for the service of humanity? Men will play the game according to the rules
of the game. If humanity changes the rules, its strong men will still let
out their energies, because they can not help it, and they will like
themselves all the better for being on the side of their fellow-men. There
is no pleasure in being isolated, eyed with resentment, and conscious of
hardness. If ten per cent net means long hours, low wages, and repression,
and if six per cent would mean good will and contentment, it might pay the
leaders of industry to take less in dividends and take it out in the
higher satisfactions.

For men of great ability this is the chance for enduring fame. Who will
remember the men that did nothing but amass wealth? Who of our presidents
are remembered and loved? Those who suffered with and for the people.

The leadership of service validates its rightness by its intellectual
results. Predatory and parasitic classes become intellectually sterile and
ignorant of real life. A man who wants to serve men, must get close to
them. If we carry a load uphill, we have to choose our footing, and will
perforce become intimately acquainted with the law of gravitation. Nothing
develops the intellect like heading a just cause and fighting for it.

Here, then, we have another social principle of Jesus. The ambition of the
strong must be yoked to the service of society. Power and honor must be
earned by distinguished and costly service. Progress along this direction
marks the progress of the Kingdom of God. Extortionate and domineering
leadership must be superseded where the Kingdom of God moves forward.

V

Does the life of our colleges and universities square with this principle?
College men and women crave honor from their fellows, or their
fraternities crave it for them vicariously. How do the "big men" in
college win it? Do they win it by raising the standards of intellectual
work for all? By making fun clean and honorable through the power of a
clean public opinion? By creating a college spirit which will put manhood
into every generation of Freshmen that plunges into it? Or do they win
honor by organizing parties, by intoxicating themselves and others with
frothy "social" successes, by acting for the gallery to see and applaud,
and by wasting the dynamics of youth on shooting rockets that look like
stars and come down like sticks? Such men are essentially selfish; even
their service is self-seeking and deserves no h