From Sever to Emerson to New Fogg eastward the course of the Old Testament takes its way. Not even the demands of Divisional examinations, which may now be taken at almost any reason of the year, and consequently affect smaller groups of candidates, can account for the immense audiences which gather to hear Professor Lake's lectures on the Bible, Professor Kittredge on Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however true, alone and unaided hold those audiences and make them return to quench again their thirst.

That element which packs lecture Lalls to the doors and which changes the function of aisles from that of pathways to that of seating space is what has been called, for want of a better term, the ability for great teaching. Where it is jacking one has courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality; and no accumulation of degrees transform a great scholar to a great teacher.

Harvard has the men named above, and she has others, whose appeal is broad but no less intense. With their aid and with the experiments which she is making along educational lines she is as well equipped to cope with future problems and to lead future generations as she has proved herself to have been during the past three hundred years. Undergraduates of today may differ in many respects from those of yesterday but they have yet to demonstrate immunity to that intellectual zeal which is under the leadership of such teaching as the University affords, so fortunately contagious.