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ing, standing up for freedom of scientific inquiry against the tides
that rolled in upon him, stood unmoved in the tumult, steadfast in
the strength of science, history, the humanities, and the religion of
Jesus which mustered to his almost lonely side. Many business men in
these hard times are draining their reserves and are taking their
losses standing up in order that people may have work and food.
Editors, with courage for opprobrium and financial loss, have fought
the fight of the inarticulate peoples and of despised minorities. Phy-
sicians daily minister to the bodies, minds, and spirits of broken men.
Rabbis, priests, and preachers come out of lonely vigils to sustain the
sympathies, courage, and faith of men in cruel times. To lawyers,
doctors, pharmacists, teachers, journalists, manufacturers, business
men, scientific engineers, social engineers, farmers, statesmen, and
ministers of religion; to them with the depth of a specialized mastery
and the cultural breadth of an imaginative mind, there open pro-
fessional opportunities as wide as the needs of the people.

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

But a group of professional schools around the college do not
make a university. Without a graduate school there can be no univer-
sity. Postgraduate courses do not make a graduate school. The Ameri-
can Association of Universities, essentially an association of graduate
schools, founded in 1900 by Presidents Eliot, Gilman, and Harper in
the interest of excellence in graduate research, holds as one of its
present requirements for membership that a university be equipped
in faculty, laboratories, general library, and special source materials
to give the degree of doctor of philosophy in five departments. How-
ever adequate be the laboratories and supplies, departmental libraries
and source materials, carrells, seminar rooms, and all the valuable
facilities for thorough research, without great scholars the whole
apparatus of research may become as so much sounding brass. There
can be no great graduate school and no great university without great
teachers. A good part of a lifetime given by day and by night on scant
income to the deep exploration of a field is the price of the scholarship
of the master. No smattering and no sham; only thoroughness and
excellence among the masters. Several groups of these masters, dis-
tinguished in different fields, prevent unchecked specialization in any
one field. These various groups of eminent scholars, seekers for truth,