Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-22
HIGHER EDUCATION.
New Departure Along the Line of
University Extension.

New Departure Along the Line of
University Extension.
New York Herald.
Manhattan Callege, which is under
the management of Catholic religious
order, is setting a good example to all
other colleges, lay or sectarlan.
1t has secured the services of a num-
Der of DISCOVERIES, inventors and sci
entists, such as Zalinsky, Pupin, J. p.
Holland, etc., to give lectures on the
branches of knowledge with which their
names are associated. The members of
the freshman class of the college are
obliged to attend the full course, and
admittance is granted to outsiders for
small price.
This, 1t will be seen, is on the line of
the university extension movement,
from which it differs mainly in the fact
that it is run Independently of the State
or Of any other educational institution.
Nevertheless it uses the same method
that immortalized in the apologize of
Mohammed and the mountain. 1t
brings the college to the people when
the people cannot go to the college.
Now, as it happens, majority of the
people cannot go to college. A major
ity of that majority consists of the
strenuous classes who carry on the &C
tive business Of life.
Hence, regular collegiate education is
limited to almost a single class. and
that a class which needs least to be
brought to intelligence and power.
It is of no small importance to the
country that the strenuous majority
should be brought into vivifying contact
with the latest result Of human thought
and achievement.
The American ideal is not to estab
li.h loneliness for the few but manhood
for the many Fully rounded manhood
is achieved only through education.
Multitudes. however, are tied to daily
toll Only in the evenings have they
any time to devote to mental improve
ment 1t is OF essential Importance
that even the poorest citizens should
receive turing the leisure they can
spare from the work of their lives an
education as liberal and as systematic
as that which is enjoyed by their more
fortunate fellows in the universities.
The aristocracy Of intellect is as OPP
pressive to the mental aspirations Of the
lowly as the aristocracy Of wealth is to
the social aspirations Of the poor.
Nearly quarter century ago the rec
IGNITION Of this truth prompted the
movement in favor of university extern
sion in England. There the movement
has met with signal success. 1t has
stimulated intellectual appetite. II has
established in over three hundred towns
little garrisons Of cultivated people anx-
ious to organize a more thorough sys-
tenn OF advanced instruction under the
aegis Of the great universities Before
another quarter century has passed it
may be expected that England will be
covered with university extension col
lsgee, manned by tinerent teachers and
governed by local authorities acting In
co-operarfoa With the ra.ionA univers-
tiles.
In this country the hrst serious move
nent IN this line was made In 1880 by
the University OF Pennsylvania In the
same year the State Of New York allot-
ted ten thousand dollars, to be expended
under the direction Of the regents of the
University Of the State OF New York as
supervising body. operating through
all other institutions Of learning. to en-
courage and promote the higher educa-
ton The work has spread into all
other parts Of the country. But no