Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-13
BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.
THB GREAT INSTITUTION THAT Is SOON TO
BR FOUNDED.
At Least S2OOOO,OOO Expected as an Endowment
Fund-The Name Of John D. Rockefeller Men
toned in Connection With h-Chsractsr
and Scope Of As Institution.

PHILADELPHIA, February 12-Bsptist
clergymen in this city place great credence
in the report that large University issoon
to be founded either 10 New York, Chicago
or Washington, to be controlled by the
Baptist Church. The endowment fund Of
this new University is to be $40, 600, 600,
which is thought not to be overestmsted,
owing to its mammoth size and scope.
Rev. Dr.. WsyIand Hoyt stated yesterday
that he had the best of reasons for believ-
Jog that such q University would be found
ed and placed under the oontIoi of the
Bspiist Church. 81 know" said the
doctor, "that our people have been agita-
ting the matter. The principal aud prime
mover has been DIR. Roberts, Prosident o.
the Rochester Theological Seminary, of
Rochester, n. Y. He hes been actively
engaged lately in interviewing some Of the
wealthiest members Of the Church in the
L Eist, and has no doubt probably secuIed
promises OF many large endowments. ."
When asked whether there was any
truth in the rumor that John d. Rccke-
teller, of New York, the millionaire Pres
ident of the Standard Oil Company, was
to give $40, 600, 600 for the endowment Of
the great University, Dr.. Hoyt stated that
he did not know, but thought ii rather
improbable that Mr. Rockefeller had prom
ised TO give so large an amount as that IL
was possible, however, that both Mr.
Rockefeller aad Rev. DR.. Strong, the prom
inent Baptist clergyman of New York, had
expressed their purpose 10 give large eu-
dowmepts. Dr. Hoyt then described the
plan aud object of the new institution.
The design of the contemplated Unlver-
sity il to be some vhat like that oi the
German Universities, and wider IN IT.
scope than the John Hopkins Uniycrsiiy M
this country. No ono gill be mstricuia-
ted who has not already been graduated
from some reputable college. THIS Is to
obviate the necessity of 20 many Of the coll
lege graduates OF the United States being
obliged to 20 10 Germany, Austria, Eng
land, and other Europeln countries, in or
der to thoroughly finish their education,
and become what ia known in the Latin
term Of "cultusn The new institution is
not designed TO be conducted on any sec
tartan basis to the exclusion Of all other
denominations than the Baptist. 'This
contemplated University" said the doc
tor, twill be boon 70 this country and
our Church. II has long been needed, and
if it shall be built the New World will bo
abreast of the Old in educational adyau-
tages. The founding Of such University,
az every rational person will concede, will
enhance tie educational status OF this
country"
As to the locstiou of the institution, any
one of the three places named above would
ba excellent. The chances are, however,
that the site will be either New York or
Washington. New York Bapiists, on ac-
count OF their wealth, will endeayor TO
secure the institution for that city by free
" opening their pocketbooks,, Washing
ton, however, II very desirable place iOr
several reasons It would bo near the
great postgraduate University OF Johns
Hopkins, at Baltimore. A spirit OF emu
lation would ensue by which both institu-
tions would he improved. A great card,
however. would be in the city Of Washing
ton itself. where the Smithsonian lnsiitu-
ton is situated, and where the sluiene OF
the new University could have free access
TO the numerous Libraries which that city
posf esses. Then, too, the students would
have all the advantages of studying prac-
as well az theoretically the
science CT politics and all the diplomatic
arts.