Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-23
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rnR woRK ~ MsCuER EDUCATI0S.
In 4 recent article, contributed to the
Chyistian Advocate. Professor Van Scoy,
Of Willamette University. takes the
Ground that tnere is but limited room
for the buildina Of colleges, and that II
n far bvetR TO concentrate efforts o.
chic character on the limited number
han v spesad them indefinitely over .
apsss nambae. In considering TINS
msssse u psetinsntly asks: II william
- University, with nearly forty ysars
a kiseesy, With . long list OF alulani'
With IN able aud popular line Of instruc-
tori from its incipisncy, with large
and continued patronage throughout a
. vide sxtsnt Of territory, Is able, as Its
veev best, e produce college with only
ssventesn stndsnts, how long will It be
before the sams territory can support
two universities and two colleges?
M. Van Sooy believes shat II Moth
odism in all this northwest were to con-
ceutrsts their influences and means on
ons college, they will not produce col
lses Of q hundred students in ten years
effort. Thsy will make rapid progress it
they produce ono Of seventy-five stu
dsnta.
"There are sufficiently broad limits In
The name Academy TO do the work OF ed
ueasion In 0or church here outside OF
one College, for the next twenty years.
Why II Il that tho older the States be-
come, tho fewer are the colleges! Be-
cause the people viii not learn to cease
founding thsss schools in the early pop
uiation Of State, until they are forced
70 know by years Of experience, through
most difficult struggles and waste OF
time and money, that they cannot sur
vive. Many years ago the Methodist
Church rot In operation six colleges in
Indiana. They have nearly all failed but
ons, and through the local struggies OF
shsss several schools, Indiana Asbury
University has Lost for many years the
eupport, which should have been con
esntsatsd upon it, and would have made
Il the school years ago. which it is just
now becoming through tho failure Of the
other schools, and by this united effort
The seven colleges ia Illinois hnve be
gun 70 die of, and In few years one OF
two will rise above the ruins, to be the
peids Of the church and proper and
grand representation Of the college
work.
''Iowa II doing the most sensible
ching. Instead Of waiting for the survi
vai Of the iittest after years Of struggles
and divisions, II has concluded to unite
the forces. Oregon and Washington are
yet In tho building period Of this kind OF
history, which will repeat itself.
Situated in tho midst Of four strong
Conferences Of more than 100000
church members, with united and snthu-
siastio support, and with about $l5OOOO
endowment, President Martin, Of India
M Asbury University, one Of the very
ablest educators in this country, says. in
arsesnt appeal for help. that that school
must have II once 100000 more to sus-
tain il College; but in Oregon and
Waahington. the church. having no Col
lege endowed with cent, Is going on to
bald more. drawing away influence and
support from those already in opera
tiou."
What tho learned gentleman says Of
church schools ID equally applicable To
secular institutions. Tho tendency is
excessive In all new regions to multiply
colleges. Some town in almost every
county u certain to be a metropolis, and
some town In every county is eager to
become Z seat Of learning. What are
called colleges and universities are looa-
Ted hare, There and everywhere, some
endowed with ons, two or three thousand
dollars, and some without a dollar. They
invariably have short and painful lives,
and speedy deaths. just at this time
quite \ number Of ineipient colleges are
trying 10 bad into existence in Washing
tsn Territory, while the academies, sem
inasiss and high and classical schools Of
the past are sorrowful number to con-
template. Some Of these efforts have
bssn made In the most outlandish plac-
- Imaginable. on islands, in the country,
end whore thsss was not the semblance
Of . town. How much better would it bs
vsrs thsir efforts united upon single
inslitntisn, Of q the most upon two-one
sast and ona wtst Of the Cascade Noun
sainsf One might be 20 sustained and
Assnethsnsd - 70 become ere many
ysass credit TO the whole people. and
- IN svsry respect what It's name inn
pliss; but With dozen pretended collie
- h ths Territory al must suffer and
teghape Ill ignobly fail.