The two men eyed each other--one with that broad-gage examination which sees even universities as futile in the endless shift of things; the other with that faith in the balance for right which makes even great personal forces, such as financial magnates, serve an idealistic end.
"It's not a very long story I have to tell you, Mr.Cowperwood," said the doctor.

"Our astronomical work is handicapped just now by the simple fact that we have no lens at all, no telescope worthy of the name.

I should like to see the University do original work in this field, and do it in a great way.

The only way to do it, in my judgment, is to do it better than any one else can.

Don't you agree with me ?" He showed a row of shining white teeth.
Cowperwood smiled urbanely.
"Will a forty-thousand-dollar lens be a better lens than any other lens ?" he inquired.
"Made by Appleman Brothers, of Dorchester, it will," replied the college president.