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cures soIatio Rheumatism.

Mrs. A. z. Simpson, 5O9 Craig St,
Knoxville. Tenn, writes June 10, 1899:
81 have been trying the baths of Hot
Springs, Ark, for sciatic rheumatism
but | get more relief from Ballard's
Snow Liniment than any medicine or
anything | have tried. Enclosed find
postomce order for 81. Send me a
large bottle by Southern express"
Sold by w. b. Frame.
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The Best Prescription for Malaria.
Chills and fever is bottle Of Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. 1t is simply iron
and quinine in a tasteless form. No
cure-nc pay. Price 25c.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-03-29
Chief Of Police.

l hereby announce myself a candi-
date for reelection for the office OF
Chief Of Police of the city Of Ardmore
at the April election.
d. E. BOOKER
1 hereby announce myself a canul-
date for the office of Chief of Police
for the city of Ardmore at the April
election. A. S. PULLIAM.
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l hereby announce myself a candi
date for reelection to the Office OF
mayor Of the city Of Ardmore at the
coming April election.
r. W. DICK.
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7. N. ROBNETT.

There are occasional moments in
every old bachelors life when he is
glad he never married.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-03-29

A cynic is a man who laughs at the
world with tears in his eyes.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The fee for notices under this head
is $3.50. payable strictly In advance.
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Some men do not hesitate to break
a promise because it is so easy to
make another.
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JAMES II. MA1HERs.

| IhereDy announce myself as a ca dl
date for the Office Of city attorne TOR
the city OF Ardmore at the election =
April. CASWELL BENNETT.
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Buy today from our fishing tackle
before the rush is on and the assort-
ment broken.
WILLIAMS. CORHN & co.
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For City Attorney.

1 hereby announce myself a canei
date for reelection to the office Of
city attorney for the city OF Ardmore
at the April election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09

has spared no efforts or money TO make
the buildings architectura1y as fine as
possible, California's university is one
of the most powerful in the land. Like
its friendly rival at Palo Alto. the Le-
land Stanford, Jr. university. the state
institution is for the coeduca ton Of the
sexes. The many millions of dollars
that in recent years have gone into both
these universities may we'll have at
tracted the amazed attention of the
world
The Pacific slope is strong in its uni-
versitfes. comprising notably the two in
California and those OF its sister states
to the north. The University of Ore
gon. with its 81 instructors and $50 stu
dents. was organized in 1872 while that
of Washington is somewhat older. The
University of Washington, located AT
Seattle. is well called the elimination OF
the states system Of public schools. It
originated in the granting by congress
in 1851 of two townships OF land for the
establishment of a university. It was
opened in 1862 and seven years ago was
transferred TO its present picturesque
location, with a campus of $50 acres.
between Lakes Union and Washington
In 1893 the state gave the university an
endowment of 100. 600 acres of land and
has always been generous in providing
for an institution that has given it an
enviable reputation There are IS in
structors at the University of Washing
ton, and the average number of stu
dents is about 700.
From the foregoing it viii be seen
that not only is there an American uni
versity, but there is truly a continental
chain Of universities extending from
ocean to ocean Each institution is iso-
late and self centered. yet there is an
interdependence in the system that
makes for the highest in human en-
deavor- The American university
stands on high plane and if it BE-
true. as an eminent educationist as
serts. that three=fourths of our scien-
tific discoveries originate in the univer-
sites. they viii play a very important
part in the future development of our
country.
CLAIMING A. BARLOW.
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oHIo sTATE UNIvERsITY.

are to qualify them for the particular
vocations to which they are destined
We shall, on the contrary, allow them
uncontrolled choice in the lectures they
shall choose to attend and require
elementary qualification only and suffi-
cient age. Our institution VIII proceed
on the principle of doing all the good it
can without consulting its own pride or
ambition; of letting every one come and
listen to whatever he thinks may i'm
prove the condition of his mind"
Jefferson. as all who have seen the
beautiful buildings of this university
can attest, impressed himself not only
upon the curriculum of the university,
but also upon its architecture 1t is
and always has been under state pat
rOnage. now receiving an annual appro-
priation of $40, 900.
All, or nearly all. the colleges of the
colonial period had been erected on
English models, cast in conservative
molds. and were to that extent restrict
ed in their work. Jefferson's plan was
a differentiation between the simple
college and the university. in favor of
the latter, and while the earlier colleges
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09
)RRISON COLLEGE. KENTUCKY
UNIVERSITY.

the value of $500. 600, productive funds
to the amount of $500, 0O0 100 instruct
ors and 1890 students. The University
of Tennessee was originally chartered
in 1874. having borne its present title
since 1879, and availed itself of the va
rious endowments from the national
lands for the promotion of agriculture
and mechanical arts. Its instructors
number IS and its students $50.
Although not so old as some of it's
sister colleges, the University of Vir-
ginia. located at Charlottesville and
chartered in 1919, may be with reason
called the first to adopt and develop
the university idea as it prevailed in
Europe. for jefferson, its founder and
promoter, says in a letter to a Harvard
graduate:
Il am not fully informed of the prac-
tees at Harvard, but there is one from
which we shall certainly vary, although
it has been copied. believe, by nearly
every college and academy in the Unit
ed States. That is the holding the stu
dents all to one prescribed course OF
reading and disallowing exclusive appli-
cation to those branches only which
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sIBLEY HALL. CORNELL.

colleges and universities in general,
there is an almost unbroken chain
across the continent from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, between the great lakes
and the gulf of Mexico.
1t seems quite probable that in this
country at least the first quarter of the
twentieth century Will be known in his
tory as the educational era" During
the two centuries past there has been
a great sowing of seed. beginning in
New England. New York and Virginia
and extending across the country until
now the entire continent has been prac-
tically won for education. There is no
longer opposition to a college education
per Sc on the ground that it is i'm
practicable and units rather than fits
one for life's vOcations. The educators
themselves anticipated and so far as
possible met those objections. so that
now the ratio of students to the gen
eral population of the country is meas
urably increasing instead of decreasing.
as it was some fifty years ago.
There has been a rigid seeking after
true educational values that shall be
both practical cultural and disciple
nary The tendency now is toward a
departure from the antiquated methods
of the earlier colleges, which them
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UNION COLLEGE. 1895.

selves have been regenerated, and the
student of the university is fitted to
follow out the highest attainment of
human thought He is led toward. if
not into, original investigation, guided
by the ripest intelleets and highest
types of professional mentality. There
have been cordial co-operat ton and fed
Grafton, followed by an amplitude of
endowment, in every part of the United
States until there is now no large sec
ton that cannot claim to possess a
university in its truest sense-in other
words. an institution where nearly all
human knowledge may be co-ordinated
and disseminated and where the stu
dents may be so trained that the
brightest mind of all may perhaps
reach up to heights hitherto unattained.
While it is recognized that there must
be universally in our education, that
all the people must be embraced within
its scope. yet the twentieth century tend
ency is also toward the evolution of the
highest product possible from the va
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA.

body of this institution, which was
opened in 1878, is a board of trustees ap-
pointed by the governor and confirmed
by the senate The original endowment
has been frequently supplemented by
special appropriations. The university
is divided into six colleges.
One of the Oldest state endowed uni
versities is that of Indiana-founded in
1S20-which now has 20 instructors and
more than HOO students The Univer-
sity of Iowa has more than so instruct
ors and 1000 students, being next in al e
to Grinnell, which is the Oldest in the
state
The keystone of the public school sys-
tenn of Missouri is its university found
ed in 1889 at Columbia. near the center
of the state. It's endownents, aggre-
eating more than million dollars. are
held by the state. which pays interest
and makes liberal appropriations.
Buildings and grounds are worth 81, 600.
600: the students number more than
], 900 and the instructors 100.
Both Michigan and Wisconsin have
universities founded more than sixty
years ago and supported by the state.
That OF Michigan situated at Ann Ar
Dor. was established in 1887 and opened
in 1871, congress in 1926 having set
apart two townships for the future
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table universities and have long since
outgrown the ordinary colleges For
the past forty years or more national
and state legislation have co-operated
toward the upbuilding of the state uni
versities, the most vital constituent
part Of the system being the laws pass
ed by congress. initiated by Hon Justin
S. Morrill, in 1858. donating a portion of
the public lands for the endowment Of
a college in each state TO teach such
branches of learning as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts"
The bill passed congress, but was vetoed
by President Buchanan. being finally
enacted July 2. 1862, and approved by
President Lincoln.
One of the most noteworthy institu-
lions founded in accordance with this
law is the Ohio State university, locat-
ed at Columbus, about three miles from
the state capitol in the midst of ample
and beautiful grounds. The governing
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being in excess of $500. 600. It has ss4
teachers and 1000 students
Although organized within eleven
years. the University of Chicago. with
its vast endowments from John D.
Rockefeller of practically a. many mill
lions as the university requires and
with its $500 students, seems destined
to outstrip all other educational insti-
tutions in the state. It is magnificent in
conception and wisely cautious in the
application of the great wealth placed
a its disposal.
Another university of its class near
Chicago. is the great Northwestern at
Evanston. which. with the two just
mentioned, forms a trio of which the
state of Illinois may be justly proud.
Among the universities of relatively
recent years is that of Minnesota, char
tered in 1863 with an endowment con-
sisting of POP. 600 acres of land granted
by the national government or the pro-
ceeds of the sales thereof. with a per
manent fund of over S1000,000 1t has
$50 instructors and 1850 students.
Utah has a university at Salt Lake
City founded in 1850 supported by di-
rect appropriations from the state
treasury. Its 500 students receive in
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ried riches that the previous centuries
have accumulated
1t cannot be positively asserted that
the Oldest or the largest and most rich
" endowed colleges have produced the
greatest results, for sometimes the OBJ
scure and struggling institutions have
contributed most brilliant names to the
galaxy that has given luster to the ma
tons achievements. Perhaps there is
no other body of men that collectively
so we'll illustrates this fact as that
which includes the presidents of the
United States. OF our twenty-five ex-
ecutfves there are nine beginning with
Washington ending with Mckinley.
and including Jackson Van Buren,
Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, johnson and
Cleveland. who were not college grad
yates. Three-John Adams, J. Q. Ad-
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MAIN HALL. UNIVERSITY OF IL
LIMOS.

versity of California University of
Wisconsin. United States Military
icademy and Williams college. Massa-
shusetts. have each more than 1000
graduates on their rolls
College and university graduates in
he United States may now be num-
)ered by the hundred thousand. and ev-
.ry year adds to the aggregate for dur
ng the past thirty years the number
81 college students has increased from
ess than 600 to a little more than LOO
n each million of our adult population.
{ IS estimated that rather more than
Is. 900 college men are turned out" each
year to battle with the world, and,
without reference to the question as to
whether a college education pays" it
very evident that the people of the
United States have freely paid for the
privileges attendant upon their educa-
ional institutions.
In speaking of men" in connection
With education it is understood, of
course that the term is used in its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR-
MA LOOKING SOUTH.

languages and in the liberal arts and
sciences"
Union college, Schenectady, was the
second college incorporated in the state
of New York CFeb. IS. 1850. and its
name was derived from the fact that
several religious denominations coop
Grated in it's organization. Cornell uni
versity. Ithaca, n. Y, owes its origin
to the congressional lard grant from
the national domain, but its existence
and success are due to Hon. Ezra Cor
nell who gave a foundation fund Of
$500 600 and by his careful management
of the land scrip realized several mil
lions for the university, the great work
of which is well known. First opened
in 1868, Cornell has forged rapidly to the
fore and today has $50 instructors and
nearly 1000 students.
Another college that is indebted to
the congressional lands for aid is the
University Of Vermont, which. though
founded in 1871. organized its faculty in
1900, graduated its first class in 1854
and was revfvifed in 1865 by Incorporate
ing with it the state agricultural col
lege and experiment station. 1t has an
income of between $50. 900 and $4,000. So
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TERRITORIAL UNI
NERSITY.

ans and Roosevelt-were Harvard
men; three-Je jefferson, Monroe and Ty-
ler-attended William and Mary; Mad
ison is claimed by Princeton. William
H. Harrison by Hampden-Sydney, Polk
by the University of North Carolina.
Pierce by Bowdoin. Buchanan by Dick
inson, Grant by West Point. Hayes by
Kenyon, Garfield by Williams. Arthur
by Union and Benjamin Harrison by
Miami.
The aims and scope of the colleges
founded prior to the beginning of the
nineteenth century, such as Harvard,
Yale, William and Mary. Princeton.
Washington and Lee. Rutgers Dart
mouth. Brown. Hampden-Sy Sydney Dick
inson. Washington College of Mary
land. Nashville university Western uni
versity of Pittsburg. Franklin and Mar
shall St. Johns, Georgetown univer-
sity, the University of Vermont, Viii
liams, University of Tennessee, Bow
doin, Union. Washington college, Ten
nessee and the University of North Car
DINA, are amply set forth in the orig
inal charter of Columbia university
New York, Oct. 81. 1854 during the reign
of George II, providing for the estab-
fishing of a college for the instruction
and education of youth in the learned
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struetion free. Another free university
is that of Colorado, with 900 students.
1t is situated at Boulder and was found
ed in 1876. It IS literally supported by
legislative appropriation and direct tax
alton.
In order to complete the chain across
the continent, but with no purpose in
view of presenting an exhaustive list Of
even the state endowed universities
mention may be made of the universi-
ties of California, Oregon and Washing
ton The University Of California was
instituted in 1868 and transferred in 1873
to its present beautiful site at Berkeley.
comprising some $50 acres facing the
Golden Gate It has grown rapidly
from a small institution to an all en-
bracing university with 230 instructors
and 1000 students. Finding the college
fettered by its lack of endowments and
wishing to see a larger and stronger in
stitution," says an authority, the
trustees transferred all their property
to the state, which had already accept
ed the congressional provisions for an
agricultural college. and a proposition
TO unite all interests in a university
adequate TO the wants and worthy Of
the name of the state was readily
agreed to-
Having of late years attracted the at
tention of wealthy residents of Califor-
MA. notably OF Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. who
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ance.
The charter of Princeton was granted
in 1746. and. having lived through the
colonial. Revolutionary and national pc
RODS of our country's life. it is today a
full hedged university enrolling more
than 1910 students and with 100 in
structors The University of Pennsyl-
vania, founded as a college in 1740,
claims the honor Of being the first uni
versity erected in the United States and
of containing the oldest medical depart
me1lt It is now one of our largest. also
having an average attendance Of >. 400
students. with PCS instructors.
OF the southern group Of universities
one of the largest is the University of
Georgia. chartered in 1855 and opened in
1901. It has buildings and grounds to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09

culture, mechanic arts and domestic
science. wherein special students may
be trained. Its revenues are derived
from tax of one mill per dollar upon
the grand assessment roll of the state
and an income from land leases and
sales under the land grant of congress
of 1852, etc.
No Institution of learning in the world
has probably such a vast endowment in
lands as the University of Texas, which
was founded in 1883 at Austin. Bryan
and Galveston. Its original land en-
dowment was s20O. 900 acres. subse-
quently reduced TO 100000 acres by the
diversion of a portion for the support
of the public schools Nearly 100 teach
ers comprise the faculty of this institu-
ton. the average attendance at which
is loo.
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p L'NE is prominently the com
mencementT season, for out of
the half thousand colleges and
universities ia the United States
not less than $50 end their col
legiate year this month, less than forty
in May and but two or three in July
Although it may seem a MISSIONER to
call this day commencement the
word has a legitimate origin and the
sanction of long usage not only in Eu-
rope but in this country
1T is now 26O years since the first
actual commencement was celebra ted
i'm this country-that is. in an English
speaking community. IT was in the
summer of 1872 before the confedera-
ton of the colonies. that the first COM
raencement of Harvard was held" says
the historian. and from the small be-
ginnines at Cambridge may be traced
the development of collegiate education
in the United States 1t was a small
community Of scholars that first gath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09
PREcocIous INVENTORS.

John Ericsson, the famous swede who
built the Monitor and the great iron
bridge at Sunderland. England. was re-
markably bright as a child. inventing
a the age of twelve a new form Of
sawmill and preparing a working model
of it. The saw blade he made Of an Old
watch spring, moved by crank con-
structed of a broken teaspoon. and his
only tools were knife file and a GIN
let. 1t was this same wonderful invent
or who later on drove a big ship across
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by the light of which his elder brother
was working In moment the flame
burned UP white and brilliant. and the
secret of the lamp chimney was made
clear.
Cast iron cement was a boys inven-
ton though the name of the boy who
invented it is not known One day Will
liam Murdoch, the man who first ap-
piled coal gas to Illuminating purposes.
went into a workshop in which ne us
employed and began to hunt for a tool
he wanted He found everything in
confusion. and workman told him he
had seen one of the boys al his tool
chest a few days before Among other
upsets, some sal ammoniac had beer
spilled on a quantity Of iron filings. ana
the resulting mixture had bitten into
the blade of his saw. This compound
was the first cast iron cement.
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enlarged their equipment by ENGRAVING
professional and technical schools upon
the original stocks, the university prop
er was of later growth It was owing
to the foresight of public spirited Amer
leans that provision was made when
the great northwest was opened for the
founding of universities endowed by
and under the supervision of the state
By this wise provision was laid the
foundation of what may be truly called
our national universities, practically
free as to tuition literally provided
with funds, watched over by every citi-
zen of the states in which they are sit
uated and regarded as the capstones of
the state system of education. 1t is
owing to the wisdom Of their founders
that so many of these great state insti-
tutions have enlarged their scope of OPP
erations to the extent of becoming YER
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SCIENCE HALL. UNIVERSITY OF
TENN F,SSEE

The University of Kansas at Law
renee, which now boasts 50 instructors
and 1850 students. originated in the act
of congress of Jan %, 1866, granting a
liberal endowment OF lands. and its an
nual income is about 5000 600.
The University of Illinois at Urbana
was established under the acts Of 1862
and 1866. 1t has permanent productive
funds exceeding $500, 900, a campus Of 40
acres, with farm land aggregating near
~ 500 acres. the value of its buildings