Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-03
Municipal Colleges.

The same idea and historical tendency
expresses itself in the erection of mu-
nfcipal, colleges. which naturally followed
| the great growth of American cities.
New York has rebuilt her City College at
| public expense and supports 1t literally
| by annual appropriations from the city
| treasury Cincinnati is the first to MAIN
tain fully organized university. Other
| cities that are not yet relieved of this
duty by privately endowed institutions
| are planning to do the same thing. Where
! inadequately endowed private institutions
exist the tendency is to consolidate them
| and supplement their resources by taxes.
! better institutions resulting through the
| union Of private and public support Such
was the method OF Cincinnati. In the
newer cities. where no colleges exist.
| wholly new institutions doubtless will be
! founded under municipal auspices.
| THE history of the University of Gin
cinnati is especially Interesting to the
student of educational matters from the
| fact that. while 1t was originally a private
foundation and has always been supported
largely by private gifts. ii has, In later
days. received public support in the form
| Of municipal tax. Counting all buttons.
| one-half of the funds used by the whole
| university this year was derived from pri-
vate endowment and private sources.
| while the other ha'f came from the city.
This is an ideal plan and. since we. edu-
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people. We have right to look to the
city for liberal appropriation for gen.
eral support and maintenance"
! You argue that it is the duty Of cities
| as well states to include universities In
| their educational systems?'
Duty Of the Cities.
Every center of population should
maintain>a university" replied President
| Dabney. To-day many large cities are
served by privately supported and man
| aged institutions. New York has Column
bia as we'll az her city college Harvard
| is practically in Boston. as are the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology and
| Boston University. Washington Uniyer-
| sity s in ST. Louis. Pennsylvania Is in
| Philadelphia. Tulane in New Orleans and
| George Washington University in Wash
| ington. Chicago has the institution
named for II and also the Northwestern.
| In the community of Cincinnati are 800.
! mO people. yet 1t is an almost infinites!-
NAL part of its young men and women
that find the money to go to the old ex-
| pensive colleges Of the east. Far. far too
| few study in the universities sup
! ported by their own or other states. yet
comparatively many parents could give
their children time for higher education
! IL only the expense could be minimzed
! by the young people living at home. We
| have agreed that there should be no limit
| to the extension OF higher education
| among he people. Therefore, IL the young
people cannot go to the colleges the col
1 leges must come to them. The largest
| mass of students in all the universities
| in the country come from their immedI-
ate vcinifies. Columbia students. there
fore. are largely New Workers.. Wherever
there is a large aggregation OF American
| cit items there ought to be full, complete
! facilities for education. There should be
a modern university in every city big
enough to support one.
| 1T is an economic question. 1t g GER
/ tain that the earning power Of COM
munity is directly proportional to the
| amount and character Of the education
! it's people have received And education
| Is also a political question. Political in
te!ligence and political morality depend
| on a peoples schools. Through all these
| influences education is an historical ques-
| ton. The whole d development of the peo-
| pie. as expressed in their literature. in
| situations and arts. Is determined by their
system Of education. 1t has to do Wit h
| tie whole life Of the people. not merely
with the so-called intellectual life The
school develops the phys cal moral ana
| lectual 1t promotes health and morals
as we'll as knowledge and power. Edu-
cation has to do with social groups. whole
| communities with nations: not with
| few individuals merely. 1t IS the untold
| ing of the life Of the whole people and its
deva opment cannot be broken.
Tho modern university is conscious of
| this 1t feels itsalf an institution to cor
| relate and stimulate in all Ines II Its
| peoples activity The various colleges
| and departments of tho university are
now something more than schools for
| ira ming literary men engineers. doc
| tors and lawyers Each of IT,. m is also
an organ for strengthening department
| of life and all combined. they force for
ward the whole development of the peo-
| pie.
What Is Done for Cincinnati.