Leonidas Polk Family Papers

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man and man, man and nature. As man's relations to God were the highest of which he could conceive; as all his knowledge came from God and all his truths, the truths concerning God and man were those which gave meaning and sequence to his knowledge.... The medieval university was rationally ordered, and, for its time, it was practically ordered, too. But these are other times; and we are trying to discover a rational and practical order for the higher learning of today."

More recently President Griswold of Yale has been laboring valiantly to shake this country out of the trance which blinds it to the needs of its educational system. With great energy and eloquence he has been elucidating "the irony of a situation that calls on higher education for the greatest effort in its history and at the same time places seemingly insurmountable objects in its way." Practically, President Griswold is concerned with the crisis in teacher-enlistment, owing to the failure of salaries to keep pace with the rising standard and cost of living. He realizes that the problem lies in the realm of personal