The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-08-15


Columbia University trustees. OF New
York City. appears the fact that attend
ance upon that institution from the South
Atlantic States increased last year from
lS5 10 264 and from the South Central
States from So to 80.
In the South Atlantic division the larg-
est number Of students comes from Mary
land. which sends GO. and next comes Vir-
glnia with 40 and Georgia with AZ. This
is about the same ratio as the previous
year, except that there is a greater IN
crease in the number Of students from
Virginia and Georgia.
In the South Central division the great
est increase is in Alabama. from II to 81,
while Tennessee has gone up from TO is.
These figures compare favorably with
ether States as far removed from the in
stitution as the Southern States are.
Facts Are Significant.
These tacts are OF special significance
in the uplift Of the South. They prove
that young men Of energy in the South
are seeking education IN the North in
numbers sufficient 90 make a satisfactory
showing as compared with other sections
OF the country According to this state
ment. 60 young men from Maryland, 40
from Virginia. and Il from Georgia are
enrolled as students In the great seat OF
higher learning IN New York City.
What Is true Of Columbia is probably
true OF other educational institutions In
the Northern States, while everybody
knows that Southern colleges and univer-
stiles. which are patrorized largely by
Southern young men. are all the while
growing IN strength Of attendance, schol-
arship. and educational influence. What
ever the future of the South may be. it
will not lack IN wel-edUCated men TO
carry on its work and become effective
forces IN its society.
Southern educators would probably say
that these young men who are pursuing
their studies at Columbia could do quite
as we'll In their home States which IS
probably true so far as courses OF study
ana facilities for instruction 60; but there
IS a distinct advantage 10 a young man
in pursuing his studies apart from the
home social, political and economic in
fuences. BY so doing he enlarges his field
o. mental vision. RE may find nothing
better in the North than In the South, but
ii is OF a different type. and the learning
OF the things which New Workers do IN
the way they DO them is a distinct ad-
vantage TO a young man In Maryland.
Virginia. and Georgia in the way Of a
broad and liberal education.
Advantage Not Easily Measured.
II would be difficult to measure all the
advantages that would follow from four
years Of residence in the metropolis by a
young man OF good family and thoughtful
tendencies from the South. It would in
itself be in the nature Of a, liberal train
ing His field OF vision would be greatly
enlarged his training would be cosmopol-
itan rather than provincial He would
see life with motives different from those
at home He would feel measurably the
vast energy. capability. and enthusiasm
Of the men who do things well In the big
gest city or this continent. lie would
learn much that the schools of his State
could not teach him and he might miss
much that they would teach him. but the
final result could not be otherwise than
beneficial I'm the association with society
vastly different from that of his native
home
The chances are that after q four years
sojourn In the Northern center OF leaph-
Ing he might return better satisfied With
Maryland. Virginia. and Georgia than he
could have been had he remained az home
for his period Of study He will have a
larger view Of life. larger experience with
the ways Of the world. and be In all re-
spects bigger-minded and possibly bet
ter educated man.
some Would Stay Away.
In some cases, Of course. the going
away TO school breaks the home ties for
ever. Openings for labor occur in the
place OF education, and Maryland, VIZ
GINA, and Georgia loses permanently
good citizen. But at the same time these
States ought 20 win one from the North
who may have gone South TO pursue his
education. so that I'm the evening-up proc
oss the end should make things about
equal.
Forty years ago the tide Of student life
set in toward the English and German
and French schools. The effects OF that
higera OF students 20 Europe has filed
the colleges and universities North and
South with men whose home education
was rounded out and completed In Eu-
rope. 1t has never been controverted that
such training FOR teachers was every way
advantageous.
SO advantageous, indeed. has this dou-
ble-shotted training proved that profess
sors Of colleges and universities generally /
either study at some European seat OF
learning before or after their appointment
20 chairs OF instruction IN this country.
II is the larger view obtained upon the
methods of instruction as well as the
courses OF study that invites scholars
from America to the European schools.
Many times they do not learn solitary
thing they might not learn at home. but
they do get into a new atmosphere where.
TO them. new educational methods are in
vogue and where the early training IN the
American school IS filled out 10 the best
possible purpose abroad
Principle Applies ut Home.
Something like this pertains TO the pur-
suit Of study by the young man at home.
II he goes to another State-from the
South TO the North or vice versatile re-
suit is better training. other things being
equal. He enlarges his mental horizon,
and that. after all, is one OF the big ideas
N liberal education.
To my mind II would be OF advantage in |
many ways II young men Of the South |
more generally went North TO college and !
II the young men OF the North in like !
manner went South to college The young |
men Of the West and those Of the East |
might interchange with equal benefit. and