Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-16
THE UNIVERSITY

,he board of Home Missions, will be
acre about the 10th of June to look
after the interests of the proposed
on Bellingham bay, and at
that time active steps will be taken to
close up the contributions of lands for
the university endowments.
1t is strange thing that all persons
owning large tracts of land in this
vicinity cannot see the great advant-
ages that would accrue TO them by the
establishment here of such an institu-
tion as that under consideration and
of which so much has been printed in
the HERALD as to what its projectors
intend making it. Some of the land
holders seem TO think that in order to
make the university directly beneficial
to them it should be built on their
ground. OF course the university can
only be built on one spot, but when 1t
is built, no matter where, on the main
land about Bellingham bay, it will en-
nance the value of every foot of prop
erty in this region. There will be
several hundred thousands Of dollars
| expended on the structure and its con-
tents. and the building will be so inn
posing, beautiful and superb that 1T
will be an ornament to the Bellingham
bay region, and indeed to the State of
Washington. In this material way
| it will advance the material interests
of every land-holder in this region, and
aside from that such an institution
would call to reside here hundreds of
the best people on the Pacific
coast, and elsewhere, who would
come hithcr for the purpose of
obtaining the educational advantages
that the university would provide,
thus, another immeasureasurably val
liable element would be ours.
1t seems that there are hundreds of
wealthy land owners here who do not
comprehend how very important this
university proposition is, and there
are doubtless many who look at the
proposition as being such an immense
one that it cannot possibly be seriously
entertained. The fact is that the
people who are endeavoring to estab-
lish this noble institution are very
much in earnest, and heir zeal is of
the unflagging kind. They know how
great the project is and they appreci-
ate the fact that "Rome was not built
in a day." hence, they will work indie
fatigably at the proposition until their
hopes and ambitions in this behalf are
crowned with success, or until hope,
| in that direction, is beaten down and
and utterly anihilated by the indiffer
l ance of those who can make the uni
I versity a success by contributions o
e lands from which they will MAKE
/. money in the very act of donating 1T
The great trouble here seems to b.
that that the active, enterprising PEG
t pie. who are comparatively newcomers
n and therefore have not much land t.
# spare, or have given all they can al
10 ford. while the mossbacks who ow
large tracts are unable TO comprehen
" what great good to themselves an
T. the region would result froi
II the establishment of the universit
E. here. Many of them hay
never been to school, themselvt
and they cannot understand no
schools-at least such schools as tn
is proposed to be-can be of any be-
Is eft materially or socially. That hi
eff always been the greatest drawback
nt new countries. Mossbacks hold {
Sc and retard development and progress
DIS till grim death loosens their grip ar
al then enterprise has a chance. Fro
ty this the general public can easily col
n prehend the great advantage that
is few select funerals sometimes give
ic. a country that needs deyelopmer
II. and which enterprise cannot deyel
ms until those funerals occur.
ed In communities like this there a
nd always people who cannot see he
Ter great things are to be done until tn
on are done, and then, frequently, tn
rs. do not comprehend what has be
to done. There are people in Fairhav
who have seen the city grow up arou
in them and who didn't know what "
nd going on, and who do not know to Il
cir day how it happened, what it ha
ms pened for, nor what the advantag
nd Of the situation are.
EN- There are people here who laugh
lite in imbecile derision when the talk
ib- building the beautiful Hotel Fla
not haven first began, and who said, &C
ect that's pretty good scheme to $
to town lotsr' Those same perso
ng. when the foundations Of that buildi
were laid still said, That's pre-
md cheap way to sell town lotsw WI
9TH the walls of the building were up I'll
re- didn't think that it would ever
re- rooted in, and after it was complet
cir they didn't think 1t would ever
md opened, while enterprising, go-ahe
the people, were vigorously pushing bu
bly, ness and at the same time arrangi
md for good time at the opening b
My and having their dress-suits clear
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