Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-04

utmost toward the enterprise:
We shall erect, in the summer of
1893, our first building, which will be
a section of the structure whose front
elevation has been exhibited for some
time in Strader d Richards window.
We have in view, from the outset, the
laying not only of Il cornerstone, but of
capstone, when the entire building, as
there portrayed, shall adorn our hills.
Somewhere within the limits of this
Crmsus of American commonweaths
there must one day stand building as
superb as this, if Washington's finish
ing schools are TO be worthy of her
foundation schools, if her haunts of
thought are to be compared with her
halls of action. The common schools
of this state are housed better than
those of almost any Eastern common
wealth; the business houses of Wash.
ington make the Atlantic coast cities
look like back-numbers; and, in the
very nature of the case, there must
some day be within this state, and i'm
this Puget sound basin, an educational
institution whose architecture shall be
worthy of the name of university
We believe Fairhaven is TO be that
place; our plans preempt it; the struct-
ure we shall erect will be such that the
twentieth century will be proud of it,
and we shall set it i'm campus which
will epitomize and Illustrate the mar
velous foliage and flower producing
power of our soil and climate. This
honor, | say, shall be Bellingham
bays, the honor of having hc best
university building on he globe.
But this is not all our plan. We
want men in the class-rOOms of our
buildings, who shall be its soul. Brick
and stone, however wonderfully
erected are only the body of the
university; its teachers are its soul.
We want good body for the univer-
sity, that it may leap, not limp; but
we want yet more n good soul in il
that it may leap, not for prize-money,
but for principle. We could do better
with good soul and a poor body than
with a good body and poor soul.
Robert Burns was poorly housed in
"the auld clay biggin', - but that cot
ter's hut is one of humanity's colleges
today. The lordship in whose library he
wrote the prayer TO the maggots tu
'spare the golden bindings" of the
books, was grandly housed, but no
one visits his castle. President Garfield
once said that if Mark Hopkins sat on
one end of a log, to teach, and he on
the other to learn, it would be college
for him. Princeton has grown from
such log college to the university ol
today because men, great, grand men
were its founders and first teachers
We must have our superb structure anC
we must have our superb men in il tC
teach, otherwise, if need were, rea
students would go where the logs ye
lay ON the ground, if there they cOulC
learn of larger men. Wise men one,
brought their gifts of gold and frank
incense and myrrh into "a stable. W.
mean, therefore, to have first-clas
, teachgTs, and first-clas teachers only
in our institution. Better smal
faculty Of choice men than a TOWNSHIP
I. of inferior ones. And the number q
iirstclass men we shall have depend
again on Bellingham bays desire 70
unsurpassable professors, and her will
!, ingness TO support them.
What do we desire these men {
? teach? Whom are they to teach? III
= timately almost everything and every
= body except those whom IL is the mis-
= = sion of public schools to teach.
A university, if understand it, is al
, institution which enables man to un
: derstand, apply himself to and appl.
to himself the universe. There
. therefore no phase of thought or actiol
with which it may not have conneC
: ton. A mans body is a part of tn
: universe-thereiore anatomy and phys
. iology, to understand it; therefore
: medical school, that he may apply him
: self to and apply to himself the uni
verse through knowledge of hygien
and materia medica. Mans civil lif
is "a part of the universe-therefore his
tory, political economy, law, that h
may understand it; therefore schools q
history, political science, law that h
, may apply himself to and apply 3
himself humanity's civil life. Man
! art is part of the universe, therefor
schools of music, painting; man
- speech is part of the universe, therefor
schools of language. The forces an,
; facts of nature are part Of the universt
therefore exact science schools to ge
, the facts, applied science schools TO US
= the forces. Hence, in the same way
many other schools. The number q
!. these Fairhaven shall have as part G
y the university depends upon her actioi
now and the growth Of time. But al
q oak is only perfected acorn, and tn
acorn to produce a good oak must be
:, good acorn.
: Immediately, it seems to me, W
!, should aim to establish four of thes
y schools, viz: A school giving instruC
ton in language, ancient and moder
!, history, mathematics, natural scienC
|. and other elements of general and ger
:, erous culture leading to the degree {
a A. b.; school of applied science leaC
e ing to degree in civil engineering
!, - mining engineering or electric engiI
e eering; a school of law, leading to III
y degree of l.. l.. B, and school Of fir
: arts. The degree Of A. B. we shoul
open to all who could come up to III
!, requirements Of rigorous course, [
/. which, without further examination
:, we should admit the graduates of evs
high school i'm the state, and for II
4 sake of the better scholars we shoul
~ offer also "degree with honorsu an
a a "degree with highest honors"