The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-08
Some Interesting Recent
 Movements in Higher Education

great work of evangeiization, and at the same time compete with so great an institution. Bright broad-viewed young men naturally sought the broadest. best education, and felt that Cambridge offered them the best op- portunity. The influence of the An Siican church was of course para mount there, and there was q ten dency for Wesleyan boys to forsake the church of their fathers. The Wes- teyans therefore built the Leys School at Cambridge, where Wesleyan boys could be under Wesleyan Influence. and yet have all the advantages of the university In doing this they were only falling in line with what the Con gregationaiists and Unitarians have done at Oxford,
 Let us take another example. The people of Australia in the midst Of the progress which that continent of rhe southern seas has been making in recent years, had to face the problem of higher education. The churches were. not ready to turn the matter entirely over to the State Competi- ton by number of small institu- tons. on the, other hand, with meagre equipment. may be the life of trade, but 1t Is death to the broadest best education Each church could not es- tablish a well-endowed institution. and at the same time do It's work Of generalization and pastoral care. and iI they could what use could there be n multiplying agencies when the State duptcating rich gifts was ready to do that very work? Their solution was as Ioiiows; At Sidney and Melburne, diff ferent denominations-the Presby- terians, AnElicans, Methodists,. and catholics (think of the combination)- nave established colleges on the unlversity grounds. These colleges are for residential. students. ana in them the students are under the direct influence of the religious denomtna lions by whom the college was found Cd. The university has no other rela- tion with religious bodies but in these coheges systematic religious fnstruc- s.,l slon ana supervision are given. (David e'anr .,,, Sordan In November Appleton's.)
 The North Dakota churches farad similar situation. as indeed do tha rehgious bodies In most of our States some or the leaders felt that "thosa who found the State unfyersifv srS those who found the church colle~es are one and the same people. ana t6at their sons and daughters who are ex- norteo 70 attend the church schools for religious advantages, and urged fo at- tend the State university beoauSs ~ superior equipment. since the schooIs are a hundred miles apart, must re- ject one to attend the other. The oues- ton therefore arose, 'swhy moi rnaLa them one hundred wards instead of one hundred miles apart" The pian for nnally aEreeed upon isfexpressed in the following 8
 Memorandum: of a couversattor held between President MerrineId of the University of North Dakota ana President Robertson of the Red River Valley University with reference to d tentative plan of co-0peration between the State university and the educatioai institution of the Methodist Church in North Dakota.
 Whereas. the State university is in theory the university of all the people of the State. and 10 supported hy the taxes of the members of the several -den0minations as we'll as by the other