Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 58: January, 1893 Is it not then well for us in the crowd to stop and consider whether we are not losing for a while the direction in which we set out, and are not taking instead some narrow road which leads to one side. The prevailing worship Of the partial ideal Of college success is narrowing and one-sided. The initial purpose of this college was the training and broadening Of character - its great and representative men have been great in so far as they have believed in and lived out this ideal. This is the force and meaning Of tradition, which is a power here, like the fine, clear line Of nobility Of blood in some grand Old family. This fact is recognized by everyone; a writer in the Harvard Monthly says Yale is to America, what Oxford and Cambridge are to England, a place where the tradi tion Of national character is maintained. If we come to worship college successes for themselves we deny Our birthright as Yale men. The great gift Of the education here, and that which we need most as we look towards our work afterwards, is not an ideal Of suc cess, but an ideal of character. 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.