Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-13

that are bestowed In the freedom of the
state institutions. These colleges are
eager to deny that they are sectarianj
in spirit, or even denominational to any
appreciable extent In administration.
Creedal tests are not applied in the Sc.
lection OF professors and occasionally
men known not to be admirers of
Christianity are tolerated on their
of character and scholarship.
Proportionately more of the alumni
of the church schools are found in the
holy ministry. as will be natural where
paternal influence has destined youth
for the ministry and selected the col
lege with that in view. The proportions
ate decrease of alumni entering the
| ministry in recent years may or may
not be significant on account of the
emphasis OF the need Of Christian men
In all walks of life. The recognized
leadership of the alumni in these coll
leges in church and state bears wit
ness to the scientific advance and
maintenance of manliness in these
seats of learning.
The state institutions originally
copied the curricula of the olderSchurch
institutions. including the specifically
religious studies. More speedily than
their elder sisters they ceased to re-
lquire these studies, but for the most
part they have not ceased to maintain
them or in the most modern times to
offer electives pertaining even to Bib
| lical literature, languages and history.
4 The character as we'll as the scholar
| ship Of the faculties has been pre-eni-
nent, and with occasional exceptions,
lit has turned out that members of the
faculties were men Of religious life an
church membership.
Has 1t not been made clear that the
| Interests Of the churches and the state
are not divergent but concordant in
Education? Education is for humanity.
1 The higher or collegiate education, the
highest of university education. neces-
sarily transcend sectarian, national
and sex distinctions. Who can proph-
Iesy as to the possibilities of the Iowa
Isisterhood of colleges and their attend
ant university brother? Their POSSIBLE
lities are beyond those OF any attempted
formal organization: they are as great
as the capacities of our youth, the pros
poets of our nationality, the faith OF
our religion, and the illimitableness oil
human life.
Conceive as I cannot. amidst the
\ sturdiness of American character, the
inheritance of the best institutions of
1.-The ages and of the highest religion.
that political, industrial and social
revolutions come The American col-
lege will survive. The college over
Thrown in the French revolution has
been revived in France and is a sign5of
| hope. out of the national humiliation
of Prussia rose the university giving a
4 greater glory to the new German en-
pire than the sheen of its arms. Bet
ter than the conception of revolutions
| is that of evolution under the leader
ship5of the men bred in the American
college under the leadership of men
bred in the American college and uni
lversity.
The original young man to whom
4 Horace Greely gave the advice Go
west. young man. was Mr.. Grinnell.
\ Grinnell. associated with collegian
1 from old Dartmoutt-Gov Grimes
became one of the founders of col-
Ilege and commonwealth. Today another
son Of old Dartmouth who has in
wrought his own life into the college
and state in the person of President
Gates. heeds the advice to ..go west,
AS we with sincere regret for the part
i ing bid him godspeed, let us be thank
'ful that his life is yet ours. Let the