The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-08-16

membership, which is already large.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l5.--While peace
talk rules at The Hague and Andrew
Carnegie, as the patron saint, 10 there
to see that the olive branch yet will cast
It's benignant shade over the nations Of
the whole earth, II the Peace
Congress can bring II about, he IA
the quarry that Is being sought by
man who will not give him peace un.
I'll hc surrenders. The sleuth, is DIR.
Richard ID. Harlan, special representative
OF the George Washington University,
and he is halfway around the globe with
his eye on the purse strings OF the Laird
OF Skibo.
DR. Harlan comes Of fighting stock
that Is noted for its logged persistency.
His father Is the noted and venerable
member OF the United States supreme
bench, while one OF his brothers at one
time was a member OF the Chicago city
council and later was twice candidate
for mayor of that city on the Republi.
can ticket. The Chicago brothers ca.
reer as a Chicago city father was pic.
turesque. Fearless, he set out to balk
graft wherever he found It, and always
when referring to fellow members of
the council on the floor of the council
chamber he dubbed those whose records
were black. as "the biped from the
'steenth ward"
DR. Richard ID, Harlan is of the true
Harlan type--more than six feet in
height, broad d-shouldered deep voiced and
vigorous. His avowed reason for 20.
ing abroad is to study the systems in
vogue In the schools OF the political
sciences in France and England, but not
the least part OF his work will be to con-
vince Mr. Carnegie that as an opportu-
nifty for patriotic investment, the George
movement Is both time
and gilt'edgei.
The educator was in Paris this week,
and in the course Of an interview with
a representative of the New York Herald
he told OF the work he is engaged in. The
follows:
"lt is an effort to develop at the capi.
tai of the nation the great university
which George Washington in his lifetime
so earnestly endeavored to induce Con-
gress to establish and for which in his
will he left 25,O00 pounds ($l25,0OO) of
stock in the Potomac Navigation Com
pany rs n nucleus for its endowment
m exceedingly generous legacy for those
lays, 1t is standing reproach to
American patriotism that the plan that
was so much ON Washington's mind and
leart should have remained thus in prac.
.ical oblivion for hundred years.
"on account of modern conditions the
PRESENT movement differs from Washing
on's plan in two important particulars,
in no way the essentials of that
'lan, 1t Is to be almost entirely a uni.
ersity for graduate work. and it is to
70 founded by private benefactors in.
tead of being supported and controlled |
y tho government.
THE new movement has one great |
raotical advantage. The nucleus is al. |
eady established. 1t has eighty. five
ears OF history behind it. 1t already
as 1900 students and about 200 teachers
nd owns 100000 worth of real estate. /
is the old Columbian University of
Washington, D. G., with a new cnarter,
new aim and new name"
Washingtonians are deeply interested
, Dr. Harlan's errand abroad. The
lccess of his quest means much to the
npital, for it will result in the national-
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