The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11
BISHOP GAMBLER FEARS
GREEKS BEARING GIFTS
He Calls The Rockefeller Money to Institutions OF
Learninq-He Calls it Dangerous Donations and
Degrading OoIes or a Vast Scheme For Cap
turing and Controlling the Colleges and
Universities of the Country
BISHOP WARREN h, GAMBLER Of THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH

less that which they esteem SO lightly
may be doing a work which Will Sc
riously affect for good or i'll every COM
merciaI enterprise in the land, not to
speak of the interests OF higher value
than material things.
The nations of Europe understand
all this better than do our people. They
have experimental with educational
Institutions for centuries, and they
know What comes of such influential
plants.
When England wished to insure her
dominion in Normandy she founded
the University Of Caen in 1895, and
achieved by it vastly more tina it cost
her.
When Spain desired to consolidate
the Netherlands she established the
University Of Douay in 1872, and with
It h achieved results that still abide
Notwithstanding all the political
changes and social mutations which
have come TO pass in the course of
more thar three centuries.
After the battle Of Jena, Germany
set about healing the political bruises
and military wounds inflicted upon her
in h a disastrous defeat by founding
the University of Berlin in 1910. NJ.
Ernest Lavisse has related most inter
estingly the story of its foundation. He
says the King of Prussia, Frederick
William. declared as the reason for it's
establishment. 1T is necessary that the
State supply by its intellectual forces
the physical pOWer which it has lost. -
The great Schleirnacher supported the
project enthusiastically and most
clearly forecast its future. He said,
When that scientific organization is
founded, it Will have no equal; thanks
to its interior forces, it will exercise its
benevolent rule to the borders or the
Prussian monarchy. Berlin will be-
come the center of the entire inteliec-
tual activity of Northern and Protes-
tant Germany, and a solid Foundation
will be prepared for the accomplish
ment of the mission assigned to the
Prussian government His words were
most accurately fulfilled. The Univer-
sity of Berlin more than any one
thing united and invigorated the new
Germany With which Napoleon III had
to settle in 1870.
Think Of the proposition! To elevate
n Kingdom Of Prussia and unity
the Germin Empire by establishing q
school. Our practical men, would
laugh at such an idea; but the more
pTactlcal German authorities knew
What they We're doing. The event has
sighted proposal. Berlin has become
the scientific and political center of
the German people. With it's great
university it is the very heart of the
nations life, and its influence is felt
throughout the world. Our own edu-
cational Institutions have not ESCAPED
the Influence Of the University Of
Berlin.
Again after the overwhelming defeat
of Napoleon III in 1870 by the unified
n renovated German nation, Bis
marck undertook the Commanding Of
Alsace-Lorraine by completely recon
structing the University of StraSbourg
We thus see that both to retrieve a
defeat and to confirm a victory lon
headed Germany established a new
educational plant. And IN both in
stances she has not been d~isappointed
in the outcome.
When the great Liberal party in
Belgium in 1884 sought to battle sue
cessfully with its foes, who were oper-
ating so aggressively through the Uni
VerSitieSIOf Liege and Gand Cor Client
as the city is called in English), il
founded the University of Brussels.
Oxford University has been tho
breeding ground of Tories and Toryisn
for generations. and the Wings ir
1928 set up the University of Londor
with the purpose of offseting if posi-.
bic the political influence of Oxford.
In our own country a history was
enacted towards the close Of the
eighteenth century which emphasizes
IN a striking ann the power of the
colleges The institutions Of learning
] then existing in the young Republic
We're few and comparatively feeble,
but becoming infected with infide1ifI
! they threatened the religious life @