Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-10

assemblage Of churchmen, and he asserted
that II the Young Peoples Union should
finally be formed under such auspices 1t
would bear a stigma upon its BIRTH There
were several rather sharp speeches made,
but harmony was finally restored, and DR..
Pitt OF Virginia presented the report of the
fG ca fFG% the he states which
had offered during the morning meeting.
The report declared that 1t was the sense
of the conference that an auxiliary organi-
cation of young people was desirable; that
the conference be requested to provide for
such an organization; that a committee be
appointed to present the resolutions to the
conference; that such organizations as
might be effected should fully recognize the
autonomy of the churches, leaving to each
church the question whether 1t should have
T such union, whether there should be out
side utilization, and the character of such
afhliation.
After favorable speech had been made
by DR.. Hawthorne of Atlanta, Rev. A. E.
Owen of Virginia vigorously attacked the
resolutions. The addresses for and against
the proposition were at times quite sharp,
and after considerable time had been spent
in the debate the question was put to a
vote, and, after some difficulty, the secreta-
ries announced the tallies as follows: In
favor of adoption, 1854; against, 215. The
meeting adjourned amid some confusion.
THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.
Earnest Speakers Urge Making 1t n
Great National Institution.
The American Baptist Educational So
ciety met last night and continued the
work of Wednesday evening. The subject
of discussion was tifp-future Of Columbian
University and the advantage of Wash
ington as the site for a great national uni
versity. DIR. S. H. Green, acting president
OF the university, briefly reviewed the his
tory of the institution, showing that though
at all times there had been men of almost
every denomination both among the trus-
tees and the faculty, the Baptist element
had always been in the ascendancy, and the
question was whether the denomination
should let the great institution drag on in
half-hearted way or let go its control al
together. But there was another alterna-
tive, that the Raptists should stand up to
the work that was plainly theirs and push
the university forward to its proper place,
both as the great monument to Baptist
educational work and as the greatest
American institution of learning at the
capital. DR.. Green heartily Endorsed all
that Prof. Mason had said the evening be-
fore, and he closed his remarks with an
earnest appeal 10 the educational society
to use every effort to put the university
upon its proper footing.
Work of Other Denominations.
DR.. F. NJ. Ellis of Brooklyn said that
other denominations that had originally
not one-teEth the opportunity afforded by
an old-established college like Columbian
had pushed into the field and are making
stch Roadway that the older institution is
In danger of being crowded to the wall.
He spoke of the work being done by the
Methcdists and the Catholics to show the
advantage of their concentrated energy,
and he reinforced DR.. Green's characterize
ton of the treatment of the university by
the Baptist Church. The university had
a m
lars and deserves permanent endowment
of not less than million more. 1t re-
mains with the Baptists of the country,
he added, to determine whether the play
now on the boards should terminate as
a tragedy or a farce. Dr. Ellis alluded to
the vacancy now existing in the office of
president and brought forth the name of
DR.. Whitman of Colby University who
has been seriously mentioned for tie po-
sition. This served as a pleasant introduc-
ton to DIR. Whitman. who spoke later.
Postmaster General Wilson's Views.
Postmaster General Wilson was intro
duced, and spoke with considerable feeling
in advocacy of the proposed extension Of
the university He referred to the story
told last night about the Williamsburg Col
lege. in the n ountains of Kentucky, and
said with few changes In the picture, it
could be made to represent the frontier in
situations of learning of the preceding gen.
erations. That little mountain college and
the trials 1t is experiencing are but the
trials encoun tered by the great schools of
the east in their early days. But Column
bian University is not mountain college
but a great metropolitan university. The
growth of the university is necessarily Slow
he said, but he cited Johns Hopkins Uni
versity az an instance of great Institution
developed within a few years. The men
who had laid the foundations of Columbian
University had been wise. They had seen
the possibilities of future development and
realized that they could establish school
which would build up and diffuse a great
spirit of patriotism throughout the land.
He spoke of the great libraries of the city
and the aid they would be to the university.
Unless they were going to make Columbian
a great university. in his opinion they had
better stop where they were.
DIR. Whitman's Address.
Dr. Whitman spoke on the aims of edu-
cation, the qualifications Of teachers, and
the ethics of university training. taking
high ground as to the moral responsibility
involved. and urging a greater appreciation
of the high calling Of the men whose COM
partnership and training had so much to dc
with moldfng the lives of coming genera
tiors. University teachers, he said more
than any other class of men, effected their
aim by reason of their own personality.
Their influence upon their classes was not
so much by what they taught as by what
they were, and too much attention could
rot be given to choosing men for university
ork. and in affording them every facility
for maturing their powers and keeping
themselves in the closest touch with the
progress of the age.
The following were then elected officers
and the society adjourned President, An
drew McLeish, Illinois; vice presidents, J.
P. Greene, D. D., Missouri, and Hon. ]. N.
Dolph, Oregon; recording secretary, Rev. E.
NJ. Poteat, Connecticut; corresponding sec
rotary, H. L. Morehouse, d. D., New York
treasurer, Joshua lowering, Maryland; au-
ditor, W. NJ. Isaacs, New York.
New President for the Seminary,
The board of trustees of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary held long
meeting last night In the parlors of the
Ebbitt House, for the purpose of electing
the president of the seminary to succeed
DIR. John A. Broadus, recently deceased
Prof William Heth Whitsitt was finally
chosen, shortly before midnight. He is a
native of Tennessee, being now nearly fifty
four years Of age He graduated at Union
University at the age of twenty, and after
serving in the confederate service through
the war went to the University of Virginia,
and then took theological course at the
Greenville Seminary. He spent two years
at Berlin and Leipsic, and in 1872 was elect
ed professor of ecclesiastical history at the
theological seminary. He is the author of
several works. The seminary is the largest
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