The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-10

be set aside as fund to be paid back
to him when he gets his diploma or
title in the peerage of farmers. At
graduation every apprentice will re-
ceive a lump sum of 5000.
On some of the farms dormitories
with modern conveniences will be
furnished. On others apprentices will
live with the manager in a family
group. There will be abundance of
good reading in addition to libraries
on agricultural topics Besides farm
training the apprentices will take
regular courses at the university,
mainly in the winter months.
This departure by the University
Of Chicago is due to the fact that
the owners of specialized farms
throughout America desire expert
advice, efficient farm managers and
a high grade of student labor.
Aims to Lead the World.
simultaneously with the decision
of the university to go into farming
Mr.. Rockefeller increased all univer-
sity salaries. The trustees had told
him that graduates of the guild could
command salaries of $500 to $4,000
a year as managers of specialized
farms. That made 1t appear ridicu-
lous that the professors who builded
such money earning machines should
receive only $1,000 to $4,000 a year;
hence, the advance all around The |
increase was a horizontal one of %
per cent. For sixteen years the pro-
fessors had struggled along against |
the wolf at the door without any
more pay than was offered when Mr.. |
Rockefeller founded the institution. |
Smaller universities and colleges
paid more. Now, however, Chicago's !
schedule outranks all except Har-
wards.
The Chicago University expects to
make further increases until it's sal
aries exceed those of any other uni
versity in the world. It's ambition is
to become the worlds greatest and |
most thorough seat of learning, with |
the foremost professors or all ma
tions in its faculty. Although only
a few years old it is already a giant. |
1t has thirty-one immense buildings,
and is planning to erect twenty-three
more. Two of these, the hall of clas-
steal languages and the general Ii |
brary, a memorial to DR.. VIM. R. !
Harper, the dead president, are to
be constructed Immediately, the |
funds having been subscribed
There is common impression
that the university is a Baptist in
stitutiOn and that it was built who'll
ly by Mr.. Rockefeller This is an
error. 1t has outgrOwn its sectarian-
ism. Mr.. Rockefeller has given it
the triie of $23,515,392, and has
pledged 100000 more; but, alto
gether, more than 5000 persons
have contributed money or land to
make the school what it is now. The |
growth of the university has been |
remarkable. 1t opened its doors in !
1892 with sos students; in 1906 it |
had 5,079, and in this school year
lit had nearly 5000. On the campus
it has schools that develop pupils |
from the first grade above kinder |
garten to the highest degrees. Its
daily paper goes to 1000 high
schools every morning; also to a
large number of subscribers. 1t con-
ducts college courses by mail and
maintains a public lecture system.
| 1t is affiliated with many other in
stitutiOns and cO-Operates with all.
This summer the university is 60
| ing into the business of making
mayors and aldermen. 1t will es-
tablish a municipal government of
its own that it may the better teach
practical politics.