Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-17
BIG COLLEGE PLANNED
Hopes for London Institution
About to BE Realized.
LORD ROSEBERY'S SCHEME
Contest Between Canada and Australia
for Emigrants.
CARE OF woRKHoUsE CHILDREN
Priest Exorts Modern Society-Weak
nesses of Scotland Universities Ex-
plotted il Carnegie Trust Report.
Specisl Cablecram to The Star.

Special Cabecram to The Star
LONDON. March 16-The great teen
biological college in London on the hnes oi
the famous German institution in Chariot
tenburg. which Lord Rosebery so strongly
advocated in 1903. is at length to come
within practical lines. Mr.. Mckenna, the
new president of the board of education. Is
framing a bill dealing with scope OF the
college so far as London University Is
concerned The government Is to give the
land at South Kensington. and VIII make
suitable grants of money. The institution
will have the active cooperation OF the
great business firms and techlncai lhous-
tries throughout the empire.
Lord Rosebery. in his letter to the county
council, asked that body to provide the
annual maintenance of 100000. The cost
of the erection and equipment was put at
about 81, 100000. The late Mr.. Alfred Belt
subsequently bequeathed toward the scheme
81 10000 Sir Ernest Cassel and Lord
Strathcona were among those who were
prepared to give financial aid.
1T was little short of a scandal said
Lord Rosebery. that our young men, eager
to equip themselves with the most perfect
technical training, should be compelled to
resort to the universities of Germany or OF
the United States.
According to the bill which is being
framed, the senate of London University
will have merely general powers of control
The governing body will consist of forty
members appointed as follows: Six by the
crown. four by the board of education, five
each by the University of London. the Lon
don county council and the council OF the
city and guilds of London Institute, four
by the teaching staff of the new institu-
ton, two by the exhibition commissioners.
one each by the Royal Society. the lnstitu-
ton of Civil Engineers, the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of
Electrical Engineers, the Iron and Steel In
stitute. the Institution of Naval Architects,
the Society of Chemical Industry, the Fed
Grated Institution of Mining Engineers and
the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy.
The college building will be erected on
three sites in South kensington. One be-
longs to the government, and is at present
used by the solar physics observatory
other two belong to the exhibition commits
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Keen Struggle for Emigrants.
A keen struggle is going on between Can
ada and Australia for the British emigrants
Who leave these shores every year. Both
colonies proclaim their need Of men, and
their agents are equally alert in endeavor-
ing to paint the prospects of their respec-
tive lands in the most favorable light. Mr.
Walker, chief of the Canadian emigration
office, is authority for the statement that
the construction of the new Grand Trunk
railway which is to stretch across the con-
tinent and will be 1000 miles in length will
take at least seven years to complete.
Sixty thousand men will be wanted as
soon as they can be had ne said. But
they must be resolute workers. An idle
man who fails here will fail in Canada if
he is idle
The federal government of Australia is
equally anxious to secure workers, but
they must understand something of ground
on iN-.lfI ILL.,
Australia-assist intending emi-rants to
such an extent that the passage money
comes to only so or $50. Where Australia
loses in the struggle for emigrants, how
ever, appears to be in the fact that she
possesses central emigration office
Quite recently Capt Collins the secretary
of the commonwealth in England sought
some suitable offices in the neighborhood
of the states should come under one roof
This program. however, has never been
carried into effect.
Workhouse Children.
About two years ago Mrs. Close pro-
pounded a scheme to the various boards of
guardians in the metropolis for the bring
ing up of workhouse children in the coun-
try districts of Canada. The scheme met
with the approval of several well-known
people. notably the archbishop of York,
Lord OHagan and Others but no practical
steps were taken by any board of guar
dams to put it into operation. Mrs. Close,
therefore. decided to make an experiment
with ten children at her own expense. She
visited Canada and obtained model farm
at Nauwigowauk, W. B., and last June
eight boys and two girls ranging in age
from ten to fourteen years left England.
They were in charge of a lady who now
writes glowingly to Mrs. Close of their
progress, and Mrs. Close is satisfied that
her scheme is pronounced success.
1t is, she says, not an emigration scheme
nor is 1t a charity, inasmuch as II Is in
tended to deal only with money raised by
the rates and spent by public bodies for the
maintenance of state children. 1t neither
resembles nor completes with nor interferes
in any way with DIR. Barbados work, the
Waits and Strays, or any similar society.
With regard to the cost, Mrs. Close says
the capital outlay Is only SIS per child
against an average here of $780, and the
cost of maintenance is much lower than in
England.
Priests Onslaught on Society.
Father Bernard Vaughan continues his
onslaughts on modern society. In a recent
sermon at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception he said: I'VE are living in a
day when the world thinks that it has made
the discovery that there is no such thing as
SIM he said. I'm current literature in
drawing room conversations, in club land,
in working mems homes. in halls and clubs
and In the so-called scientific criticisms of
the day We are reminded that We have
passed from the shadow of dogma into the
Elimination of science. In some of the
churches We are even told that there Is no
more harm in not attaining to a certain
moral standard than In not reaching a GER
tain artificial line of beauty.
How silly and childish is the world. 1t
has got into its spiritual dotage SO soon;
The world does not like-ft abhors indeed
the passion Of Jesus Christ. 1t is not
treated of in the fashionable churches
There are West End ladies' who could give
points to West Ham guardians, and there
are firms within a stones throw of this
pulpit who could tell of worse social
crimes than have yet referred to-"
Queen Congratulated Centenarian.
The queen has sent a letter Of congratu-
lation through Lord Hylton to Mrs. Mary
Anne Maynard. who has just celebrated