Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
graduate or postgraduate work, including

scientific COilectlonS- apparatus ana laDOr-
atories-which, perhaps could never be du-
plicated in an educational institution at
any locality. even at the expenditure of
many millions of dollars-would offer ex-
traordinary advantages to the advanced
student in applied science. Independently of
the Libraries. laboratories, etc, of the uni
versity itself
Development of Great Schools.
quite unique is the opportunity pre-
scented at the seat of the general govern
ment for the development of really great
schools of the political sciences, jurispru-
dence. diplomacy and international law. I
am glad to learn that your trustees expect
to make such schools as these the leading
departments of the enlarged George Wash
ington University. If your new college or
political sciences and your department of
law (Which would embrace all the subjects
just mentioneD can be munifcently en-
dowed and equipped, and manned by the
ablest teachers to be found in this country
or abroad, the George Washington Uni
versity would attract advanced students
from every state in the Union and. to some
extent, from other parts of North and
South America.
The bureau of American republics
whose work and influence are now to be
greatly widened by the recent liberal action
of Congress a1d by Mr.. Carnegie's wise
munihcence. which assure to it conspicuous,
permanent and well-equipped offices in this
ci!y-WlIl unuOuDleIlN DEln0 tIie Two ENluel-
icas into increasingly cordial, reciprocal
relations: and the enlarged George Wash
inston University might properly expect
in time. to attract a goody number OF able
Young men from ali parts of Latin America.
Washington is rapidly approaching the
point when. in large sense. it Will be the
educational well as the political capital
of the nation. Witness the Smithsonian
Institution. the bureau of educa ton and
the great scientific and technical bureaus
of the general government: witness the Car
nege Institution CT Washington and the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching whose PRINCIPAL ohces are 10
be removed to WashingtOn: witness the in
crease in the number of scientific and lit
erary men residing at the capital.
University for Graduate Work.
THE one thing lacking in this much
desired direction is the development of a
great university for graduate work. along
the lines in which the capital of the nation
offers such unique advantages.
Il congratulate your university upon its
unsectar.an, comprehensive and elastic
charter and upon the solid grounds already
given for believing that the citizens of the
capital Will show their great civic pride by
supplying Il splendid site for institution
bearing the name of George Washington.
When it comes to the additional build
ingS and endowment that will be needed by
the enlarged George Washington University
| believe that there are many patriotic men
and women throughout the land who will
deem it a privilege to become. in that way.
the executors of the last will and testament
of the father Of his country.
lone great state in tie Union and towns
and counties innumerahle throughout the
land have been named in homo" of Wash
ington. a colossal shaft of white marble,
fit symbol of the purity an! dignity of his
character, is his special memorial domi-
mating the beautiful city bearing his name.
prr. tI1E.r tho f,1 e
the nation-the one monument of himself
that he most desired. and for which he
may be said to have provided in his
last will-still remains unbuilt. Has not
the nation reached that stage in the devel-
opment of its national CONSEQUENCES and it's
sense of unity when what has been apty
called 'Washington's University should at
last be created?
mitted to do whatI can to help bring such
inspiring program to the attention of
the American people"
Meeting Tomorrow Evening.
The meeting to be held tomorrow even
ing in President Needhams office will be
called to order at $50 o'clock. when it is
expected that Prof. Mitchell Carroll. who
is in general charge of the movement, will
be prepared to outline tentative plan for
soliciting subscriptions throughout the
country. The university authorities be
lieve that the response from patriotic
Americans will be prompt and generous.
Wish of First President
George Washington, in his last will and
testament, written in his own hand and
executed on the 9th of July, 1899, said:
1T has been my ardent wish to See a
plan devised. on a liberal scale. which
would have tendency to spread sys-
tematic ideas through all parts of this
rising empire, thereby TO do away with
local attachments and state prejudices las
far as the nature of things would or in
deed ought. to admit from national
councils.
Looking anxiously forward to the ac-
complishment of SO desirable an object as
this is lin my stimaton). my mind has
not been able to contemplate any plan
more likely to effect the measure than the
establishment of a university in q central
part of the United States. to which the
youths of fortune and talents from all
parts thereof might be sent. for the COM
pletion of their education in all the
branches of polite literature. in the arts
and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in
the principles of politics and good govern
ment: and as a matter of infinite inn
portance, in my Judgment. by assocating
with each other, and forming friendships
in juvenile years, be enabled to free them
selves in proper degree from those local
prejudices and habitual jealousies which
have Just been mentioned and which,
when carried to excess are never-failing
sources of disqu!etude to the public mind
and pregnant with mischievous conse-
quences to this country"
Well Deserves Attention.
In a speech to both houses of Congress,
December =. 1896. President Washington
said:
Among the motives to such. an institu-
ton. the assimilation of the principles opin-
ions and manners of our countrymen, by
the common education of a portion of our
youth from every quarter. well deserves
attention. The more homogeneous our cit
liens can be made in these particulars the
greater will be our prospect of permanent
union; and primary object of such ma
tional institution should be the education
of our youth in the science of government
I'm republic what species of knowledge
can be equally important, and what duty
more pressing on its legislature than to
patroniZe a plan for communicating it to
those who are to be the future guardians of
the liberties Of the country?'
Again, writing from Philadelphia to the
commissioners of the Federal District, jan
uary %. 1895, Washington said:
The federal city, from It's centrally and
the advantages which in other respects it
must have over any other place in the
United States, ought to be preferred as q
proper site for such university"
What President Roocval+ Gave