Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-18

~. Walker Outlines Features Of Tie Proposed
Cosmopolitan University.

dIeWS will take charge of the projected
university on Sept. l and it's work will
be formally begun on Oct l. He will
also describe what is intended to be
accomplished.
OF the undertaking on it's pecuniary
side, Mr.. Walker, proprietor and puo-
Usher of the Cosmopolitan, will say:
a feature of the new university will be
that it entails no payment of fees or any
kind upon the part of it's students. The
services rendered will be free, and no
charges will be made, directly or indi-
rectly, the Cosmopolitan Magazine hav-
ing undertaken to provide for the neces-
sary expenses until such time as men
and women shall recognize the import
ance of the work to be done and come to
the aid of the university with financial
support calculated to enlarge its powers
for good.
conversation, has been an idea Of
mine for number of years, as one re-
suit of the interest in and thought on
education which have long engaged me-.
l think it is the greatest and most
beneficent educational enterprise ever
conceived and brought to realization.
1t could not be undertaken, however.
without having at it's head man of
large ability and position. The men
whom l had in mind above all Others
were President Andrews of Brown
University, President Gilman of Johns
Hopkins, and President Harper OF tine
Chicago University. But they all
seemed inaccessible. Since then
he CDR. Andrews) has severed his con-
noction with Brown University and has
definitely accepted the presidency Of
the Cosmopolitan University. He has
already begun work by appointing the
following as members of the advisory
board of 10: Spencer Trask, the we'll
known. banker of New York; President
McAllister of the Drexel Institute. Phil
adelphia Albert Shaw, American ed
itor of the Review of Reviews; Gen.
Samuel Thomas, the prominent rail-
road man, and George F. Seward, pres
ident of the Fidelity and Casually
Company of New York.
Il shold think that the foregoing
names ought to dispose effectually of
the inference so freely drawn and ex-
pressed, that the Cosmopolitan Univer-
sity was to be a free silver movement.
The notion is perfectly absurd. Poll
tics does not enter into it at all.
THE methodOf the university, so far
as now worked out. will be as follows:
A student will forward to the univer-
sity his name and address, with in
formation as to his previous courses
of study, his occupation in life, the
purpose for which education is sought.
and the studies which the applicant de-
sires to pursue-absolutely the only
condition imposed being that the appli
cant shall pledge himself to a given
number of hours of study. Each such
statement will go to DR.. Andrews. and
will receive his personal and careful
course of study which he deems the
best possible for the applicant in the
light of the information conveyed. He
will then despatch his own diagnosis
if the applicants case and prescription
therefor to the most eminent expert on
the particular study with whom he is
acquainted. This expert will revise the
course and the accompanying instruc-
tons, and will then carefully go all
over it again, after which it will be
sent to the applicant. The university
will then continue at the service of the
student for such additional instruction
and guidance as he may require, and
he may at any time be examined on
the studies he has pursued, if he thinks
himself prepared. 1 wish to emphasize
the fact that DR.. Andrews will give his
personal attention to each applicant
at least, until the courses have been so
thoroughly worked out that they can
be readily applied to recurrent similar
cases.
$50 far as we have determined, there
will be no permanent staff other than
the experts who will be called upon to
cooperate with DR.. Andrews. In time
these experts may come to be regarded
as permanent members of a faculty,
and published as such. All expenses
will for the present be borne by the
Cosmopolitan magazine, and will con-
sist of the salary of President Andrews.
the compensation of his experts, and
the clerical labor involved in carrying
on an extensive correspondence. I esti-
mate that the cost of postage alone will
be $4,000 the first year. The outlay will
undoubtedly be large. but the Cosmo-
politan university will add to the dig
nifty and Importance and prestige of the
Cosmopolitan magazine, and by this
i
for my expenditure. What really de-
sire is that people should study and de-
velop themselves; but, along with our
altruistic impulses and efforts should
always go an attention to the practical
side; else we shall fail to accomplish
the good we seek.
The university has already received
the warmest welcome from the people.
The large number of 140O entries or en-
rolments have already been received
about half as many in 16 days as the
total of Chautauqua during all the
years of it's existence. The applicants
are very nice class of people-mins-
tiers of the gospel, professional men,
teachers, and earnest people engaged
in humber walks of life, but ambitious
to improve their conditions and pros
poets. They write, think, from every
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