Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know, It makes much difference what they get. They will be prone to demand something they can immediately use; the tendency is strong to give it to them: I submit that the shepherds should not first feed the flock with these. I argue for the outlines of what used to go as a liberal education not necessarily in the sense that young folks should waste precious years in efforts, unsuccessful for some reason I cannot understand, to master ancient tongues; but I speak for an introduction into the thoughts and deeds of men who have lived before them, in other countries than their own, with other strives and other need. This I maintain, not in the interest of that general cultural background which is so often a cloak for the superior person, the prig. the snob and the pedant. But I submit to you that in some such way alone can we meet and master the high-power salesman of political patent medicines.