The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-20
,hpr Education i'm United States
: Bv FREDERIC J. HASKIN

schooling TO follow the county ;nstruc
llon. Nearly every State and Territor,
now mas university with tuition oftey
entlrcIy Tree. for State pupils. Aronnd
tho older private colleges Of the Ess,
na.e grown mp universities, Princeton
university has grown from The College
OF New Jersey, Columbia from KinaSs
col,ege, Harvard from Harvard college
and \ ale from Yale college The I7ni.
Verslty of Pennsylvania traces lis he
gln!n,lng, to the "'Charity SCHOOL,. al
Ihlladeiphla, founded in 175I, and
changed, through Franklin g advice
h'gher education answers A peysist
ent call of the people. They carl.
reaI1zed That as D1an's illiteracv de-
creased his earning capacity and his
powers as citizen increased Tho,
learned by comparison that the college
olsn mas hVe times the chance for MAX
iuS oood ~ every llne than the other
Fellow There IS now one college grad.
uste IN every 1900 members Of the non.
ulation, and the ratio is increasine
one-third of all our statesmen arc coI.
lege graduates. over one third The au
thors, nearly half the prominent nbvsi
Grams and LAWYERS. and over half +be
clcr%vmen and leading educators. Thir-
ty-slX per cent of the members of Con
gress have been college men, fifty.6ye
per cent OF the Presidents. Vice Pres;
dents ana Cabinet officers, sixty-nine
per cent OF the Justices of the Supreme
Court and eighty-six per cent Of the
Chief Justices.
1t is said mat had it not been FOR
Harvard the Revolution would have
been delayed fifty wears. Harvard.
!nncrton' ',olumbia aud William and
Mary hclped make the Declaration OF
Independence and the Constitution the
great documents that they are Jelfer
SON, Adams and Livingston. three of
tpe five men who drafted the Declara-
ton of independence, were college
graduates, OF the 6ftv-tive members
of the convention of 1887, twentv-nine
were graduates from colleges or univer-
sitles: Princeton sent nine, William
and Mary hve, Yale four, Harvard
three, Columbia two, the Universities
of Pennsylvania, Oxford, London, Edin-
burgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen one each
The difficulty that higher education
has 10 contend with is the diversity
Of standards that obtains There are
many so-called colleges. good enough in
their way, that offer degrees which in
no way reach the standards of the bet
ter colleges. Graduates with A. B. de.
SlSSS ll'H JnStlIuLlcDe OF ID'S Class
have found to their surprise that the
degree was worthless, and oftentimes
they have had TO be coached before
they could matriculatc for even the
freshman class In many other colleges.
The college entrance examination
board. an organization that has been
formed within the past decade, has not
only mlnlmized the examination work
for colleges. but has been instrumental
Sol IL.
Of study, both in colleges and prepara-
tory schools, In 1871 tbe University
of Michigan introduced the accrediting
system of admission 10 colleges, al.
lowing graduates from schools of recog
nizcd ability to enter on certificates
without examination.
Higher education has been intro.
duced into the home circle by the
Chautauqua Institute and through Uni
versitv Extension courses. The former
orgauizat atiou was formed in 1874. and
since then has provided home reading
courses in the arts, sciences and Iitcra-
ture. About $4,000 students profit by
this work each wear. The University
extension movement is traced 10 the
mechanics institutes of England, or
ganized some years ago to promote the
cause of higher education among work
men. In this country it is carried on
from three large ceuters, Albany, Phila
delpbia and Chicago the public library
association aiding in placing either d
lecture or correspondence course before
10000 persons every wear. AT the time
Of the American Revolution there were
only two professional schools IN this
country. but there are now about 800
institutions of this kind. with over 90
600 students enrolled.