The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-03
ANDREWS TRIUMPHS.
viii Preside Over a University Es-
tablished Expressly for Him.


Providence, r. l., Aug. 3.-President
E. Benjamin Andrews, whose resigna-
ton as the head of the Brown univer-
sity cause profound sensation last
week, has accepted the presidency of a
new university
The institution will be a popular col
lege, at first something after the Chau-
tauquan movement and later large
educational institution is to be devel-
oped. The position as president was
rendered to President Andrews within
the past five weeks by the founder of
the new college, John Brisben Walker,
a journalist of note and reputed mil
Hona1re. Mr. Walker is better known
ABOUT New York, where he publishes
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, than he is
in New England and the east. He is a
prominent figure in certain theories of
education and believes in the advance
ment OF his ideas. In the last presi-
DENTAL campaign Mr.. Walker was on
the silver side of the contest, and hand
sOmely entertained William J. Bryan at
his place on the Hudson. In many of
their ideas and opinions upon leading
political and financial questions Presi-
dent Andrews and Mr.. Walker are said
to agree.
Plans and arrangements regarding
the new university have been ex-
changed between the two educators and
they have fully agreed upon all of them
and the movement is promised finan-
cial support that will tend to make it
a success. At any rate. the induce
ment is satisfactory to President An
drews, and he will retire from Brown
in September and at once take up the
duties as president of the new uniVer-
sity.
THE new college," said President An
drews, will be big affair, with the
view to the widespread dissemination
of education.
1T Will be a popular institution, de-
signed upon new ideas, and the plan
will be to meet the problems that come
constantly before the people, and which
are to be solved under the prevailing
conditions of the time in which such
questions arise"
Under President Andrews there will
be an advisory board of ten men, chos-
en- from the brightest and rarest minds
in the whole country. The greatest pur-
pose of the new university will be to
reach the masses who have not the
means to secure entrance to the now
existing universities of the country.
The founder of the college has been
/. apprised of the decision of President
Andrews to accept the offer, and the
gentlemen are to have another meeting
very soon. The prospectus of the new
university has just been issued, and in
it is this announcement:
1.-The course of studies will be worked
out with reference to the real needs of
men and women in the various walks
of life, and will be designed not only
to produce broader minds, more cult
waited intellectS and to give greater fit
ness IOf special IlneS OIL work, out 10
make better citizens, better neighbors
and give a happier, higher type of man
and wOmanhOOd.
'.AlI instruction blanks, examination
papers, officials circulars, etc, will be
furnished free. There will be no charge
of any kind made to the student, all ex-
penses being borne for the present by
the college. No conditions except the
pledge of a given number of hours
study will attach to the entrance of
students upon the rolls of the univer-
sity. The university work will be form
ally opened in September. Meanwhile
students desiring TO enter upon a
course will forward to the university
the following information
Name and address previous courses
of study, occupation in life, purpose for
which education is sought, duties which
the applicant desires to pursue "
President Andrews referred to the sill
yer issue, and he spoke of men who
ought to be in line with him in stand
ing by their cOlors. In conclusion he
said too many men who believed in sill
YER quailed in that great fight. He
liked men who stood up in a battle and
declared their belief.