New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-07

. u.p-u.zlRD SYSTEM OF ADVANCED EDUCATION.
See where the haphazard system OF public advanced
education doled out TO great nation by various sect
has led u.s. From one end OF the country to the other
there is not regular provision for advanced
tpstructon in the history Of the United States. Look
the whole number OF SEQ colleges through and you DO
not nd in one OF two any regular PROVISION Ior
Take the planest results as regards social science
Every year the cost Is fearful Nearly lorN s,s' s
Legislatures and nearly forty times forty county anu
local boards dealing with matters relating TO paupersI
crime, lunacy, idocy the care Of the deaf DUMP ana
blind, making provision regarding lhen az Sndo
millions upon millions, and very rarely Win an! i
mental study of the complicated questions lnVOVeu'
Youder is England suffering from errors IN sncSe IT.
spects made centuries Here are our STATES epea
results as regards Political Science. Look at our Ma
honsl Legislature, containing always large number o
them often give theories which the most careful
thinking OF the world and the worlds experience S as
analogy extends beyond the internal affairs OF our
do not speak Of the diplomatic service though the
want of higher knowledge with reference 10
an analogy Of another sort forced upon us
by these times | start again with the premises UNI
ut part in warfare 10y land or sea-to hod
our country In the Pos9h she ongnt 70 Sb are
modern nations. BUT the warfare 10 WIZ, , enc oniv
educated at West Point and Annapolis, Is not tno Sn
warfare between modern States The greatest ouern
warfare Is rapidly becoming an lndust I'm ,he most
Every great nation is recognizing THIS but tie IT,
old system OF waging by tariffs ana o0nntes is
yielding to the system OF developing M nin Of ibe
skill technical education. That Is the e'niuk VI o
great xnositions OF industry the last twenty-five
years That is the meaning of all tne great INSTRUCTIONS
which modern states are providing for higher education
in the sciences bearing upon Tue Naiious 1910
education enable nations TO hold Their own among
Standardization IN civil mining and mechanl,
oil engineernG-in the application OF the natural ana
physical sciences 10 agriculture ana anuIacture-lh
the OF design applied to the making or various
fabrics. This warfare Is as real as the other Inc army
engaged IN Is larger than tue oher IL u on our sie
100000 and the nation which leaves educatlOn
OF BY appeals Will find that 1t has
neglected its highest duties anu abdicated some OF us
MODEST functions.
THE HALF-EDUCATED POLITICIANS THE MOST COR
Again argue that not only does true regard for the
material prosperity OF the nation demand more reg
aar and thorough public provision for advanced educa
ton but that highest political interests demand IT,
From all sides Outcres against the debasement OF
American politics. and especially against gross mate
RAJ corruption No doubt great part Of these cries are
stimulated by scandalhuuters and sensauon-nongers
still enough remaIns TO give much food for serious
thought. Now 1 assert that as rule our public men
who have received an advanced education nave not
Welded to gross corruption. Understand the assertion.
IL is not that who not had the advantage OF
ences-far from II; some of the nobies opponents OF
corruption have had have been men debarred Dy
early poverty from thorough education. But what
assert is simply this: Go among the men VINO us
grace country by gross corruption-whtther IN
city, State NatioPal councils, aud you mud the
great majority Of them OF the class that mas
received lust education enough enter into the sruS
gle for place pelf, aud not enough TO appreciate
higher considerations Inc pIennina[s ,d i
IN science literature, or history not ohy sniPes tIo
faculties, gives hun eXempaTs and ideals. His
sdcTstons 70 which man of lower education Is very
stranger. He lifted mp to plane from when
deserves The letting down in character OF our
National and state councils has VIGOROUSLY increased
Just the pTcdumndUce OF men OF all advanced educa
ton IN those councils has decreased President bar
Der of men of advanced education in orr public stations
-lecade by decade-marks no less the rIse-decade by
decade-of material corruption. This not mere con-
comancy there Is relation here of cause aud effect
NATIONAL POLICY ALREADY FORMED OF PUBLIC
PROVISION FOR EDUCATION.
And now what should practical policy be in carry
Ing out the general principles have advocated Let
If cannot get out OF the realm Of theory into
the realm of practice. Aud rstas to practical dealings
with the question in the States. Now there Is
one very fortunate the whole matter and that
a. public provisions for education in the new
States there is already national and state policy
based Oh the right prnclpe and tending TO the right
hhCrahty continuity; still it has always been IN one
dir CiOu, aud that is thnk the right direction In
accordance with tins policy the congress OF he unIeu
States gave the States first grant OF land 10
sttnctop secondly Congress gave the states grant to
serve nucleus fund for university INSTRUCTION;
thirdly Congress has gwen to the new states as wei az
the old grant 10 serve nucleus fund for instruc
ton especially sciences bearing on the great indus
tries. TuIS national aud state policy thus II harmony.
has begun to be supplemented by an individual policy
Already individuals are beginning 10 aggregate gifts
aOout thus provI0ed by the nation and the
STATE. Here, them is policy distinct ana consistent
So tar as II carried has worked well Tne
Oily difficulty II has been carried out too slowly
tmldy; what advocate is that 1t Oe carried our
foundations II has lad in the States thouehttniy
aud literally, in view of the vast populations hat are TO
reside ~ States aud IN view of the absolute ne
cessty Of having strong centers OF enlightenment III
those vast populations.
Next, a. To state policy would have II 60 IN the
same direction heretofore. but with hoerality and
steadue,s showing far more foresight. wouid have
each Of states build up higher upon the founda-
tons laid by national 'grtHts-thc.r pa bic institutions
for advanced instruction distinguish cd from private
seetaran institutions. would have each STATE build
up the institution under its control rather than the
20 under the control OF conferences and doceses ana
sVnOGs ana councils and COnsstOres ana presby
and denOmlnatlOua associations of various sects. |
would have Michigan develop completely her
ceeI normal school al 1psautl ana htr agricultural
cole at Lansing and ada department Of technology
and mining school TO her noble university at Ann |
Arbor; would nave Illinois strengthen her admirable
industrial university Champaign aud Arkansas hers
at LAFAYETTE; would have Missouri strengthen her
Siate university al COumD'a ana her INNING school |
al ROlO ana Iowa strengthen her State cole &c Aes.
and Minnesota her STATE university al -! Autnony, aud
CaiCfuld 70 Ou as SIZE recently has done SO literally,
and strengthen Der university at Berkeley, and Ken
tucky hers at Ashland and with the TINS
p4y when may he sroaned over or sighed al by those
whose whole system of public action consists, not IN
promoting practicable plan, but grOanug over and
SvouhS AT eNeIyth9g supposed to couuavene ultra
policy.
TIE ARGUMENT SUMMED UP.
Let me SUN mp the whole based on actual facts
presented in public reports which ask YOU as tbono,,
fu ponder. Remember then that In not one Of
States outside the original thirteen has there vet
been established by private enterprise or sectarian
zeal a college with faculty approaching
completeness 20 numbers. or with general eanlp-
which reaches tnediocritv In the whole nuEber
OF such Sectara institutions there is not complete
faculty, not library laboratory. observatory or
illustrative collection worthy Of even the third rank
even judging by our American standard TINS the
outcome Of nearly century Of effort under the prD-
ope OF scattering for education
Seofdance with the demands OF sectarianisn rather
tau concentrating them in accordance tue plans
T statesmausnip. 50 much for the great new States
VIM ,ns,n W.; ooeI states What would lie policy
Ieuered by single theory doctrine no matter how