The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-02
ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS
TYPICAL WESTERN COLLEGE
New England says a Kind Word For
Wichita.

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Boston Advertiser:
Whenever the story OF the Winning
Of the West Of which Theodore Roose-
valt. the Rough Rider, has written IN
Characters ucaIly breezy volume, snail
come to be told in larger fuiiness and
from the coigne Of vantage OF a clearer
outlook than Is yet possible, very
prominent part Of the thr14ling story
will deal with the planting and nurturtng
Of colleges. It will De a story to stir all
the red blood that is in readers veins,
and all the blue blood, TOO, that is worth
stirring 1t Will be a story as romantic.
as full of adventure, OF haEoreadth es-
capes, as luminous with heroisn. as Is
any tale that can be told OF encounters
with wild Indians on the plains. of escapes
from prairie fires. and all the conflicts
and trials of pioneer life
There was received at this ONCE some
time go a telegram from Wichita Kan
sas announcing that Paramount Col
lege had Just completed the task of rails
ing $4,000 for extinguishing all indebted
ness. College now in good shape 1or
growth and large usefulness ~ J.
Morrison. President This dispatch came
at the height OF the college commence
ment season throughout the country.
News items relating to institutions OF
learning were pouring into every principal
newspaper office by day and by nght-
Announcements of benefacGonS amount
ing in some instances to hundreds of
thousands of dollars were matters of
(
Measured by the sum Of money named,
Fairmount's 10000 was but a flea bite.
Measured, however, byt its true test by
its significance in relation TO liberal learn
ing in one of the most fertile and strate-
gic regions of the great west, 1t mea nj
something worthy to be compared with
vastly greater gifts to institutions whose
future was already secured and to whose
endowments and equipments the addition
now and then of a few hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. more OF less, is some
what in the nature Of piling Pelion upon
OsSa.
This typical western college is only
about three years old, or reckoning from
its beginning as an academy, six years
old. 1t Is situated in city with a pop
ulation of 21,0O0 people. The city has
eleven railway lines radiating into all
parts of the southwest. 1t is the COM
mercial, industria and educational center
of a vast area containing already 100000
people This is the only college in sue
cessful operation that maintains what we
IN New England regard as the collegiate
standard Of scholarship. Its eight pro-
fessers were trained at Harvard, Dart
mouth. Brown, Cornell, Oliyet, Wesleyan,
Heidelberg and Letpsic
''Weu to get this institution on its feet
there was created at the outset bonded
debt Of $4,000. During the past year
Paramount has had the experience of
which Oberlin used to complain, more
students than money The extremely
modest salaSies of the eight professors
and the seven instructors remained unpaid
to the degree that at the close Of the col
! lege year 81 600 was due them. The rules
Of the American Educational society with
headquarters in Soston, a large part of
whose work consAts in aiding struggling
western colleges, forbid it giving money
to them that are in debt
| ldent Morrison formed a plan of cam
paign. Half the bonds were held by one
Massachusetts, man, who took them as a
kind of investment in the Bank OF
Heaven. The other half were held in
Hartford The president induced the
Massachusetts, bondholder to agree to
surrender his holdings free of charge
on condition that all the Indebtedness OF
the college be wiped out by specified
day IN June of this year. The Hartford
bondholders agreed on the same condi-
tions to accept 80 per cent. The profes-
sors and teachers on the same conditions
made voluntary sacrifice of Is per cent
of their claims. The president then got
pledges to the amount of $4,000 in Hart
ford and got other pledges east and west
and got postponement of a fortnight In
the fateful day, which came so near be-
ing the fatal day; and so at length, In the
very end of June, came that telegram.
Anybody who imagines that this sort
of thing is unprecedented doesn't know
much about the winning of the west fol
the higher life. the life of the mind and
of the spirit; and he who imagines that g
typical western college is something II
be sneered at doesn't know any thing q
all about IT. Senator Hoar of Massachu,
sets and Edward Everett Hale OF th'
United States and W T. Harris. naJiona
commissioner of educa ton. are three
iamong many times three men who know
what a college is, and what this one is
who bear written testimony to their ap
probation of it,
There ara other such colleges. They
have histories. different in detail but ont
and all. colleges that have been plantc<
by New England men and women in tn
great west, with New England standards
and faith and love and hope such as wen
aforetime into the planting Of Harvar'
and Yale and their successors on thi
eastern soil. are worth all they cost. an
are worthy of all. and more than all. II
generous gifts which they receive IN thei
time OF supreme need
The Rev. W. r. Costley OF stockbridge
Ca. while attending TO his pastoral dutie
al Fleetwood. that state. vas attacked b!
cholera n1orbus. He says: BY chance
happened % get hold OF & bottle Of Cham
berlasn's Collie. Chole-a and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and 7 think it was the means o
saving my life It relieved ne a. once.
For sale by druggists.
cITYIN BRIEF.