The morning call., 1893-05-28

versity has not only brought new faculty and
Il new concourse OF students into our educa-
tional world, but has stimulated the desire for
education In all parts OF the State.
meantime, the older university has, during
the last decade, been pre- airing the way for
such expansion by acquiring a closer relation
snip win the preparatory schools of the State
There was period of diScouragement after
the adoption OF California's new constitution
which made no provision for the support of
high schools by allotments from the general
fund. That coHstitu lou threw the responsi-
biity and The burden of high school education
entirely upon HE local communities. But
within the past few years laws have been
passed encouraging the formation OF union
high schools aud district high schools, and
many such schools have already been planted
as result Of these developments there has
been much better opportunity for prepara-
tlon for college course than eXis ed before in
the smaller cities and In the scattered towns of
the State. The State University has Increased
LIS numbers within he past three years more
than 90 Fer cent
Two questions arise in regard to this new de-
velopment of college training. First, will 1t
continue Second, upon what lines Will it be
carried forward ?
firsi-Will ihis expansion of college training
prove permanent, or will it be like the real
estate DoonS In some portions of California
which were followed by a corresponding
period OF depression? That this DEVELOPMENT
Is not to be compared with the fitfu inflatons
in real estate may readily be seen from such
considerations as the following:
Thestesire for tie higher educat ion has been
wonderfully stimulated throughout our coun.
try. In The leading institutions or the East HE
plumbers In attendance have increased IN an
unprecedented way. Harvard. for Instance.
Yale, Cornell, Michigan, have more than
doubled their old attendance. Apart from the old
established colleges, he schools OF technology
have received remarkable development, like
the Massachusetts Institute at Boston, The
higher education in general has drawn to Itself
much more attention than ever before. Col.
lege training is In the air in all the Eastern
States, and 1t would be strange IL California
should escape the con.agion of this influence
Our ntercommunicatiou with the other States
tie continual additions to our population from
the East, tie coming In of educated men from
ali parts of our ceunlry, have strengthened the
d. sire for higher !faining, which was latent In
our State years and years ago California is
too much In touch with other communities
through our country to lose the impulse which
1t has now received. This impulse means
higher training. not only at the colleges and
universities themselves. but at many other
ceDteis of intelligence. This last expansion OF
college work has taken the general name OF
university extension.
The name University Extension indeed, has
come from across The Atlantic and the methods
II Indicates took their rise in England; but our
American communities have not been slow TO
profit by the example. When IL was found thai
there could be organized college woIK carried
on at some distance from the college centers
there arose call for uch work from all PARTS
of the land. The Chautauqua movement had
prerared The way for university extension; and
while that was upon lower lines of instruction
1t afforded sound preparation for the new ad-
vance known as university extension. Ijis not
TO be supposed hat having once tasted the
sweets of The higher education. CalifornIans
Will allow themselves TO be deprived of the ad-
vantages which have now been reached
throughout our country. The higher education
has sef-perpetuating nature; 1t has pro-
6uced thirst for learning and scienc ce which
is not 10 be quenched College WORK. espe-
cially In It's own centers and in its own proper
institutions. is fixed too firmly TO lose its hold
In this State; ana with the instruction In OUT
lying places 1t seems certan that college train
ng has before 1t in California Wide future
and an increasing power
One reason for the expanSion of college work
throughout orr country has been the change of
direction on many lines of the higher educa-
tion. Formerly 1t was thought that The gradu-
ate OF college was 10 be a professional man.
and by profession was understood one of the
three so-called learned professions theology,
law and medicine. SO. II We look upon the
catalogues of the older Eastern INSTITUTIONS we
find that these three professions absorb mos.
of tile names registered therein. But 10 process
OF lime II was felt That educate men need not
c0nfne themselves 10 these three professions.
and that those whose lines OF work we're TO be
in very different directions might wen seek for
the same higher lraining. Aud so find that
in later years large Numbers of cole gradu-
ates have given Ihemselves to the new profess
sions-to journalism. 20 literature and espe-
cially 10 teaching.
There has also been wonderful expansion
of what may be called the sem-indusfrial pro-
fessions, such as civil engineering mechanical
engineering, mining engineering. These plo