Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30
AMERICAS BULWARK

One of the especial features of adj
vancement which has marked the
growth of the United States is the
progress made in the public school sys-
tenn and the encouragement given to
colleges and universities for the higher
education of the youth of the country.
The generous provision made for edu-
cational facilities all the way from
training the child mind in the kinder
garten to the highest branches taught,
has widened the intellectual horizon
and increased the possibilities of the
entire nation. Both with personal
contributions and in their votes at the
polls the people of this great nation
have shown commendable and splen-
did zeal with respect to the subject of
education, school houses, colleges and
universities having been founded and
fostered with a most generous hand.
The earliest settlers to cross the ocean
and claim the newly-discovered conti-
nent as their future home, brought
with them a love for learning coupled
with the full determination that their
growing children should be cared for
in their school life as jealously as
though the new country at its very
birth had already attained the highest
. reach of civilization. Woven into the
very fiber of the young colonies was
the germ out of which has sprung the
splendid school system and growth Of
3 institutions of higher learning which
is so rapidly becoming one of the dis
tinctive features of the American
. people.
. In keeping with this peculiar feature
of our national institutions, and looking
upon the higher education of the grow
. ing boys and girls of our state as o
y special importance in maintaining tn
D future population of the state, has tn
g University of Fairhaven been organ
V lied and every effort made looking to
y wards its fullest and broadcast success
% 1t is the intention to give the univer
: sity standing second to no other Of
10 the Pacific coast. There Is no nee'
whatever of an additional educationa
institution with a limited scope AM
u means. There is growingly impera
tive and urgent need Of a great univel
:, sity, with large aims and built on
=" basis calculated to win a national fame
= With such an ideal in view, it is us
y less to take decisive steps towards tn
y erection of buildings until a sufiicien
= endowment has been secured In land
e warrant the university against financii
y embarrassment, or to reduce it from II
- :, broad field of operations to local IL
= stitution. The president Of the I'm
Z versity has undertaken to raise u
- funds requisite for the erection Of III
:. university buildings, in which he
=. meeting with marked encouragement
~ In addition to this, an excellent AL
~ commanding site for the institution hi
-. been secured and a considerable amour
of land has been donated towards u
~ endowment fund. 1t only remains 4
an the property owners OF the county
bring their hearty and generous su
port to the university, to not only =
cure its unquestioned success, but
TX, the same time to aid In spreading u
ce, fame of Whatcom county throug
at out the nation as the home Of an ms
me tuition of learning equal to any Of n
of Pacific coast. Every property owner
DIS. Whatcom county should gladly ava
ssh himself of the opportunity to lend 9
the sistance to 80 worthy an enterprise
iu- this, whose presence in the coun
la must not only induce a much desir
are character Of populstion to seek its hor
ay- here, but which win prove q consta
at source Of pleasure and profit to the e
of tire people. Let this Worlds fair We
tn, be made memorable one TO our re
the dents by their hearty and generous CO
rks tributions to the endowment fund