Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-10

more needs than that which Oxford !
stands forts sober. calm, philosophic |
temper, its exaltation of the hui /
manitieS, its insiStence upon the SUI |
preme value OF literature. history and |
ethics in the training OF the young |
men who are TO govern the world. The !
only measure now lacking TO cnmliete |
the circuit of what Mr.. Rhodes calls |
educational ties" is for soE1e % Of
our mijlionaires to endOw 100, 900
scholarships for English stldeCis in
| Harvard Yale, or Columbia Mat
! thew H. Buckham, president of the
, University of Vermont.
Help the Individuals
Bangor, Me. 1t is one of the char
acteristics of the twentieth century
. that men Of vast fortunes are devoting
so much of their wealth TO the cause
| of education It is the most unique
/ and possibly the most useful method
! TO help individuals to the best educa-
! ton in the great institutions already
/ established rather than to establish
! new ones 1t is a development of Mr..
/ Carnegie's idea in helping Scotch
/ students, but is one step in advance,
as it is TO help students of several ma
! tions If Mr.. Rhodes Cape to Cairo
j railway should ever be built it would
would be no more enduring monument
/ to his great labor than the gift to edu-
cation-George Emory Fellows, presi-
dent of University of Maine
Good for Oxford
| Amherst Mass. To send a large
delegation of American youth to Ok
| ford will wake up the old university
and be of advantage to the young
men. | foresee difficulty, however, in
selecting two men each year from
I Massachusetts. How car the scholar
ship. athletic ability, morality, and
| leadership of an Amherst man, for in
stance, be determined in comparison
with the same qualities Of Harvard
or a Williams man? But learned men
are a brotherhood and if the college
bred men of England, America. and
! Germany unite for peace the world
must be benefited.-George Harris,
president Of Amherst College.
| Will Accomplish Much.
/ Lafayette, Ind. Rhodes bequest,
! applied in its fullest scope, will ac-
| complish much in promoting among
! our people an intelligent appreciation
of English institutions. The infor-
! nation at hand does not warrant sug-
gestiOns as to the method of it's appli-
| cation.-W. E. Stone, president of
i Purdue university.
Awaits Details.
Hanover, n. HI approve in the
main the qualifications of candidates
think the value of the fellowships
puts social above educational stand
ards. | await details to see if the
scheme OF appointment through the
+ states is practicable, according to the
tests required | believe that educa-
ton must hold to broader aims than
the consolidation of the AngloSaxon
race.-William J. Tucker, president
Of Dartmouth College.
Reciprocity.
New York, April 5.-That Americans
should obtain best advanced inStruc-
ton offered by Britain and Britons the |
best offered by America would be the |
highest form of reciprocity Cecil |
Rhodes bequest should promote such |
university reciprocity. I should pre-
fey limiting scholarships TO advanced |
students. The conditions prescribed |
should excite little objection | re-
i0ice over the gift-Henry Mitchell |
Maccracken chancellor New York |
university.
Tribute to Education
Sewanee, Tenn.,-The plan is a |
credit to the brain and heart of Cecil
modes and tribute to the power and
.~tluence of university training. 1t
is destined to play it's part in social
evolution by means of the intelligent
cooper alton of the best material in the
English race and to produce results of
which the world thus far has only
dreamed. The graduation of qualify
ing requisites shows clear and sound
jpdgment.-B. L. Virgins, president
OF the University of the South.
Worthy Miilennial Plan.
Iowa City, lathe plan is a mil
lenial idea, worthy of the twentieth
century. More than hundred years
Washington's will, making a bequest
for national university at Washing
ton, was a precursor Of the cOsmOpoli-
ten university provisions Of this true
imperialists will. Tennyson sang Of
The Parliament of Man, the Federation
OF the world Rhodes raises out of
the political dream a greater and more
Immediately practical spiritual fedora
ton of the world through the com
mon republic of letters. His provi-
Sions are along the lines laid down by !
Oxford when she began her work OF .
providing for the federation of col |
leges in the colonies and depend. ,
encieS.
The great gifts of Carnegie to the /
Scotch university and Carnegie institu- !
ton at Washington are complemented 7
in a,plan of worldwide scope. It is a s
mighty idea and will bear a rich fruit I
age, one that we cannot now see in the +
industrial, and politi- I
cal realms. f
AS to the application of the will in t
England, we can trust Oxford to ad- Y
just herself to the gift and to make t
disturbance arrangements for I
the work contemplated and for the q
9 deouato fuIfi11,nopt of pbo1oo, r-;cboc .