, 1907-06-03
LARAMIE'S OPPORTUNITY.

Now that the agricultural college
case has heen entirely disposed of In
the court of last resort. every citizen
OF Laramie should lend aid in the
building up of the University of Wyo.
ming. During the past fifteen years
there has been a unity of purpose and
action n the goal we have been fight
ing for has been reached, but there
are other things to DO and much more
to be accomplished. A patriotic, loyal
college spirit must be %engendereh
throughout the state. The people OF
Wyoming as n whole must be given
to understand that 1t is their institu.
ton and that they can only receive
their full measure of benefit from it
: by giving 1t their undivided support,
In its educational qualifications n in
its financial management 1t is now Up
on a high plane, but there Is much
that al be done to bring 1t closer to
the people as a whole. The first thing
is to have the undivided support Of
the citizens of Laramie. Here every
thing should be done to build it Up.
Errors must be corrected. to be sure,
but in the spirit of friendliness and
not in the spirit of partisan rancor
and hatred.
College towns are generally good
towns. The atmosphere is naturally
optimistic and the spirit of progress
pervades everything. Professors and
students look on the bright side OF
life and their aspirations and hopes
are o. the lofty. inspiring sort. This
is the kind of a spirit that helps grow
ing cities. 1t gives life, vigor and
action to business as we'll as to edu-
cational matters. A college town, too,
is benefited materially as well as edu,
cationally by the institution. For Illus
tration, the University of Wyoming
now has an annual income close to
eighty thousand dollars per annum,
This large sun finds its way into the
channels OF trade. This sum is exclu.
sive of the money spent by students
and they are liberal people. If the
Wyoming university can be built up
like the Colorado university at Boul'
der, as the state grows and prospers,
Laramie will be tremendously benefit
ed thereby. Boulder. Colo, Is q splen.
did example Of what a be made OF
a college town. 1t has been built up
to a city about the size of our state
capital. There are 112 instructors and
$50 students. Thus the college con.
tributes almost one thousand people In
.-ora-,Nr, orl sf,,lnntS nlpnn piyino
support to perhaps four times that
many people. In proportion to popula'
ton, the number of students is no
greater than that of the University OF
Wyoming, but Wyoming is not going
to stand still. Everybody believes that
it is on the eve of great development,
and with that development growth and
W will come to the state universe
ty. We of Wyoming are in a better
position than are the people of Colo
RADIO. Our institution is n unit-not
divided between several cities. Down
there the main institution is at Boul'
der. with the agricultural college at
Fort Collins and a state normal school
at Greeley. They are compelled to go
to enormous expense and to suffer a
Gripping of their energies because OF
this division. By a unity of action and
a concentration of energy, Wyoming
can make her university n of the
greatest in the west. The fight for un-
ity, SO far as the state at large is on.
cerned, has been won. There is hardly
a possibility that it will ever come up
for legislative action. But there must
be a fight for unity of purpose and &C
ton in our own city. Every man AMI
woman in this county should stand by
the university in all things, and it Will
D them a hundred fold-education-
ally, morally and financially.
In Laramie's great future the bright
est star of hope is the University OF
wyoming.
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