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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt:...the necessary equipment of the univer STATUTE MILES 0 50 I00 I50 200 250 300 sity. Teachers full of faith and enthusiasm are the sine qua non of the college. As flame kindles flame, so the genius for living is kindled in the heart of the student who is so fortunate as to find great teachers. "He fixed my destiny in life" said Thomas Jefferson of William Small, a member of the faculty of William and Mary College. Many great teachers in our American colleges have guided thousands of earnest students into paths of service and honor. Recognition of the gifts of the colleges to the life of the nation prompted a recent editorial writer to say of the colleges: "They are the fountain heads of patriotism; the life springs of national courage and devotion; the inspiration' of the people; the sacred shrines of the ideals and the abnegations, which far more than her material prowess, make a nation great." The same writer quotes with approval an English estimate of Oxford and Cambridge, emphasizing the relation of these historic universities to the life of the nation; "The main intention of Oxford and Cambridge," said the English writer "is to encourage a spirit among the young men of England which looks instinctively beyond utility and is conscious of a call to account very strictly to the world for such talent or power as a man may have." The Field ITS AREA HAT has already been said suggests LIFE WORK OF COLLEGE that the field of the college is more than GRADUATES EFORE passing to the description of the 10,323, g6_6/0 more material aspects of the field of col lege activity it will be interesting to note the work of college graduates and their relation to the life of the community as...