The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-12-03


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Perhaps no Investment ever made
las borne better interest than that
made BY the young minister who lefs
his library and hat his estate. being
ESQ.," to found . college in ehe
infant colony Of Massachusetts bay.
Since money always gathers money"
Il i nothing wonderful thar thai
slender endowment has multiplied .
thousand-fold; that the modest colIec-
ton Of books has become library d
which no university need 20 b
ashamed; that goodly array Of noble
buildings now gives local habltatioz
70 what in the beginning was little
more than = name Ii was 20 be ex-
pected that the little band Of nine
young men who first presented them
selves for maticulation in Harvard
College should. after TWO hundred and
fifty years, have become many thou
sands. and that the long roll Of grad
yates should include many whose
names adorn their country's history
All this increase and gain doubtless
entered. in some sort. into the calcula-
tions OF the founder. But who counts
up all this has yet another item to add
10 the list: the wonderful spread and
all-pervading power Of that idea Of .
liberal education. which. Of all that
Harvard College has had to give 70
America il unqucstionably the most
important and has yielded the most
abundant profit
The idea itself was but mcager one
rs to its means. but as TO its ends and
purposes il was most ample The
standard Of liberal education adopted
BY Harvard in the beginning was the
standard which prevailed in England
mt tina: time. and was but . narrow
one. But the underlying purpose
that Of giving TO men 4 broad founia-
| ton of intellectual culture previous
l and preparatory TO the more special
was capable Of indefinite expansion
| and has never needed 10 be changed
with all the change and additions
| which have befailen the original
standard Of the means by which such
|! an education was 10 be secured
| II is the breadth Of this idea and il
| capacity for expansion which has
| multiplied the original college n Cam
bridge. not only BY score or 80 Of
l first-rate colleges and universities. but
hy an almost countless number ol
1 minor colleges. which. notwithstand'
| ing the paucity Of their endowment
have by the Illuminating power Of thi'
idea. become centers OF light and cult
| urc all up and down our land From
them the country draws. not special
lists. not men Of profound learning
not men Of elegant culture. but tina
vast army Of well-taught people whs
| are the strength OF our Govern
menf and our institutions II
is from these minor colleges. and tn,
preparatory and high schools renderes
necessary by them that come tn
thoughtful readers Of books. the intel
ligent auditors Of Sunday sermons tn
great army Of writers for the loca
press. the better class Of men upon on
jur;es. who form the safeguard Of on
nation. Ii is from these that We &c
the large majority Of that immeasurs
BILE multitude Of teachers which on
system Of public schools requires
Is owing to this widespread geners
culture. not Of . high standard. bu
well grounded. that we have found
possible to absorb without danger th
vast hcries Of immigrants that hav,
crowded to our shores
1t Is to be hoped that this idea is no
now to be lost ina that demand for spe
ciaI training which the new departur
in education has created Within
generation the field Of knowledge ha
widened immensely, and the tendenc
Of this greater breadth. with the op
ton Of choice il necessitates. Is to limi
rather than expand the culture Of III
individual Specialists We must have
especially among the professors in on
colleges. and among the seekers afte
scientific truth; but il Is still generz
and all-around culture that Is needle
BY the rank and file o. men, - that b
which they can most widely sui
serve the general good ET0nk LSsiis'
Illustrated N<:rypgpcr-