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institutions. the best facilities for high CT education are all at the capita ! where besides the university, house. in beautiful Gothic building. are tn Institute of Fine Arts, the Nationa Library. the College of Engineers. tn School of Arts and Trades, the Schoo of Agriculture. the National Militar, Academy the Nautical School and tn School of Engineering.
 still another South American coun try which can give lessons to this re public in making use of it's govern mental department and collections il Chilli. The capital city of Santiago il laid out in the same imperial way q.
 is Buenos Ayres, Rio de Janeiro o Washington. In no other Spanish American country are the educationa interests of the people more carefully
 served. Each Chilean province has it:
 local gymnasium which sends student.
 up to the National university where
 instruction is given in theology, law
 political science, medicine, pharmacy physical and mathematical sciences
 philosophy. literature. and the fine arts
 There are also at Santiago a National
 Conservatory of Music, National Ob-
 servatory and School of Arts and
 Trades.
 | Buenos Ayres. again, has one of the
 three great universities of Argentina with a collective attendance of about 2500. Connected with the university
 system of Argentina are Is lyceums 35
 normal school and other technical in-
 stitutions. This plan is somewhat like
 that which has been suggested for the
 George Washington University. in ac-
 cordance with which the authorities of
 the various state universities shall CO., operate in sending to Washington those
 of their advanced students who can
 best take advantage of the resources
 of history. literature. science and art
 in the governmental treasure houses. Paraguay and Uruguay do not occur I to us as countries possessed of exten-
 sive educational equipment. Yet their
 respective capitals, Ascuncion and
 Montevideo. have each national uni versailles with Full equipment of pro- ! fessors and large attendance of stu dents. In especial, the university at Montevideo Is a very Nourishing in
 stitution which has assistance from i'm portant libraries and national muse-
 ums. At Rio de Janeiro. although there
 is no university proper. there are scv- eral schools of higher education which constitute in effect a national univer- sity of medicine. law. military and naval sciences, a school of mines and a polytechnic institute. All students in the Brazilian capital may make use of National Librar.' with about 260, 900 volumes. of large and well supplied museum, several of whose departments have an international reputation. a Botanical Garden and the Astronomi- cal Observatory which was founded in 17SO and is one of the oldest in the world.
 Bogota in Columbia. has long had faculties of letters and philosophy. jur- isprudence and political science. medi- cine and natural sciences mathematics and engineering although some of these departments were interrupted during the recent political disturbances. Quito in Ecuador is equipped with a good sized National University as well as with commercial and technical schools At La Paz. the capital of Bolivia, are colleges Of arts and trades and the military sciences as well as two muse ums.
 As ir South American countries so also in Central America and Cuba. The beautiful capital of Honduras. Tegucisalpa, has a National Institute and Normal School. Salvador as its capital has a university well as a national college for the higher educa- tion of women. In Cuba is the Uni versity ot Havana
 Conditions in the South American countries differ from those in the United States to such an extent that il can hardly be expected the city of Washington will ever have a national institution ot higher education pre- dominate over local institutions. Any national university at Washington must supplement rather than supplant other collegiate institutions, and 1t must be endowed by private initiative not by the national government. At the same time 1t is not remarkable that Spanish Americans coming to this country are surprised that more use is not made by advanced students of the libraries and museums with which the national capital is so plentifuIly supplied. Indeed, John Barrett, direc- tor of the International Bureau of American Republics in this city, says that he has been told by many prom inent men that a national university in Washington providing facilities for and research in the politi- cal sciences would speedily become a great international university. The people of the Latin-American countries are particularly interested in political and Judicial subjects and their na- tional universities send many students each year to Paris or to Germany for instruction which cannot be given at home. If there were similar opportuni- ties for study hn the United States many of them would prefer to come to 
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