The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23

The great anxiety to obtain help for
education from the very rich intensifies
with time. 1t has come to pass that
even some preachers and members OF
the churches are greatly anxious to
receive and will not stop Ito look the
gift-horse in the mouth" Evil grows
always with nurturing and is ever
ascending and descending. The cities
and various benevolent institutions
are, too, taking a hand and seek ia
vors and grants from the millionaire
crowd, which is now large in the
United States, and in other lands,
Golfers of the selected beneficiaries and
Scores of colleges, schools and Univer-
stiles have been honored and helped by
the benefactions and gifts of the rich
folks. This is true in the Northern
States to an eminent degree. The
funds from the multi-millionaire
folks have run as stream into the
institutions of learning. The wrong
goes into many Observation-Disclosures,
bricks and mortar, faculties, appara-
tus, ETC., until there is plethora and
botheration to know what to do with
it all. This is true of the two great
English-speaking countries to con-
siderable degree.
1t is not surprising that this great
outflow of wealth towards what Is
excite criticisms and even arouse sus-
picion and fears as to results. One of
the able British literary publications
1.-THE Independent Review"-in re-
cent article points to an injury in
fiicted but perhaps not designed by
the donors, / may we'll insist Ii says
"Closer examination will doubtless
show that overlooking in certain de-
partments is attended by starvation in
others, that the special interests OIL
Whims of donors are represented by
abnormal growths, and that, in partt-
cular, too much money goes int
bricks and mortar and the outward
visible signs of educational activity. toe
little into the inward graces of the in.
tellectual life. Everywhere we nho
the campus" with its huge depart
mental buildings, it's law and engineer.
ing schools, museum libraries, labora-
tories. gymnasium, theatre, the enor-
NOUS staff of highly specialized, un'
evenly equipped. and ill-paid PROBES
sors grinding out intermediate course!
of lectures and turning out sheaVes o.
printed matter for the University
press; an ever-swelling output of rap
idly produced intellectual cOmmoditle!
good. bad. and indifferent. is hurriedly
swallowed by earnest hordes of in
dustrious but often in-grounded stu
dents, young men and women fresf
from farm or forcing city High School
to be whirled through an intellectual
factory which shall stock, shape. ant
stimulate their minds, depositing then
as rudimentary teachers, lawyers, Ell
gineers. or clergymen, when they nave
passed through the several productive
processes"
But this excess, If it be excess. i
not confined to the richly endowed in
situations of learning only. 1t will b'
found that the leading institutions o
the small monetary kind, are pressing
in the same direction, and are enlarg
ing all the time their borders, their de
partments, their various schools. Blu
the millionaire endowments are no
the cause, for but little, if any, conn
their way, and they press on the goo'
work of education making it solid am
ethical and beneficial to the State, t.
society, to the Individual.