The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1882-01-29
Letter From A Mississippi Woman.


EDITORS CLARION: Believing that some
Of tho opposition to State Female College
arises .iiga - impression that such an
institution would ipure existin Hmale
colleges, have collected the folbwNs facts
which apply very readily to the case lu
hand. h9
In an article in the Courier-Joufnal the
officers representing seven Kentucky Cob
eges deprecate the course Of the State in
adding to the A, and NJ. College sat licking
ton, KY, such departments Of languages
aud mathematics as make it rival OF the
older colleges of Kentucky, in the sphere Of
collegiate training. To this article there
is a reply by James r. Patterson, PHI. d.,
President of the State College
President Patterson's reply suggests,
among Others, the following points -. That
the other colleges Of Kentucky do not meet
the demands of those seeking the highest
education, and cannot, with tile funds at
the disposal of any one of them, compete
with such an institution as Yale, aud that
the enlargement OF the AGRICULTURAL aud
Mechanical College was needed 10 remedy
this defect, as we'll as to provide normal In
struction for The teachers of Kentucky. 2.
That the State College does not interfere
with the patronage of the UNCONVENTIONAL
colleges, because it draws its aDatr0nage
from a different class Of the community. 3.
That the State College will stimulate the
other colleges to renewed exertipn and to
continued improvement, rather than Grip
Pile and destroy them, He THINKS The State
College will serve specially to educate the
poor who Che SAYS cannot get an edanation
at the other colleges because of expenses
The Louisville Christian 0bsetver, COM
menting ON the above, says
The fact is, that as the SPINNING Jenny.
by cheapening cloth, created demand Cor
il; as the railroads, by making farming and
manufactures more profitable, have created
demand for horses; US the newspapers
have greatly promoted the growth Of the
country and of popular intelligence, aud
have thus created a new demand Tor news
papers, so every college creates a thirst for
education, and this in turn increases the
prosperity of all.
This is illustrated by such facts A. the
following; |. Under the shadow lol every
college in the United States thers is i de-
mand for liberal education that exists no.
where else. While the farmer at a distance
rarely thinks of educating his sou begond
the limits of the common school course. the
farmer of the college neighborhood is not
content till his son has the best education
possible. A hundred aud twenty .RhssS of
the students of the State College - from
Lexington and its vicinity. Who 6si.eves
that one-half or one-third OF these students
would have been sent TO am college
at a distancsg , The MULTIPLICATION Of
colleges in our land has multiplied Students
in marvellous ratio. The time was hum
bred and twenty yeas ago, when there we're
but four or five colleges in the Land, with
llt may bel two or three hundred stndeats.
There are now about three hundred and six
ty colleges and sixty thousand sfudents.
Are the original four or five Harvard. Yale.
Columbia, Princeton, Washington and Lee
etc, ANY poorer in students because hres
hundred and 6fTy risals have kprliag up.
Nay, they haze perhaps ten times a. many
students as when they had 40 rivals. While
population has increased sixteen fild, the
colleges have increased the demand for edu-
cation and the number Of college studeuts
nearly ahnndred and sixty fold. We there
fore apprehend that the State college and
every new college will increase the demand
for education in Kentucky. t. an extent far
greater than the number Of slnk..sss il NAV
withdraw from any existing insliatiea.