Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-13
ROOM FOR ALL.
midland Schools1

Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin, In
recent interview, says that Iowa can
never be Il great state educationally
until ii kills all its provate and denom-
national colleges and concentrates all
it's energies into the building up of one
great state university. He says Iowa
ca ege no great institution like the
u! ity of Michigan, or the Uni
versIty of Minnesota, until forty or
more denominational schools are alb
sorbed into one graet state school.
Iowa citizens will hardly admit that
one great educational institution is
better for a state than forty good insti-
tutons scattered over the state. We
believe that here is a place for the
small college and that it is not neces-
sary for an institution to be large in
order to be good or great.
We will be willing to measure UP our
citizenship with the state that boast of
great universities. Iowa seems to be
holding her own in the world of affairs.
Her sons and daughters are winning
their way to fame in all lies af activity
and their education has been for the
most part in the small colleges.
These institutions have been here
from the beginning. They have been
erected, supported and endowed by the
most earnest and consecrated citizens
of the state. They belong to the state.
In a sense they are all state institu-
tions. They represent the labor and
sacrifice of our best people.
Iowa will be slow to enter into poll
icy which will in any way limit the
e. To ,,,,I
national schools and colleges 1t
would be madness to follow the sug-
gestion of Governor LaFollette and en-
ter upon a policy which would mean
the gradual death of the small colleges
which are a part of our state system
of education just as truly as are the
state institutions themselves.
Our state schools must recognize the
other institutions, which have grown
out of the benevolence of our citizen
ship Just as the state schools are eX-
pressions of the same spirit. There
should be perfect harmony between
the university and the colleges of the
state and any attempt to build up one
at the expense of the other should be
strongly rebuked by the public. Iowa
could not legislate the small colleges
out of existence if she tried. They are
here to stay. They are a part of our
system and the people are pleased with
the system. Then let's be done with
this quarreling among college authors
ties which has already become nauss
eating to the public and which cannot
be covered up even by newspaper in
terviews of harmony resolutions. The
i,,,r of icI,
ousies among the educational leaders.
Iowa has a great state univerSity; it
will never have a larger institution,
but With the support of the colleges it
may have one of the grestest post
graduate schools in the union.
1t is patent that the Iowa institutions
are as jealous of one another as lot
of cheap doctors in a small town, each
undertaking the other and magnifying
it's own virtues
Let each institution recognize the
right of the other to exist, and under
stand that neither state nor private
institutions can be builded UP by tear
ing down their rivals.
SOME ENANGELISTS.
Perry Advertiser.l
We are not saying one word irrev
erantly or at cross purposes witt
Christianity or it's teachings. We d.
not mean to hold the ministers of
Christ UP to the slightest ridicule. We
respect the cloth and the cody men
who devote their lives toward the up
lifting of a fellow being; who are not
afraid to stand forth and extend the
hand of real charity to a brother who