and perfect a plan of medical instruction founded upon an adequate general training, which will be adopted as a national system. Such a unification of our first diverse ideals is bound to come in the near future, and it would be a great triumph and a great service for this school to lead the way in this as it has in other vital questions pertaining to medical education. THE COMING CITIZENSHIP COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS PROFESSOR JEREMIAH WHIPPLE JENKS, LL.D. T [DELIVERED IN THE PAVILION, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 10 A.M.] HE exercises of the morning are held prima rily for the young men and young women who to-day first formally commence their tasks as members of the commonwealth. I am to speak in behalf of our loved Alma Mater, the great State University that holds it her prime duty to fit her sons and her daughters for their responsibilities as citizens. I have therefore thought it fitting to choose as the topic of the hour The Coming Citizenship. These days of political turmoil and strife are not only interesting, exciting. They are portentous or hopeful with issues that are vital. As citizens we should, if possible, avoid mistakes. If we would form sound judgments, we must look closely into fundamental principles of society and of life, for politics is an outgrowth of deeper causes. To look ahead and judge the coming citizenship, we must note the signs of the times in various fields. I am not speaking only, or particularly, of the present political campaign. It would not be fitting on this auspicious day, when so many of you are to enter the path of your life's activity, to attempt to stir a momentary enthusiasm for any temporary candidate or any temporary cause. Rather is it fitting to point out the signs by which we may judge the direction in which our State is moving, and indicate the principles by which we may for a longer time wisely guide our acts as citizens, for an obligation that we must not ignore rests upon each of us to do his part as a member of the community. Our country as a political body, the state, is simply all of us-the citizens. Our government is merely our grand committee to formulate and do our bidding in political matters in accordance with the rules laid down for guidance by ourselves and our fathers. And we as citizens are still men and women with our various interests, our hopes, our fears, our desires, our purposes. But with all this variety each man's nature is one. Each man's life is a unit. Here and there, perchance, may be found a double character, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; but such a being is abnormal, a fit subject for the alienist. He is not a man. The character of man is the same, and ought to be the same, in all his various activities,-economic, social, religious, political. If we find, then, the trend of men's views in religion, in morals, in education, in business, we may be sure that we can judge the drift of their political thinking; and we shall not be misled either by any chance outburst of the day's enthusiasm, or by any halting fear of a forward movement. What are some of these signs of the times? Some two years ago a group of university seniors asked me to meet them for a Sunday evening talk. The subject was to be of my choosing. Acting on the example of a fellow economist in another university, this suggestion was made as a basis for our talk: Each person present was to assume that he believed in the traditional, old-fashioned doctrine of an immediate |