New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-10

population and wealth are being neglected The an
sieI ana i6 4 Gu ,st5 In the deem Country has
prevailed TO extent so alarming that louty ilS
lie peopie are more ana more hooking, on which
eli interests converge and from WhlGm a. sete5
forces radiating, are almost wholly I neggG.ee
something like four hundred colleges in this coun-
try located in small country towns
Mr.. Gates said that in order to study the edu-
cational needs OF various sections Of the coun-
Try the board drew circles around the place on
the map in which a particular institution was
located and ascertained Just how many pupils
in the institution came from the JO-mile circle
the 100-me circle, and so on. They had
learned. he said, that from 60 to 10 per cent OF
the pupils IN most of the institutions came from
the radius Of one hundred miles. The presence
OF an institution in a community often created
the demand for higher education, he said, and
he argued that there should be a college not
only IN every city Of 100000 inhabitants or
more, but in every territory one hundred miles
square In extent. There are more than forty
such cities IN the United States Mr.. Gates re-
ferred to Scranton, Penn. saying that within a
radius of twenty-five miles of that city there
were 10000 people and no institution of higher
education whatever. This territory has only
one-quarter rs many men going to college as Is
the average in other communities.
Mr.. Gates also spoke of Kansas City, Toledo
Detroit and Louisville 5 examples OF cities
without higher educational advantages. IF you
want men to go to college you want to set 1t
right down among them," he said. Brooklyn
ought to have a college, he said, and he allowed
Il to be inferred that something would be done
there, as well as toward helping the institu-
tions in Manhattan. DR.. Wallace Buttrick. sec
rotary Of the board. said that the only sugges-
lions received so far for Brooklyn We're the in
creasing of the endowment of AdelphI College
and the differentiating Of its collegiate and sec
ondary departments and the establishment on 4
broader and more permanent basis of the Brook
lyn Polytechnic Institute
NO MONEY FOR ENDOWED ACADEMIES.
Mr. Gates said that the General Education Board
had not given penny TO the endowed academy
and probably would not do II had ouuived
its usefulness, he said. and gradually being
crushed between the upper milestone Of the pri-
waite school, where men OF great means preferred
10 send their sons. and the neither milestone
Of the high schools. which in increasing numbers
were fitting young people for college as satisfac-
torily as the endowed academy could do.
Referring TO the overcrowded condition of
wornen's colleges. 70 remedy which the General
Education Board will direct itself at once, either
by the establishment Of others or the enlarge
ment If those now in existence, Mr.. Gates said
they would ask the hearty cooperation not only
Of The special friends Of these colleges but of
phiianthropists generally. He added:
Let the press Of New York. Pennsylvania and
the New England states in particular turn the at
tention of thoughtful and philanthropic men 10 the
condition Of WOmen's colleges In that great
area I mean such magnificent institutions as Y as
sar Bryn Mawr. Barnard. Wells, Radcliffe: ElInlra
Smith. Mount HOlyoke and Wellesley Those IN
stitutions al Of them crowded TO oyerioWing
They are unable 10 mouse ana care l4I Ile
tUdes of young women who are knocking at their
doors. II any one has daughter whom ne wishes
sary for him TO send her name three or four years
IN advance. I myself only the other day found 1t
IN, r1rp he nan %
for 1910 in one OF these colleges in order to have
the least assurance That she would be ADMITTED and
obliged To accompany her name with an en-
trance fee. ~
debatable It has settled itself by the necessities
~ lie case The mems colleges are crowded. The
7vomens colleges are oyercrowded and there IS
absolutely no economical advantage Whatever IN
uniting them This is particularly true IN the
states am now considering, namely, the Middle
and New England states
Speaking Of the necessity for interesting phi
. lanthropists generally in wOmen's colleges, Mr.
Gates said he wanted TO refer TO a fact generally
overlooked. He said:
Colleges for men. when they have been founded
for generation or two, safely rely upon their
alumni TO do small part Of the work OF increas-
times for no college can keep up to the times
less its resources are heavily increased annually
But the aiumnae OF the wornens GoAeges are nor
money makers Ihey either enter literature or the
teaching profession, or else they marry. If they
and. IL their husbands are wealthy, these
husbands very certain to give their money to
lege. The women's colleges are therefore, help
less Let philanthropists recognize this, and par
ticuIarly phanthropists who are not committed
irrevocably to some particular college from which
they have graduated.
Mr. Gates said the reason the board had not
turned his attention TO women's colleges before
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