The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-23
UNIVERSITY LOCATION.
Some Very Good Reasons Ad-
vanced Tor Removal.

Scos Va SEisSisity, mlScOnstrues
the whole subject.
In the first place. such a city As
mentioned by the Herald was no,
asked for-nnne of the competing
places mentioned contained over
ID, 600 inhabitants.
Secondly, we defy the Herald to
prove its statement that to be city a
place must contain not less than
%, 900 inhabitants"
Thirdly. as to the influence of the
university Of Virginia of the south,
that university can not claim all the
honor even since long before the war
many of the south's greatest men
have teen educated in the north,
notably at Harvard and Yale.
The university of Virginia has not
prospered ror does the university #
\Irginla rank at the top,
for many of her graduates
finished their education at other inst
buttons. This il proved by the fact
that several OF the faculty Of M,ssou-
ii state university graduated at Vir-
ginia university and finished at Har-
ward and John Hopkins.
As to the compare i've evils of Il
large city or village, the founders of
the Chicago university at least are OF
equal authority with any prejudiced
paper in Columbia. We respectfully
deny that it is alleged that all uuiver-
sites are located in cities. The
Herald speaks of Columbia as the
place where the atmosphere is free and
where tie benefits Of education will
not be counteracted by ruined morals
and wrecked lives. What nonsense,
Before the purifying influence of the
fire, University street, which leads
from the campus TO the postcffice, was
a perpetu Il stencil.
The Bab5 property. diagonally
across from the university boarding
club has been condemned.
The article reviewed by the Herald
states that number Of the leading
universities are loo ate 4 in cities.
The universities proper of Americ,
are, with one or two exceptions, To-
Gated in cities. Grant that the Uni
versity of Michigan WIS located in a
sma town the latter was in a position
to grow, and has done so, while the
Herald itself in another article admits
that Columbia has not grown when it
states that most of the places (al-
though it must admit they are now
tar in advance Of Columbia) we're not
in existence when the university was
first established at Columbia.
The Herald states that John Hop.
kins is a postgraduate rather than an
under -gradua e institution.
There is really no such distinction,
nearer the truth is the statement that
John Hopkins is a university, and
many of the so-called universities are
only high schools and colleges.
A university is place where the
highest culture and training are Of
fered.
Postgraduate work is only a con.
taminatiOn Of the same kind and not
an entrance into another school as the
Herald would have US sudpose.
The Herald ignores what consti.
tuies university and also the att
tude of the present administration to-
wards a modern university. That a.
titude was set forth at the last State
Teachers Association. There it was
plainly stated that to have u uuiver-
sity We must cease to do high school !
work and do only university work /; |
that We ought not to compete with |
the high schools and colleges of the
state but should rise above them.
One of tie central notions of a |
university is that it is place where
students are free to choose whatever
line of work they may think best.
They have received the foundation
Of their education in preparatory
schools. They have chosen their cali
lng for life and it is only right that
they should choose work best fitting
them for that calling. This is impos-
slble outside OF a great university.
1t is the hope Of the faculty and /
students TO make this a university |
second to none in the world, but that |
is impossible SO long as it remains
a Boone county high school. Ii is
hardly high school in comparison
with the universities of Germany.
Of the German high schools
are admitted into the universities. but
graduates Of this institution are no.
admitted on their diplomas, but on
their passports. We do not do uni
versity work here. This is attested |
ny the fact that our best graduates
have gone to higher institutions to get !
the instruction and reputation that 4