The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-16

number of them are in the colleges
of Lincoln, Neb-, they are in Yale and
Harvard, in the Northwestern and Ohio
Wesleyan. and they are to be found by
the hundreds in the state institutions
and other colleges of Kansas.
by the way, speaking of Lincoln
reminds me that you may be interested
to know of a visit that l have made
to that city. I heard that they had a
number of colleges there and was
curious to see what they were and to
know the result of rival concerns in
one town. I found the two state insti-i
tutions, the university and the agricuI-
tural college, the Methodist, Christian
and Adventist colleges, a medical
school and two Conservatives of music.
The smallest of the colleges has an at
tendance of about 500. and the aggre-
gate of the student population is some
thing between four and five thousand
for the nine months of the year. 1 did
not hear a word that would indicate
other than the most happy relations as
existing between the several schools;
IN fact the venerable president of the
wesleyan university told me of what
ne considered as advantages accr1liner
to him and his school because of the
location in an educational center. while
merchants without exception were
SWIFT to sneak of the value of the stu
| dents to the mercantile interests of the
CITY.
I wish you would emphasize the fact
mat 1t Is our purpose not particularly to
~ llply Inc educational facilities of the
state, out 70 supply those schools which
are in special demand and of which the
supply IS either altogether wanting or al
together inadequate.
OF the college fever we have had quite
enough TO say at least Everywhere the
Signs OF eruption are manifest and the
state IS loaded down with universities
ana colleges so-called, badly located. poor
~ quit, endowed not at all or at least in
amounts so meager as to amount to moth
ing, whose support is burdensome ana
future uncertain. We do not propose 10
add to that unfortunate list, neither do
we propose to enter the field of purely
coilege work as now engaged in by sew
erai respectable corporations, but we do
propose to furnish to the thousands who
demand it that kind of instruction which
VIII MT them for the practical affairs of
me and obviate the present necessity and
expense of going abroad. The field for
such an institution is unusually broad
and rich and the times proDitious for its
beginning"
At its meeting last Monday night the
o1f1cial board of the First Methodist
church made a record of its first formal
action in the premises by giving it's hearty
ana unanimous Endorsement to the enter
prise and through its pastor, inviting DR..
Embree to present the matter publicly at
an early date. In compliance with that
invitation Dr. Embree will probably have
something to say next Sunday morning
From all that he had seen and heard
Dr. Embree declared that he was entirely
satisfied with the outlook. He said: I'VE
have able and enthusiastic friends with
increasing ranks, a plan which meets
to all men and one that is full of good
things for all classes.
Aside from the moral and intellectual
advantages which are inseparably con-
eratiOnS of business which too obvious
to need pointing out.