Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-04

extended everywhere, as matter or
fact the area they influenced was COM
paratively small.
Even such institutions as Yale and
Harvard" he continued, draw half of
their students from within 4 hundred
miles of their doors. In tile smaller
colleges the proportion of those who
come from that small radius is from
40 to so per cent. New York city. with
all its wealth, is still deficient. The
borough of Manhattan, for instance,
has enough facilities for undergradu-
ate study. while in Brooklyn there is a
decided lack Of them. Brooklyn has
various technical schools, but no gen
eral college but Adelphi
This was founded originally rs an
academy, and an effort is being made
now 10 differentiate the various de-
partments of the institution, for there
are grades in it which run from the
kindergarten to the degree of \. Il.
The Brooklyn Polytechnic. too. has a
great opportunity for expansion
Speaking of the proposal of Edward
NJ GrOut and Others 10 have all the
principal institutions of Brooklyn com
bined into Il great university. with the
aid of the city. Mr.. Gates said the mat
ter never had been brought to the at
tentiOn of the board. He declared,
however, there was nothing in the
charter Of the board which could pre-
vent its lending its aid either to a city
or Il state educational enterprise.
Chicago" he continued. lis well sup
piled with higher institutions of learn
Ing. st Louis has q growing center
of education in Washington university.
Kansas City has nothing. There are
forty cities of more than 100000 in
habitantS in this country which have
no colleges. Every city of that size
should have one. There should BE a
college for every hundred miles square
that is, for every 10000 square miles
Of territory or perhaps later for every
fifty miles square. Such cities as Lou
isville, Atlanta. Detroit. Toledo and
! even Omaha are not equipped with
| facilities for higher education.
In the neighbOrhood of Scranton
there are. say, within a radius of TWEEN
| ty-five miles 10000 inhabitants and
! yet no college. Investigations made
| there show that only one-fourth of the
normal number of young men who In
proportion to the population attend
| college go from Scranton and it's neigh
! borhOOd."
Mr. Gates said the influence of the
| various colleges had been carefully cal
| culated. One of the methods of the
! board is to draw circle on the MAJ
with radius of fifty. miles on the
scale and to estimate from the cata
logue Of students how many of then
came to college from within the limi
| circumscribed.
Attention should be especially call
ed" added Mr.. Gates. lin New York
| Pennsylvania and the New England
states to the condition of women's col
leges in that great area. l mean sucl
magnificent institutions as Vassar
Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Wells, Elmira
Smith. Mount Holyoke, Wellesley anC
Radcliffe. Let me say that these insti
| tutions are all crowded to overlooking
| that they are unable to house and car,
for the multitudes of young womel
who are knocking at their doors; tina
| If any one has a daughter whom h
wishes to enter one of these institu
tons it will be necessary for him t
send her name three or four years Il
advance. / myself only the other da,
found 1t necessary to enter the nam
of my young daughter for 1910 in on