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The Hobart Herald *75 is Hobart’s problem ? It is the transformation of the ancient small college with a small faculty and equipment, into the modern small college with a larger faculty, a larger library and more laboratories. Others have solved it and we h a v e every belief that we can do the same. The solution has already begun. ” The president then told of the new buildings, the new laboratories and what he characterized as “ th e trump c a rd ” —a perfectly equipped chemical laboratory for which credit should go to Dr. H erbert L. Moody. H e then told of the needs of th e college. G y m n a s i u m D e m a n d e d In speaking of the proposed gym . he said: “ I preach gymnasium in and out o f season, and I thoroughly hope that its corner stone may be laid as a part of the coming commencement ceremonies.” There w ere three reasons fo r the need of these things he said. First, young men of today demand instruction along these lines; second, competitors offer these things and men go there; third, they are needed in order to complete and realize the small college idea and ideal, which is distinct from the university idea. The university' idea is specialization; the small college idea and ideal, set off against that o f the university and of co-ordinate importance, is humanization. Send men forth human beings an d with a knowledge of human beings to do human work, with an interest in a ll that man has developed, brought forth and obtained. A n interest in his art, his philosophy, his religion, his struggle for political freedom and right, his success in the world of commerce and industry. And the college age between 17 and 21, is the time when this spirit o f humanization can be awakened. The time to take men and lead them, and then, when they have obtained this, to give them the knowledge to take scientific methods and apply it.
