There are many Hebrew legends which have gathered about that early figure on the dim edge of history, Enoch, the son of Jared,--not the Enoch, son of Cain (after whom the latter named the city that he builded in the land of Nod), but the Enoch of whom the Biblical record is simply that he lived so many years, "walked with God and was not, for God took him." According to one of these legends he was the first great teacher, inventor, and scientist of the race and the first to attempt to pass on, in a systematic way, from generation to generation, the wisdoms of human experience and divine revelation. For, having been forewarned that the earth would be destroyed once by fire and once by water, he erected two pillars (that came to be known as "Enoch's Pillars") on which he caused to be inscribed "all such learning as had been delivered unto or invented by mankind." "Thus," the legend adds, "it was that all knowledge and learning were not lost, for one of these pillars remained after the flood." Here have we the primordial illustration of that subjective mystery of the mind's desire which is ever pushing out beyond the verge of the known, and which is not content until it has tried to tell the next generation what it has learned, and has found expression objectively in such institutions as this and in such systems of education as to-day cover great portions of the earth. There is a subsidiary legend about this primal teacher, inventor of sewing, and scientist (whose first text-book was one of these pillars) that has further pertinency. It is said of this patriarch, who did not die (and who may thus be said to personify the generic ideal teacher, in that his influence persists as if he were living), that he visited heaven once before his final translation, in order that he might be prepared to teach his fellow men upon his return to earth. (This would seem to impart a theological training, such as your new president has had--at any rate, instruction in sacred things.) He was lifted to the abode of the archangels, who, it is said, not only arrange and study the revolutions of the stars, the changes of the moon, and the revolutions of the sun, "but also arrange teachings and instruction and sweet speaking and singing of all kinds of glorious praise." What better or more enchanting picture of an ideal institution for the preparation of teachers, established from the foundation of the earth! A curriculum in which science is interspersed with sweet speaking and singing by archangels! "Bring first," said the Lord, "the books from the store place and give a reed to Enoch and interpret the books to him." And so it was that this first university, with an archangel for its president, instructed its first earth pupil. For thirty days and thirty nights did the archangel instruct intensively (the legend has it, "his lips never ceased speaking") while Enoch wrote down "all the things about heaven and earth, angels and men and all that it is suitable to be