The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-20
OUR STATE UNIVERSITY.

AS the fall season approaches the
land Is filled with the hustle Of prep
aratiOn of our thousands of sons and
daughters who are attending the col
leges and seminaries of Wisconsin and
other states. Besides these, there are
many who are leaving home for the
first time, to try college life, with its
ups and downs, or the more quiet
and fashionable life of seminary.
To these comes the great question,
"Where shall | go?" The success or
failure of your life perhaps depends
upon this choice. In the newspapers
at this season of the year, under the
head Educational" you find a long
list of various institutions of learning,
wherein each sets forth its peculiar
advantages as being superior to others,
and invites you to send for cata-
lOgue. 1t you depend OH catalogues
to make your choice, it is very prob
able that you will be deceived: for the
average catalogue is IL very deceitful
book, and gives no definite idea of
what the place is. AS an example,
one of the colleges in Illinois issued
catalogue few years ago, larger than
that of any other college in the United
States, representing membership of
something like a thousand students,
and corresponding corps of instruct
Ors. The greater part of the students
and instructors were members of pro-
fessiOnal schools located in another
city. but under the same management.
The college proper contained about
two hundred students. Private and
sectarian schools are apt to put their
best foot forward in their catalogues.
While some of the best colleges in the
East are sectarian. it is not true of the
West. Michigan has shown us by her
University at Ann Arbor that the
true method of education is the State
system. The browning glcry of the
school system of any state should be
her University. From the District
Schools of the country to the High
Schools of the cities. there should be
an organized effort to induce such as
desire a college education to prepare
themselves for the University of their
os0n state. Wisconsin has followed
the example of Michigan, and our
State University is far ahead of any
other college in the State, and it is
safe to say, next to Ann Arbor, the
best in the Northwest. In the first
place 1t has larger income. This in
come, secured to it by the United
States land grant, has built Science
Hall, the largest building devoted to
scientific purposes in the colleges of
his country; also the Assembly Hall
and Library buildings, which are con-
sidered the best, next to one of the
Eastern colleges, in the United States
Above all it has secured the services
IF men of great learning for its Fac
atty. among whom the names of Bas-
,Om, Allen, Freeman, and Berge, are
familiar to most scholars in this coun-
Try. and that of Watson, Prof. of As
is world wide. Smaller col
eges depending on the charity of indi-
or of the religious denomina-
ions they represent, have no means to
support such men, hence their in
Itructors are, as a rule, men of inferior
lttainments. Again. they are obliged
o draw on the students for support,
renee you pay tuition for adyanta- ,
res and instruction much inferior to
hat of the State University, where
uitiOn is free. 1t is cheaper in other
aspects also The State does not ex- (