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"The Vocation of the Scholar."

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At the first meeting of the Graduate Club last night in Phillips Brooks House. Professor William James lectured on "The Vocation of the Scholar."

The two most obvious uses, he said, which higher education affords man, are solace during idle hours and a keener perception of opportunities in business.

The community, however, may not be the better for learning, for, though brutal crimes may be less frequent, knowledge has taught man many ways of petty meanness. Educated men, though infrequently possessing those personal qualities which enable them to exert immediate control over the wills of others, are able by their dispassionate criticism to rule in calmer moments. To bring things back to their proper perspective is the art of the learned.

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