Excerpt from Memorials of Bucknell University, 1846 1896, Lewisburg, Pa Bucknell University have been distinguished for hard Work. When a man puts his conscience into his work, especially when he regards life as a Divine vocation, he will not do his work with eye service as a pleaser of men, but with singleness of heart, as unto God. Another capital reason for this spirit of work is, that most of our students are from families of moderate means. Their future is not made for them; they must make it for themselves. Such men are the coming leaders of the world. To induce such men to enter its classes, our oldest American university expends annually to Since it has adopted that policy its graduates are again taking the lead in every vocation. Our attendance is composed almost wholly of such men. Consequently the faithful, hard working student at Bucknell is not regarded as an oddity, as is the case in some colleges, but work here has always been regarded as honorable and the worker has not been despised. This is as true to-day of Bucknell as it has ever been. An examination of the records shows that the percentage of hard-working students is as great as at any time in the history of the institution. The introduction of electives has also quickened the mental life of the institution, and broadens greatly the student's conception of the field of knowledge. I dwell thus upon the character of the students who come here, and the Spirit which prevails because of their supreme importance as educational factors. The students educate and form one another. The other chief element in the life of the school is the men who teach. Education is not the acquisition of knowledge. Teaching is not the professor's chief function. He ought to be an educator, and education is dynamical. The professor educates by what he is; by what he is as a student and scholar, still more by what he is as a man. His mental force, his power of will, his self-command, his social tact, above all his warm sym pathy, are much more potential in education, and much more valuable than learning and intellectual acumen. It is in the character of the professors that the Christian school should be pre-eminent. It is a mooted question what part of the curriculum should be given to religious instruction. What place shall the Bible have? Many think that if there could be daily recitations in the Bible, in all the classes, that the school would be pre-eminently Christian. Ido not disparage Bible-study in the college; on the contrary, I favor it. Yet you might have the Bible given as promi nent a place as the most ardent advocate of such teaching would ask, and the school be atheistic. The only place in the Christian school that the Christian religion can have, so that Christ will be first and last and all, is in 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.