The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-01

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The University Of Richmond.
Editor Of Tho Times-Dispatch.
Sir,--Your interest In tho movement
for tho, University OF Richmond makes
mo bold enough to write to express
some doubts that lave In regard to
that movement.
Il feel that In raising any Dues.
( ton III regard to any educational
movement l may belong to the NUM-
Der OF those who "haply' may DO found
ito fight against God";Sand yet in spite
of THIS I have reached tho conclusion
that there may be something In the
movement llurtful to tho interests OF
the University Of Virginia. That in
stitution ha salways been to her sons
the cherished ther, and some per-
laps may DO too sensitive about her
elfare. sSi III
Mr.. Jeffcrson's great idea, which
resulted In the Hnobles foundation near
charlottesville, will always entitlo
him to tho gratitude Of tho State
continent as Mr.. Herbert Adams has
shown, tho llrst university that cx-
listed thereon. In time, and, bclcvc, in
scholarship. From its birth 1t has been
unique. Perhaps this has not been
generally known. Mr. Joseph IT. Choate,
our late Ambassador to Great Britain,
speaking at Oxford, gave to Harvard
the credit Of the eclectic system.
when tits admitted by Harvard her
self that tho University az Virginia
had had it long before its adoption
| there.
There are many things needed in
our State and city. But do wo need
i n,, I lcr t1yC Ia
two, both OF which arc doing good
work. What the University Of Nir-,
| ginia lacks Is means to- advance It's
work. This Richmond might help
lit to acquire. Why shVuld Richmond.
then set UP another university, If it
/ means from tie many elcemosynary ed
vocational funds now existing in the
embryo state. Is the University of
i Virginia too far from Richmond? The
whole South has sent her sons thither;
i as evidence Of those farthest off might
be named the5two United States sena-
| tors from NTeXas. Is anything lack
ing in its teaching. or methods? Rich.
nond might help to supply it. Is it
too broad in its teaching? DR.. Broad-
dus, Bishop Dudley. John B. Minor,
4 Noah X Davis and Francis II. Smith
have taught there. Is it's influence on
4 the wane? Go to the Congress, the
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mcrs, merchants and other business
y men Of the country.
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socinl POSITION - no.
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