The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-28

tne advantages arising from lne
same would accrue to the benefit of its
own people.
Just what these will be cannot be
determined at the present time. be-
cause the number of people which it
will bring to the city to make their
temporary homes is mere matter of
conjecture. There will be many who
in all probability would not have come
even with the unparalleled advantages
afforded by the state university, en-
cept for the location of the new in
stitution at this place. Whatever
comes because of the extra opportuni-
ties is the measure of the colleges
financial advantage to the city.
| But in this somewhat sordid and en-
tirely commercial view the people
have not altogether lost sight of the
need of great institution like Wes-
ley college to the people of the COM
munity, nor are they unmindful of it's
advantages to the educational system
of the state.
In this matter they have risen above
the sordid views of the selfish and
material, and are able to realize that
there is in this work rounding out
of the great educational system of the
state, which from it's very nature can
not be secured by the political power
| of the commonwealth.
The old educators considered that
there were three elements of man to
| be educated-the mental. the physi-
| cal. and the moral. While we have
modernized these elements, the truth
remains that the development of these
three constitute the perfect education
of the individual.
While the state has fully met the re-
quirements of the mental and physi-
cal education. the enforcement of
church and state in this country has
almost precluded the development of
the other in the meaning of the term
as used by the old charlottesville de-
velopment of the religious faculties
of the mind. The schools have taught
morality, but not religious develop
ment. The reason for this is found
| in the fact that the teaching of that
subject naturally led to sectarianisln,
and thereby encroached upon the mat
| ter of individual religious beliefs.
Notwithstanding this fact the elu-
Gators have recognized the needs of
schools wherein the higher philusophi-
cal branches were taught, and where
the languages and doctrines that OF
necessity must be interpreted by the
principles OF religious beliefs and
faiths would receive more attention
than could be given them in he gen
eral college.
But along with this was required a
general educational foundation upon
which the superstructure of the other
must be built Without this founda-
ton laid broad and deep, the other
became top-heavy and fell of it's own
weight, or the possessor, mar
row because of his limited opportuli-
ties, became a fanatic. Sectarian
schools saw the need of having a
broad foundation in which the sub
jects which broaden the individual in
tellectually should have a prominent
place. The two systems met upon a
common ground and a compromise,
not formal but none the less real, was
the result
BY its terms the heretofore secta-
rian schools have taken from the pub
lie institutions the material prepared
for thems so far as general education
is concerned, upon which to build the
great special education that is dis
tinctively their own.
This is just the conditions upon
which Wesley college has been atfili-
ated with the state university. The
general education of the individual
will be left to the state institution
while upon the foundation thus pre-
pared Wesley college will build the
special structure for which it is es-
pecially fitted.
That a great many of the young
people are seeking this special edu-
cation is evidenced by the large num-
her of students found in the secta-
rian schools throughout the country.
That larger number of these people
will seek the advantages Of affiliated
institutions where they may have the
full advantages of both without sacri-
ficing either is certainly a reasonable
conclusion.
The effect of this course cannot but
have beneficial effect upon the edu-
cational system of the state, and so to
speak. fill in the gap which the state
can never do.
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