The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-14
THE GARFIELD
The Transfer Deed Of hat Noble institution
Filed for Record Yesterday.


Filed for Record Yesterday.
Yesterday the deed transferring all the
right, title and interest in the Garfield
university 10 Edgar Harding OF Boston,
was flied in the registers Office OF the
county, and last night Mr.. Harding left
the city to join his mother. who Is in
Lower California a. present.
When the EAGLE heraIded the fact TO
the people of Wichita yesterday morning
that the university had been freed from
debt, there were general manifestations Of
approval and everybody was heartily glad
70 know that the noble institution
viii be finished according to plans and
put II running order as early as
possible The news was particularly pleas
ing 70 citizens OF the West Side, who will
be benefited more directly, perhaps, than
those on the east side OF the river. but
there were no evidences of sectional pride
or jealousy TO be found on either hand
The fact OF the matter IS the Garfield uni
yersity Is. aud Of right should be, a source
OF pride TO not only the citizens OF West
Wichita and East Wichita, aud Sedgwick
county but 10 the entire state of Kansas.
IL is the grandest temple OF education that
can be found today west of the Mississippi
river and east OF the Pacific slope. II is a
grand monument to the enterprise Of
the citizens OF this city and one
that will remain to commemorate
that enterprise until the great grand
children of the present generation will be
gray with age. In centuries yet unborn
the traveller OF another age, will have II
pointed out to him as an evidence OF the
enterprise of those who planned its erec-
ton. From beneath its roof the future
statesmen and great men who Will add 20
the fame of Kansas viii graduate and
who knows, perhaps, but that It
is destined TO furnish the United States
with another Garfield. Lincoln, Grant,
Madison, Jefferson or Edison. 1t may de-
velope the grandson OF the poor washer
woman OF the present day into the Webster
of the next century, and who knows but
what the Beecher, or the Sturgeon, or the
Talmadge of the future. may receive his
mental equipment inside its walls.
The Garfield university was commenced
in 1887 and is, as stated the largest and
most imposing edifce OF its kind west OF
the Mississippi. Its auditorium alone has
a seating capacity for 1000 persons which
is said to be as great capacity as there IS
in any schoo! building in the United
States When it was iu operation three
years ago, only partially finished, it was
attended by as high as 800 students, not
withstanding the fact that there was no
particular effort made IN the line OF pro
curing pupils. From now on it will be
different Agents will be put in the field
soliciting students and nothing Will be
left undone to make it one of the most
popular institutions of learning in the
United States. Mr.. Harding the proprie-
tor is not very communicative
about his plans to the public, but his init
mate friends here. those who are ID posi-
ton TO know his designs. say he will leave
nothing undone to make it rank with the
best universities in the United States. be
IS IA gentleman of almost unlimited wealth,
being reputed to be worth s. coo, 600, and
this being the case there will be no lack OF
funds or no financial embarrassments
whatever in the way of the success OF the
university. As a location for such uul-
versity there is no better than Wichita. 1t
is in the very center OF these vast agrl-
cultural regions which will, III time, con
stitute the richest portion OF the I nIted
States. The climate is also very favorable,
or at least it is so stated by those who
know the advantages and drawbacks of
certain varieties of climate on university
life. Texas promises to be a great field for
the soliciting agents of the university,
and in time Oklahoma will Texas
has practically no trst-class in
stitution of learning, and owing
to it's torrid tempreture it IS said by those
who know something about the subject
that it never can have. The young men of
that commonwealth with neutrally look
towards Kansas for their classical tuition
on account of its contigu1ty TO their own
state and the era of good feeling that is
now existing between that state and Kan
sas in other lines. will uuquestionably en-
hance the probability of their coming here
to get their educational training. New
Mexico will also be a good field and 50 viii
Colorado and other adjacent states. In
fact students from both New Mexico and
Colorado will not be strangers in Wichita
for there are at present students from these
states in All Hallows academy in this
city.
In the opinion of many Of the best post
ed men in the city the renewal OF educa-
tional operations in the Garfield UNIVERSE
ty will be the best thing for Wichita that
has happened thi year.