The Cap and Gown

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE MAIN POINTS
THE STRANGE WAYS OF GOD
THE SOCIAL MESSAGE OF THE MODERN PULPIT
THE YOUNG MAN’S AFFAIRS
FAITH AND HEALTH
THE GOSPEL OF GOOD HEALTH
BY CHARLES REYNOLDS BROWN
THE PILGRIM PRESS NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyright, 1910 By Luther H. Cary
The larger part of the material in this book was originally used in a number of addresses given in various colleges and universities reaching from Yale and Cornell in the East to Stanford and the University of California in the West. It is here offered to a wider circle in the hope that these chapters may prove suggestive to college students and to those who are interested in having them make the best use of the bewildering array of opportunities awaiting them on the modern campus.
It was one of the shrewdest and kindliest observers of student life, himself a long-time resident of Cambridge and a genial friend of Harvard men, who said: “It is a never-failing delight to behold every autumn the hundreds of newcomers who then throng our streets, boys with smooth, unworn faces, full of the zest of their own being, taking the whole world as having been made for them, as indeed it was. Their visible self-confidence is well founded and has the facts on its side. The future is theirs to command, not ours; it belongs to them even more than they think it does, and this is undoubtedly saying a good deal.”