And now let us turn to the more pleasant task of being constructive. For although college cannot teach a man many facts that he will remember; cannot prepare all men for their particular businesses or destinies in the world at large--be it rugs or wastebaskets, literature or religion; cannot teach men the actual means--the details of their lives' works; cannot offer a man tools; (in doing so it would no longer be a college, a unity;--but would become a series of unrelated and highly specialized schools,--a university); nevertheless college can give a man the methods by which he may employ the means, the laws by which he may use the tools; it can teach him methods of thinking, laws of reason, processes of gathering and analyzing and arranging, and giving solution to the facts of his future problems; his visions it can stimulate. Experience teaches men the rule of thumb, but culture should teach men the generalizations and truths of mind. A smattering of Biology is useless; knowledge of the scientific method is invaluable. And so with the other departments:--methods are the things which all men naturally desire to know. They are what men live by. Give me a universal law--O bearer of lux of veritas (light and truth!)--and I will spend the rest of my days repaying you with more than half of my many kingdoms. This you could give--and yet still extra-curriculum is where the real lux and the real veritas linger. "Give me wherewith to stand and I will move the world." So we cry unto you; but as a University you will not hear--you nod wisely, and build your requirements for the average man who does not exist, and think not at all of creating that place on which the genius, which is each one of us who come to Yale,--may stand. --Maxwell Jo. Foster in the Yale Literary Magazine.