up collegiate as well as professional education as the acquisition of the capacity to do work of a specific character. "Knowledge can come only as the result of experience. What is learned in any other way seldom has such reality as to make it an actual part of our lives."
A doctor cannot afford to depend too freely on experience, valuable though it may be, because the high prices it asks are paid by his patients. But so far as professional training goes, Dr. Goodnow stood on firm ground. All it undertakes to do is to enable students to work along chosen lines—to turn them into doctors, lawyers, priests, mining engineers, analytical chemists, expert accountants. They may or may not be educated men in the liberal sense of the word. They may or may not understand allusions which are current in the conversation of educated people. Such conversation is far from encyclo-
