Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-13
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stone. This building with its extensive
lgrounds is grant to the state univer-
Isity This institution is well provided
with competent professors; the number
LOT students is at present $50. Besides
lthese infant institutions strong in re-
sources and promise there is a female
collegiate institution. AT Fairfield, JEFF
ferson county, is a branch of the state
university, and female seminary both
doing WE'LL
While we may smile at the naive
statement that the Institutions were
strong in promises. and at the quaint
pheasant provision of a female seminary
in the vicinage, we are proud of the as
pirations OF the pioneers, and are thank
full for the accomplishments of their
successors. Their principles We're es-
sentially sound, and we have yet to at
.ltain some OF their ideals.
Next to New England, these midlands
of the United States have become the
home of colleges. More free from the
traditions Of the colleges Of old Eng
land, ours in many respects have been
more progressive than the colleges OF
New England. Confessedly, the state
institutions We're colleges of the people
by the people, for the people. The prl-
'lsVate and church schools rejoicing in the
name Of volunteer have been scarcely
.lless peoples colleges. Dean Hutchins of
4 michigan, an ardent devotee of state
institutions, is vet III justice obliged to
Isay: My observation has led me to the
l3corclusion that not only the people gem
lserally but university graduates aa well
too often lose sight of the large public
Iduttes that rest upon our educational
The universtyis too often
Thought of as founded and supported
lsimply for the. education of those who
t'are so fortunate as to enjoy its priNil-
eyes. L need not suggest that the mis-
i stake liz a grave one. The immediate OBJ
lject OF the school and the university is
Undoubtedly the training of those who
are in attendance, but above and be-
\ You'd all this infinitely greater in im-
portance Is the influence upon the en-
4 tire commonwealth that comes from a
Iwell-ordered educational system. Upon
lno other theory than that they are for.
1.-THE public good can the public school
land universities of the great northwest
be consistently maintained. Indeed.
their existence and liberal support has
4 sbecome a national necessity. But the
H idea has a wider range. The idea of the
4 ultimate good to humanity and to the
Estate tf1at.stWll flow from 1t. is I'M
i dcubtedly the inspiration Of every en-
i 3doWment. In this large and comprehen-
4 sive sense, every school in this broad
Hand IS the peoples school. every uni
sversity the peoples university, and If
the ultimate object of all education be
4 the public good, every man and every
Il Woman.who has enjoyed the advantages
of liberal culture owes duty TO the
people and to the state
IDEAL COLLEGES PERMANENT.
ConcedinG the promising possibilities
IRON history for the future of the coll
.lslegess some one objects that education-
4 al. industrial, social and religious con-
Editions are so changing that we can not
|argue from the pa ST to the future
II may be replied thattke possibilities
depend not primarily upon conditions
4 thai can only modify, but upon ideals
4 The ideal OF a college as distinguished
4 from a university has q permanency
i universities will not swallow up the
4 colleges. Genuine colleges do not need
4 to expand into universities to be as
sured of permanently, and so may the
name college In its way be equal to
4 that of university. Mark Hopkins de-
4 fined the ideal of what college ought
/ to be:
4 That idealsis of an institution where
a young man, during the critical period
Ioftranstioll from boyhood to manhood.
and even LATER, may have an opportuni-
ity to do for himself the best that he can
lido and also one that shall do for every
jlisuch young man the best that can be
4 done for him. a sound body, disci-
Iplined mind, a liberal education. right
Icharacter this ought to be the result
|iof four years course In college. As
an institution designed to give these.
i just these and nothing more, the Amer
i ican college Is the growth of American
4 soil and ought to be maintained These
lit Will give II the young men are dis
lposed to do for themselves the best they
can do. ana If the college have the
4 means to do and will do the best that
can be done for them" u
4 CONFEDERATION OF COLLEGES.
Among the possibilities of Iowa's coli
leges and their state university is one
4 which Iowa College as a time honored
leader may help TO fruition. Surely
the well-known loyalty Of the speaker
/ to the college idea will prevent him
4 from being misunderstood or in any
lsense appearing as pleader for the
university o. anything but the common
1 good In what he is about to say.
The confederation OF the colleges with
4 one another and With the university is
a great educational movement well UNI
/ der way. Already the college section Of
the State Teachers Association forms a
practical college union TO maintain the
intellectual standing OF the colleges and
to ally then, to the common university
principle in the professional and gradu-
ate schools. In its newest form the
state university must be the servant of
4 the private as we'll as the public
schools. All the citizens are taxed for
1t and have the right to command it.
The church college as Well as the high
school Will be glad to find their COM
4 plement In the state university. Thither
their students vii! 80 FOR the advanced
work OF the professional Aad graduate
schools Inter-cotle.::;aa athletics, ora
tory and debates nrove mat the stu
dents are as ready as l.eir professors
4 for educational Federation. 1t only re-
mains to develop What va nave and to
include all Iowa's educational. semi-.
I5educational, philanthrGpical and peno-
logical institutions for mutual instruc-
ton and laboratory purposes.
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.
The poasibilities presented VIII seem