San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-31

The University and How it is to be sus-
tanned.
The T exas university with its vast
endowment, able faculty and thorough
curriculum should be made to take rank
with Harvard or Yale college. In an
other decade there may be three mil
lions of Of population in Texas. That
there should be in that time thousand
students in the university may be ex-
pected.
The university at Waco is seeking an
endowment of $500, 900, and is eloquently
appealing TO the 10000 BapIists of
Texas in this behalf. The MethOdists
have q flOurishing university at George
town. All denominational universities
and young colleges and the highest
scholars in the numerous Texas high
schools should be looking to the Texas
university TO finish their collegiate
course In this way our state univer-
sity may in time be equal TO the best
universities of Europe. In this top
most OF Institutions oflearning, students
might be nationalized and cosmOpOlized
in mind, neart and character. Here the
might be irsensibly smOothed off.
meeting on the highest of common
platforms, truth, honor, magnaDimity,
scholarship, mental development, and
disinterested piety towards God, might
here most naturally be mutually recog
niZed, respected and stimulated to on
ward growth and expansion.
The present scheme to metanorphOse
common schools into miniature colleges
preparatory, not 10 business life, but to
the university, with the ridiculous plight
into which it has now thrown
the common schools, would be-
come dream Of the past. And
the sooner il becomes such a
dream, the better for all concerned. The
very best teachers for beginners, have
been found both among men and women
to be Of moderate education, but
thorough as far as they went. Many can
call TO mind teachers of this order in
their own early school days. 10 require
a college education to teach the rudi-
ments, or primary studies, is simply
preposterOus. Men of this rank should
not be required to teach the very begin
ming Of learning; especially since there
are so many needing this employment of
suitable, but moderate attachments.
u tthCu TIC NcIiCst utklhutlS thhOo
the whole time they are learning. They
don't learn much by themselves. Men
of vast learning have wider fields for
their erudition, or for its results in fit
ting them for more rugged and higher
work.
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow"
To everything there must be begin
ming. Progress should be natural, cheer
full, healthful, genial, moral and vigor-
GUS; not Overstrained or under hOt-bed
precocity to get to the university: for.
when there, it would have to be told IL
came too soon, ana must take new
start In preparation.
Good will come of present seeming
chaos and rivalry In Texas institutions.
Thought is nightly aroused in the pop
ular mind as well as in the literati in
terested; perhaps some such and their
hinchmen, little too much interested
for self, without paramount regard for
the great public or the body OF the peo-
pie. Plain men know that something
else must be done in this world than
simply to be studying books eternally,
and that most men must be content with
only moderate book learning. Common
sense has still its uses, even If there are
millionsires and surplus In the ma
tional treasury. There are a number of
people in only moderate circumstances.
EDUCATOR,