The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-09

own State as look out of my win
dow over the city and see everywhere
the old iag-waving in memory of
our own Washington. When / 60
down into the heart Of this great
busting Yankee city, everywhere
quiet reigns, her pulse is still. l
step into great hall and there in
the presence Of patriotic thousands
the venerable DR.. Edward Everett
Hale is talking of that scene when
the great virginian took command
of the army that encircled the "city
Of the Puritans."
So thus reminded of home, as a
filial son set me down to write you
my thoughts. In my last letter /
spoke OF Harvard University; to-day
/ shall continue to speak of the edu-
cational institutions of this literary
centre.
When one comes to Boston and
hears her people talking so much
about her culture and learning,
about her schools and libraries and
great facilities for education, he at
first thinks Of the "Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" where he speaks
Of the conceit of places and says:
"The axis of the earth sticks out
yisibly through the centre of each
and every town and city," and is in
clined to be skeptical. But let him
stay, and by and by, as he sees for
himself, he will conclude that the
city's praises have never been chant
ed too loud. This is the ideal city
of the scholar, and as a place for ed
vocational advantages it certainly
stands without a peer in America.
Two hundred and fifty years ago
Boston inaugurated system of free
schools which each year have grown
towards perfection, until to-day her
most perfect system of free schools
in the world instruct $4,000 pupils.
At some other time l intend to
dwell at length upon these; to-day /
shall speak more particularly Of the
great University to which the city
has given her own name-Boston
University. Standing, as does her
principal buildings, on Beacon Hill
within sight of Harvard, Tafts and
Institute of Technology, and within
sound of Wellesley and Amherst,
she is as James Russell Lowell says,
"the centre of the solar system"
Only ten years old, she has more
students than Harvard, with her $50
years of age, had ten years ago.
With an endowment almost as large
as Harvard's, and increasing with
almost incredible rapidity, her future
is secured. AS University in many
respects she now stands out as the
NEST progressive American institu-
tion of learning 1t includes at pres
emit three colleges, four professional
schools, and post graduate school
of universal science.
The school of Liberal Arts is pc
culiar in the high requirements it
demands Of those applying for adj
mission and in that it's entire course
can be elected. 1t believes in best
and most thorough instruction, so
the various classes in the sciences
are taught in various colleges. For
instance, for botany the class goes
over to Harvard; in physics to the
Institute of Technology. The reason
assigned is that no one Institution
can hope to have the best specialists
in all departments; hence Boston
University, proposing to have her
students taught by the most eminent
specialists in the land, sends them
from her own walls to them. The
plan is most feasible, located as is
the University in the centre Of Bos-
ton, and is attracting much favora-
Bile remark among New England ed
ucators.
The School of Medicine was the
first one in the country to present
courses of instruction four years in
length.
The School of Law was also first
to offer three sears' course for the
degree, and to confer only degrees
upon candidates having first taken
the A. B. This is one Of the most
popular departments of the Univer-
sity, and that it is growing in favor
may be inferred from the fact that
many of the Harvard boys come here
to take their law courses. About
20 per cent. of the students are Har-
ward graduates. OF the School of
Theology-the oldest theological
school of the M. E. Church, will
not speak, as / have before alluded
to it. 1t is liberal and broad, en-
ploying lecturers of other denomina-
tions, and aims to teach theology
and not sectarian tenets. While it
/ is free from the so-called sheresies,' =
the students live in an air of inquiry
and are invited to investigation. -
Some of the professors are fresh
from the German Universities, and
have become thoroughly versed in
German theology and philosophy.
For several years past the whole
number of students in the Schools
of Theology, Law and Medicine has
exceeded that of any other American
University.
/ The School Of Music-the New
England Conservatory-is too well
known to your readers to need any
words of mine, as it has no rival in
the New World.
i The School Of All Sciences, organ
lied exclusively for post graduate
instruction, under its Dean Borden
| P. Bovine, Ii. D., with its associate
| faculties of the National University,
at Athens, and the Royal University
at Rome, is the browning feature OF
this great University. Her stu
dents are in Athens and Rome
studying classic literature, history
and art; they are here, all working
for the much coveted Phi. d. The
instruction is, entirely without text
books, by means of lectures. The
student is referred to the immense
libraries Of the city for information
and much original work is demanded
of him in theses, monographs and
lectures.
! Now / come to the real object OF
this letter. Boston University or