The university men of the times are the establishers of a kind of righteousness that is not always found in books.  Their individual value, as they go out into the world, is to set right values on social customs and decrees; to establish the law of freedom in the home; to lead men and women out of the thraldom of ignorance, vulgarity, hearsay, and “style,” into simplicity of living and a sane scale of household expense.  The university leader of the future is the man who shall set laws over household accounts and who shall rule over such simple things as what best to eat and buy.  He shall be an economist of the larger sort, providing for the spiritual necessities of men and their moral conduct, rather than for their balls, card-parties, and social side-shows, including church entertainments and philanthropic dances and bazaars.  He shall pave the way to a larger view of wealth, influence, and reform; endue man with a keener sense of his own responsibilities, make him a creature of larger desires and of more aspiring wants.

In particular, he shall pass down from generation to generation the high and noble learning of the past; he shall keep alive the flower of courtesy and charity; he shall tell the dreams of past sages, and interpret them; he shall review the thronging nations; and he shall so imbue the mind with a love of truth, of ideals, of excellence, of honor, that a new race shall go out into a larger and a nobler world.  And then a better day shall dawn for men.

6.  The Kings of State.  Says Milton, in his sonnet on Cromwell: 

                              “Yet much remains
     To conquer still; Peace hath her victories
     No less renowned than War:  new foes arise,
     Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. 
     Help us to save free conscience from the paw
     Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw.”

In the third moon of the year 1276, Bayan, the conquering lieutenant of Genghis Khan, captured Hangchow, received the jade rings of the Sungs, and was taken out to the bank of the river Tsientang to see the spirit of Tsze-sue pass by in the great bore of Hangchow—­that tidal wave which annually rolls in, and, dashing itself against the sea-wall of Hangchow, rushes far up the river, bringing, for eighteen miles inland, a tide of fresh, deep-sea splendor, and thrilling all who see or hear.

In the life of nations there are times and tides.  Against the tide-wall of history, beaten by many a storm, and battered by many a thundering wave, there is about to sweep the incoming wave of a new life for the race:  there is about to pass a greater than the spirit of Tsze-sue,—­even the Spirit of God!

     “We are living,-we are dwelling,
        In a grand and awful time,
     Age on age to ages telling,
        To be living is sublime!”

We are moving out into a period of great statesmen, and of great political standards and ideals.  The days before us are days which will make the Elizabethan era pale in history.  Upon the head of our nation are set responsibilities such as have never before rested on any one man.