New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-01

Standardization and a more economical distribu-
4 the higher educational institutions of this
unity This year has seen fhe first fruits of an
tective effort toward the accomplishment OF these
ads through the distribution of the income OF the
l9eal ao given to the General Education Board
IN D. Rockefeller and of the s0eeoOe0 given
oy drew Carnegie for the pensoning of college
prot =. sOrs. This latter is of the most inter
estine events in the educational world during the
year. and will have wide reaching effect upon
The higher education OF the country.
In regard the Standardization of The wider dis
tribu of colleges and universities educators and
the american people generally awakening TO
he f. CT that the present system-if collection of
eyer / hundred institutions of varying standards
ma aims. with little relation to another, may
e described as a SYSTEMS wasteful in the Of
) opportunities, its energies and OF money
The Wastefuness in the use of opportunity and
nergg exhibited itself especially in the loca-
ion Z colleges. DIR. Walter Il. Page in recent
rticl. declared that the waste by duplication had
.een 80 great that it probable that if the work
If bGildng developing ana constructing colleges
had done the United States with good iinan-
al judgment from the beginning We should now
deceloped-with the same expenditure that
been made-an efficient and well equipped and
cally maintained college within the easy reach of
cry youth who could profit by il. The opper-
nifty secure education of the higher char
ter AT hand often breeds the desire. IL is
aid az the inhabitants OF certain Connecticut
WA. in which agriculture is the chief occupation
zen. Doubtless Of the reasons is that well
nswn private preparatory school has hourished in
aat town Tor more than fifty years and has af-
rded the Teope opportunity of securing
cd education AT a moderate cost.
MASTEFUI4NESS OF LOCATION.
The was,efulness in location has many iIustra-
,Dns among the hundreds of institutions calling
themselves colleges universities and granting
rgr,--s. For instance in Southern town there
" two Methodist colleges. One is assisted by the
,,rtnern branch Of the Methodist Church. the
,ler by The Southern. They are. of course. rivals
I. their constituencies are in the same territory
IN, PAGE mentions another instance. He writes:
ne Know a town where there TWO colleges. Al
n y them the boys are taught the usual sub
Us. ancient and modern languages mathematics
ysi.s - chemistry ana they are taught WIN IN
g. ,lts,7 rs. IN same f@xtbooks
sla several members Of the faculty OF one college
hefnbers 81 The other faculty. These colleges
ia,a f,uildineS ana grounds too that are very ,
s3ach alike. one has "a inner house for It's library
Wiling boas,s that il has a better collection OF
:. on has "a more pretenti. us dormitory than
3 other. but this advantafe TOO. is offset by some
s4gn for a while you will discover that the popula-
NIX; thar me college on this side OF the town is
tlet lh3n thr cglleet. on ne the sllr "i me
.etier spiri,7 Of its q liese Inside the colleges
anernselves 1hs college spirit al unes becomes
rrense, M"st Of fhe boss vino are graduated al
pee college earnestly thank heaven that their par
from becoming students OF the other, with
spirit Yet il. standing outside this par
ffaanship YOU take serious measure of the
pTiz and worth Of these colleges. You would find il
iTd t. decide which is ia" useful To the
" unity. The boys who have gone out from one
ae becC1ue = useful the boys who have
s.e-ae from the other. You would discover that
- I president of L. somewhat broader man
sfn The president of the other, but they after
dire men OF the same good type some Of IN" teach
,r,s better than OF the teachers in
: other but This remark be turned around
'''stL reference 20 other teachers.
giea
has no presidents Of both OF these colleges were
aca ;hlg Tor money from The same two or three
the \ III afy. while the other sought a contribu-
ere,ts 10Th 10 make more than a moderate sized
ia lsge. 81 the community is asked support
inst buttons. with presidents and two
faculties each doing much the same work; two
tibrsres, etc. The income Of both. which divided
maintains neither well would support very
sgell. and enable it TO do much better work than
either d.
- 30 anu town forty miles away is "A third
college. esta blisiled by the This institution
: a competitor with the Other TWO for students in
he locality
4 glance the different states shows that in
ANY OF them the real college needs have not
seen known and, a result of ignorance of con
ditions The possible of the available funds
las not been made.
-'BCNCHING' OF COLLEGES.
Ia South Dakota. a state having a population
less than half lhat OF Connecticut there eight
colleges, all of which down the southeast
corner of the large state ana away the