to their fortunate
students a society of the most democratic sort,--one in which
a father's money, a mother's social position, can assure no
distinction and make no close friends? Here capacity of every
kind counts for its full value. Here enthusiasm waits to make
heroes of those who can lead. Here charming manners, noble
character, amiable temper, scholarly power, find their full
opportunity and inspire such friendships as are seldom made
afterward. I have forgotten my chemistry, and my classical philology
cannot bear examination; but all round the world there are men
and women at work, my intimates of college days, who have made
the wide earth a friendly place to me. Of every creed, of every
party, in far-away places and in near, the thought of them makes
me more courageous in duty and more faithful to opportunity, though
for many years we may not have had time to write each other a
letter. The basis of all valuable and enduring friendships is not