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Excerpt from The University as a Business Institution in New Haven: A Paper Read Before the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven, February 14th, 1900
I suppose it is not assumption on my part to say that I represent the business side of the University. I have charge of it, so far as it is a business concern in the midst of us. And I think I know the town. I am of the town originally rather than of the University. I was not born in university, but in town, circles. My associations of boyhood, youth and business manhood have been town associations, as well as university associations. I have kept office in the midst of you, and bargained and maneuvered and worked in the midst of the business men of the town. I think I understand town ideals and town ambitions. Circumstances have also, in the last twenty years, shown me a good deal of the Uni versity, -of the young University. I have been thrown into intimate relations with men who are as totally of the University in their origins and associa tions as I am of the town. I think I know, too, how the two classes look at one another, or rather how they used to look at one another. For after all thedifference is largely a mere tradition. There was a time when a college man was distinguished from a business man by the way he did things. He did not buy his daily food in the same way as a town man. Nor was it sold to him in the same way that it was to a town man. There was a difference recognized by both sides, and that had a foundation on both sides, which gave rise to the present tradition of difference. I think all of you who are as -old as I am can remember when the ideas of business and of a college education were entirely dissociated. There was a time when that ignorant remark of Horace Greeley's.
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