The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-11

nature celebrates her highest triumph,
and which underlies all the hqmanties.
Our greatest and most pressing need,
according to the policy first formulated
Of STRENGTHENING the departments all
ready established before founding new
ones, is to enlarge the biology TO an
Independent position with due provis-
ion for botany and the related subject
of paleontology.
The foundations of a building for
this group of studies is already laid on
the grounds. and its completion with
an endowment of $150,000 or 5000, 600
with what we now have would give US
strong department able to compete
successfully with the best; perhaps we
may sometime dedicate such building
and department to the name of some
honored philosophical citizen of Wor
cester.
Physics, like biology, now represent
ed by a single able and promising man,
needs enlargement to the same degree
with an annex department of astron-
ony and astrophysics, and for the same
sum could, in addition to what we now
have, be put upon q creditable footing
The chemical building admirably plan
ned after careful studies of all the best
in Europe and ,Well-equipped. especial
ly for organic work, has no endowment
and needs for its full development the
income of at least a quarter Of a mil
lion dollars.
Anthropology, SO greatly needed in
this land, but so lacking in academic
installation and tradition here, is al
ready precious germ with one wor-
thy representative, has been cherished
from the first with US, and it, too
needs enlargement and independence.
If we pass over into the humanities,
there are, of course, the two great
groups of philology and literature, an
Gent and modern, and a historical
group eliminating in political econ
omy, sociology and a grand department
or international law, nowhere adequate
ly represented in this country and for
the establishment of which somewhere
Senator Hoar, acting president of the
board Of trustees, the first citizen OF
Massachusetts, competent today to fill
any one of four professional chairs in
any university, in learning, experience.
character and position more nearly the
American Gladstone than any other
has been so distinguished an advocate
Education, now coming to be the lar
gest philosophy of life and the natural
field of applied psychology, needs a
more adequate representation, and with
a quarter of million of dollars for an
ideal university school for children, we
would almost guarantee in five years tC
make this place. an educational Mecca
by short circuit methods now well de-
monstrated but nowhere embodied
which would greatly increase the eff
cacy and reduce the expense and ease
the labor of education in this country.
Satisfied, yes, proud, as we are today
to submit to Worcester, to sister insti-
tutions and the country the records OF
our work when compared with on,
means, we have lived and even now
live and walk, let us confess it. to q
great extent in faith and hope, looking
confidently to a future larger than our
past has been, with steadfast and i'm.
movable conviction that our cause is
the very highest of all the causes OF
humanity but ready even ourselves ii
need be to labor on yet longer in the
captivity of Strengthened resources be.
ms fully persuaded that our redeelnel
liveth and that in due time he shall ap-
pear.