The Indianapolis journal., 1903-11-11
NEW BRANCH OF STUDY.
Chicago University Will Train Stu
dents for Public Service.


Milwaukee Sentinel.
"A college for the professional instruction
and practical training of young people who
are to enter public service in any capacity
is to be established in connection with the
University of Chicago, unless there Is some
unexpected opposition said Prof. Charles
Richmond Henderson, chaplain of the Chi
cago University, to the Association of Col
legiate Alumnae at the Athenaeum last
evening.
"Sueh college would be the first of Its
kind to be founded in this country, although
Columbia is making a small experiment in
this direction. The object of the college Is
to persuade young men and women to be-
come professional public servants. In our
state reformatories, prisons. asyiums and
charitable institutions there is crying need
at present for the trained and influential
person to take charge or all departments
and this need can never be met until In
ducement Is offered for young people TO
60 into what may be known as profession
without profit.
.At the request of President Harper
have drawn up the plans for the work OF
such a college and these plans have been
approved by the faculty They are now be-
fore the senate, the highest authority in our
institution, and We are confident that this
body will favor the plan. This done the
matter will be referred at once to the board
the college begun at once.
MANY of the lines of instruction demand
ed in the curriculum OF the new college are
now included in the courses of study at the
university, but our object is to group this
instruction and add to ii as the needs de-
mand, making II special course in which
| degrees are to be granted 1t is the inten-
| tion to cover every line of philanthropic
| and state service SO that young people may
| adapt themselves for institutional clerk
| ships Y. NJ c. K secretaries or settlement
Of
| which appeals to them The curriculum
| must cover training as we'll as instruction
and in the plan which have submitted pro-
vision is made that in the four years
| course at least $50 days must be spent out
| side of the college in actual work among
the conditions which the graduate expects
Professor Raymond's address was the
| closing one on the programme given in con-
| nectfon with the Collegiate Alumnae con-
| vention last evening. 1t came as hitting
| climax for the other two addresses in which
| the most urgent pleas were made for the
| enlistment of trained women, and especially
| of college women, in the state institutions.
| With the establishment of such college
| Professor Raymond predicts that the next
| generation will furnish trained and expert
| enced men and women who may be trusted
| with the administration and finances OF
| state and charitable institutions.
| Miss Julia c. Lathrop, of Rockford, H.,
made a plea for a reform in the manage
| ment of state institutions and for the sepa-
| ration of their management from politics.
| She asserts that every cent spent for public
welfare has long been considered part of
| political plunder and that the educated
| women of the country must interest them
| selves in existing conditions IL a reform is
| to be effected. She insists that the merit
| system and civil-service rules ought to pre-
| vail in the differing of state institutions
and that there ought TO be both an intel
lectual and a moral test In securing such
| offices.
| There are over half a million people,
| sick, poor. insane and criminals. which this
| Nation is called on to feed. clothe and shell
ter. Think OF the vast expenditure of
| money spent for public good can be made to
eerve the party ends Of the political party
II there is mue ak Of and
| ing. but the keys are handed over without
| a protest to ignorant. brutal people. IL we
wish to make the prisoners in these institu-
tions better We must put better keepers
| over them.
The great system of state education
| should be brought TO bear on state institu-
tions. Salaries should be large enough 70
| attract men OF ability and their positions
| should be secured so as TO give them the
| opportunity for doing work and carrying or
| Investigations that will be Of benefit to the
| Nation. The caring for the insane, the poor
| and the children and adults in reforma-
tories is a large responsibility and should
| be placed In the hands of men and women
! OF Intellectual and business ability. Enlist
| ment In such service Is serious civic
duty"
| ne state feIOEfndtoTy lot women offers
field of usefulness second TO none for
the trained college women" said Miss
Katherine b. Davis, superintendent OF the
| New York State Reformatory. I'VE need her
| personality I'm influencing the women 10 &C
| forth into the world as useful citizens in
stead OF to become the mothers of paupers
criminals and idiots. We need her help
i'm solving the problem OF what indus
trial education Is best fitted to the needs
of these women, nine out of ten of whom
are abnormal, mentally or morally. We
need their help in securing better legisla-
tion civil service laws. and the appoint
ment OF college women on the boards OF
the institutions"
Yesterday mornings session of the con-
vention was devoted TO the reports from
the various branches In relation 10 the spe-
cial educational work in which each Is in
terested. The endowing of scholarships, es-
tablishment OF Juvenile courts. the modern
izing OF public school methods are some
| of the objects which the branches are seek
ing to attain paper on college women
I'm the elementary schools was read by
Miss Rowland. OF Rhode Island. Miss f.