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ship,but to labor for the whole community,to be "tribunes of the people" and to lead them in devotion to the country and in obedience to the laws of God, should be the scholar's ideal. Love of country and love of God,-what note could more fittingly have been struck at the dedication of an institution with such sublime possibilities before it and by such a man in such a place. It was not the man or his words, or any one thing, but all, that made the very air seem tense and still with the thought," Here perhaps we are making history; this very moment may become one of the imperishable."
After such tension a reaction must come. The speaker ceased, but before he moved from his place the entire audience, dignitaries and all, was on its feet, and the air burst into a flutter of handkerchiefs, while such a thunder of applause shook the walls as they shall not soon hear again. In a moment the organ added its thunder, there throbbed and beat the measures of the hymn that whether it be called "God save the Queen," or "America;" is mightier than any other to move an Anglo-Saxon heart; and poured forth such a song of joy, of patriotism, and of worship as may be heard but once in a lifetime by those who heard it then. This was for me the supreme moment, the moment that I shall never forget. A few words simply and fitly spoken, a solemn dedication of a new life upon the stepping-stone of its dead self to the noblest service within the scope of human achievement, accompanied by such an outpouring of enthusiasm as no thought could have anticipated—this I had heard and seen, and was content.
The rest of my tale I must tell briefly. There was in the afternoon a state luncheon of which the official delegates partook with each other and with the president, while our Seminole friend, Mr. D. E. Potter, carried me off to the Abbey of which he is father abbot, where he agreeably introduced me to the brethren in the refectory thereof. Then followed the reception to President Cleveland to which the public was invited, and where as I passed him swiftly by,
my pace accelerated by officials appointed for that purpose, I breathed into his ear a statement that seemed to fill him with pleasure as well as astonishment, that I brought him a greeting from Kansas. Then your unofficial representative ushered your official one into the secret precincts of the Hall of the Cliosophic Society, where with strange ceremonies and incantations that may not be written even in Greek letters, he with many others became an honorary member of that mystic and literary brotherhood. After another visit to the Abbey, the abbot and I repaired again to Alexander Hall to hear a glee club concert. Then we parted, and just before train time I slipped in at the rear of the huge dining room of the Casino, and took a last look at our official delegate as he partook of the feast of reason and eloquence that followed the farewell banquet tendered by the University to its departing guests. And as I returned to Trenton, this time having a whole car to myself, I reflected with pleasure that in the entire ceremonial there had not been struck one single inharmonious note; that there had been no slip, no mistake, no failure on the part of any one to rise to the spirit of the occasion, nothing unworthy of the occasion; that as a ceremonial with a definite purpose it had fallen little if at all short of perfection.
One or two questions are likely to suggest themselves touching this celebration. Of what use was all this "fuss and feathers?" Does it mean anything to us, to Kansas University in particular?
The answer to the first question is that such a ceremonial as this would not be in place except in the older universities where it belongs to tradition; but that where it is to be observed at all it should be made as beautiful and as significant as possible. Under it all there lies something that does have interest to us. The ceremonial is of the past; but the spirit of the new unit ed more than once instructors are men,