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Show Need of the Day. In the attitude toward human life there abide the two contrasted types. One Is the voice cr)lng In the wilderness, wilder-ness, the man clad In skins, ascetic teetotaler, tee-totaler, radlcnl, reformer, agitator, and of him thev say he hnth a devil, he is a crank His mission Is to awake with a ringing ; Repent the dormant public mind nnd stir the publlo conscience, but In him Is no safe uplifting and upbuilding up-building power, says the Atlantic. His errand Is fulfilled In a day, and after him thero cometh one whose shoe latchet he ! unworthy to loose the mm among men, the Man-Son, living the normal life of men, accepting the standing order, paying tribute unto Cacsnr, touching nlbows with men of the world, respecting tho conventions of society, healing and helping nt n from the common standing-ground of human life. The call which comes to the university universi-ty from the need of the day Is a call for trained men, not extraordinary specimens speci-mens of man. but normal men. not eccentricities ec-centricities but gentlemen, not stubborn stub-born tnrles or furious radicals, hut men of society andgood sense, men of good health and sanity, men trained In tho mhool of hlstoricnl-mlndedness. |