Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-13
EDUCATION FOR ALL.
National capitsl City of Colleges
and Universities.
Titans of Every Age Were Men of
Humble PRrentaEe Who Secured
Their Education by AppIi-
catioa and seIx-DeniaI.
Lspeeial washlngton Letter.1


HE close of the college year is
called commencement, be-
cause the young people who.
are given degrees are supposed to
have completed educations, and be
ready in every sense for the ''com-
mencement' of their careers in con-
tact with the world.
The national capital is becoming
more and more an educational cen
ter. Colleges have been here from
the early days of the past century,
and now we have prosperous univer-
stiles. There are many busy people
who do not understand the differ
ence between a college and univer-
sity, but well-informed people know
that each university is composed of a
number of colleges. The college
bears the same relation to a univer-
sity that king bears to an emperor.
An empire comprises kingdoms, and
a university comprises colleges.
It is well known that George Wash
ington advocated the establishment
of a national university in the ma
| tional capital; and his desire is grad
ually being developed. But the ma
tional university is yet only in en-
bryo. It will not be perfected until
| the congress definitely acts upon the
proposition which number of good
men have been projecting for more
! than a quarter of century, out of
| their own individual means.
! The secretary of agriculture says
that the ideal national university
would be term of service in the
executive departments for young
men who have been graduated from
secular OF religious colleges and uni
versities: term of service in which
they would learn all about the fed
eral government, as government
clerks, with opportunities for attend
| ing the congressional debates, the
use of the congressional library and
| contact with the statesmen from all
! of the states.
The idea of the secretary, as
| CLEANED from many conversations, is
that poor young men may thus have
opportunity to earn their bread and
butter by working in the government
departments, while they also earn
! their educations by devoting their
: extra time in taking advantage of
their environments. To the writer
this seems impractical bic, because a
| national university of that character
could furnish no diploma, no insignia
to demonstrate the course of study.
1t would be a good thing for the
poor young men who constitute the
majority of students, and would
greatly enhance their worth to them
selves, to- the republic and to the
world; but it would be difficult to
systematic such a comprehensive
course of studies.
In this city, as in all educational
centers, it is safe to say that the
number of students who support
themselves in part, or in fact wholly
is constantly increasing. Although
not possessed of exact statistics as
to the number of men who support
themselves wholly or in part wheI
going through college, it is known tt
be much larger than the outsider
who gets only a superficial view o.
matters would believe.
Not only this, but the percentage
of poor young men increases as wei
as does the number. Perhaps oul
colleges have a certain extent NOR,
of the poor young men than othel
colleges. OF course, there is a large
number of very wealthy ones, NOR,
> of them in every entering class. bu
that is accounted for merely by TIT