Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-05-25
FOR i NATIONAL INIVER-
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ETFOEfr BENG MADE To CAETY
OUT C.EOEGE WASHINGTON
SPLEEnG IDEA, THE Plan
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Comparatively few people prob
ably are aware of the amount OF
work that has been done toward
realizing George Washington
idea OF = great national university
Of the United States. For wears
he talked and wrote about it, and
at his death bcqueathed S25 .GG0 rs
first endowment but in spite OF
the recognized need OF such an in
stitution. more than Il century has
gone 10y without seeing il estab-
lished. Since Washigton's tire
the plan has had the endorsement
OF many ether presidents. while ii
has been the dream OF jhe most
eminent scholars and scientists for
years.
Anon" he objects which are
mentioned ~ those which a true
university shorld = rcGmplish are ::
to provide post graduate instruct
ions in al departments OF learning (:
to represent at all times the sum of
human knowledge 10 lead in the
deN eiOPcueit of new professions ::
TO lead the world in ORIGINAL re-
search aud investigation, and to
constitute an inpreSna6le bulwari,
oftrGth and freedom.
The need ot great institution
FOR purely post graduate work,
which thiSwGu!d he, will be under
stood when it is remembered that
something like four thousand
Americans - abroad t. obtain at
foreign institutions what they can
not find 1t home.
In order 20 further the work =
national university committee Of
one hundred has been appointed,
and local "George Washington
Memorial Committees are being
formed.
Among the th-ee hundred pro
.iectors OF the establishment of this
University we find The name of a
former resident of ,juniata county,
President Holmes Dysinser, ID. ID,
of Car,iiaGe College, Illinois.
The FIRST aiiu Is - have every
club. organization association
school ana college, make if possi-
bic, one programme during the
winter for the thC conside GRAFTON of
the George Washington memorial
and the bequest Of v aShingtor for
a university OF the United States.
To the end that they may lie IN
formed and ready 10 keep next 22uG
of February as an offering day,
when all over the land wave O.
thought and spirit of loyalt
may be rebaptiscd into patriot
ism, and the neglected trust made
an actual living influence, Il fund
stored in the Amarican Trust and
Security bank. for building
whose cornes stone shall be laid on
the hundreth anniversary, Janu-
airy iSA"
What We must and viii have
ultimately Is the University of the
United States, political, non
sectarian. Smithsonian, for exam
pie. broad in scope, reaching
out to all lands for the ablest
minds and most scientific appli-
ances with which to teach and
illuminate modern science i'll its
highest form.
There are nineteen acres Of
ground near Lafayette square,
Washington, ID. C., now owned by
the government and held for the
purpose Of q University of the
United States.
\ local committee has been
formed for Juniata county with
Miss Ida u. Barton as chairman
and Mrs. T. Y. Irwin as secretary
and treasurer, other members of
of committees are Mrs. \. Y. RAY
en-, Mrs. ). b. Cramer, Miss Mary
Campbell, Miss May Louden, and
Miss Mary \. Laird.