uperincumbent fabric.

"The college should be marked by a completeness. Rejecting the
fragmentary and the unfinished, the well constituted mind ever craves
this. Modern thought, especially, is passing from an excessive
nominalism to a more realistic habit; by many a broad induction, from
mere details to a rounded whole: And nowhere more persistently than in
relation to institutions. The college should be complete as to its
objective scheme. There may be onesidedness here. There may be, for
example, an excessive or ill-directed pressing of utilities, as in the
speculations of Mr. Herbert Spencer; or there may be an undue
exaltation of what he calls 'the decorative element.' The theoretic
maybe too exclusively pursued; or there may be a practicalness which
has too little of theory, like a cone required to stand firm on its
apex. There should be completeness, also, as touching the subjective
aim. It should embrace, in a word, the whole man, and that not in his
Edenic aspects alone, but as a fallen being. You may not overlook even
the physical; the casket not merely, holding all the mental and moral
treasures--the frame-work rather, to which by subtile ties the
invisible machinery is linked, and which upholds it as it works. The
world has yet to learn fully how dependent is the inner upon the outer
man, and how greatly the highest achievements of scholarship are
facilitated by proper hygienic conditions. As you pass to the
intellectual, it matters little what classification you adopt, whether
with the author of the '_Novum Organum_,' in his 'Advancement of
Learning,' you resolve all the powers into those of memory,
imagination, and reason, or whether the minuter divisions of a more
recent philosophy are preferred; only be sure that not a single
faculty is overlooked or disparaged. Be it presentative, conservative,
reproductive, representative, elaborative, regulative, or whatever the
fine Hamiltonian analysis may suggest, give it its proper place and
its proper scope.

"The college should be distinctly and eminently Christian. Not in the
narrow, sectarian sense--that be far from us--but in the broadest
evangelical view. Our course of thought culminates here; and here does
all else that has been affirmed find its proper centre and unity.
Christianity is the great unity. In it, as was intimated at the
outset, are all the chief elements of organic influence. It is itself
the very acme of completeness, and it tends to all sym