The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-14
SATURDAY, AUGUST IA.
Editorial.

ASSASS ALTON Is
The ASSASSINATION nothing new in his.
OF UanoVas' tory and from Julius
Caesar to Garfield and Sadi-Carnot t. the
world has been startled by the removal
of public men 10 this tragic way. The
murder of the Premier of Spain, Senior
Cauovas, is the latest of these startling
and terrible deeds which reveal how
little impression has been made by the
civilization of the centuries on evil dis
uosed uen who. acting from revenge or
as the agent of political conspi-
racy, have murdered public men. The
assassination of last Sunday is only
another evidence that European an
archy is active and still pursues its ter
rible aims. The fact that Canovas was
undoubtedly responsible for much of
the suffering in Cuba, and that his ad-
ministration of the island through Wey-
Ter was cruel and remorseless, will not
detract from the horror with which his
murder is received by the civilized
world. The Italian anarchist who has
stricken down the foremost statesman
of Spain, will suffer for his crime. but
he leaves others behind OF his own evil
order. who will not fail to murder again
and again after his terrible example.
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ONE of our Chicago
Bogus degrees concerns, with du-
in England. bious reputation, was
the subject of comment in the British
House of Commons last week. when MI.
BaIfour. the Government Leader ana
First Lord Of the Treasury, in answer to
a question from the House. replied that
Her Majesty's Government would con-
slider the ACCESSIBILITY Of prosecuting on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses, the agents OF the so
called National University of Chicago.
for offering to confer degrees for So.oo
,each." This has led our Chicago papers
to again expose the methods OF the con-
Germ in this city that furnishes degrees
to order for a financial consideration.
Some of our down East clergyman, we
are ashamed to say, parade degrees OF
DID. obtained from this institution on
an alleged correspondence plan. Sue
degrees are never recognized In HE
UNIvERsALrsr. An expose Of this insti-
tuition has appeared in our columns,
and in various city papers. Her Males
tvs Government will make short work
of all such fraudulent concerns. We
are sorry that they cannot be suppressed
in this country. 1t is disgrace and
not an honor to wear title obtained in
this way and Universalist clergymen
ought to be made aware OF the fact.
~OS
The Record, OF this
Teaching in Our city, is doing an ex-
Public Schools. celIent work in it's
aSummer School at Home" series of ar
ticlee in which literature and literary
criticism, popular and applied science
and teaching as a profession are dis
cussed by leading clergymen. educators
and prominent public men throughout
the country. One of the questions dis
cussed is this: what are the most i'm
portant subjects to be taught in Ameri.
can public schoolsf" Edward Atkinson.
Abram S. Hewitt. the governors OF
Ohio, Georgia and Utah and several
Roman Catholic bishops are among
those who are represented in the sym
postum. The Rev. Kerr Boyce Upper,
of Philadelphia, makes answer that the
public schools should emphasize:
Study of literature, not to the exclu-
81 of but in proportion to mathematics.
I impresses me that the curricula of our
public schools are placing far too much
emphasis upon mathematics to the eX-
clusion of, to some extent, history and
literature.
2. Moral culture. We should teach our
youth 10 recognize that without this gea-
ius may be fatal gift.
3. Manual training, as well as intel
our public school youth are to be mechan-
les, carpenters, seamstresses, etc.
4. Patriotic sentiments. Our schools
should be American in thought and char
acter, thoroughly and gloriously.
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How true is the word
Integrity OF of inspiration which
Moral Action afirms that "fools
die for the want of wisdom Every
one feels that in reference to himself
and in reference to those with whom
he is connected. that there are certain
duties to perform. Every one feels al
least that there is a right and wrong
in human actions. And it is also true
though perhaps not quite as perceptible
that moral action according TO that