Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-01
The Morrill, Acts.

terest of George Washington, is aiding the
effort which is being made to have Con-
gress extend the Morrill, acts to cover the
District, delivered an address which stir
red the enthusiasm of the graduates. DR..
Harlan gave a history of the Morrill, acts.
He said that in the closing hours OF
the last Congress a bill, the Gallinger
amendment to the Morrill, acts. extend
ing these benefits TO the District, had
been unanimously passed by the Senate.
The time remaining before adjournment
was too short, however, for the House
to act upon the bill. DR.. Harlan de-
clared his belief that the Gallinger
amendment, which has been reintroduced
in the Senate. win pass botn houses this
coming session with flying colors.
why should not the District of Co
lumbia have the benefits of these acts,
when every other state and territory has
Them" asked DR.. Harlan. Porto Rico
and Hawaii have these benefits and they
are no more worthy than the District.
You graduates of the university can do
much to aid in the fight for the benefits
which, if obtained, will place this uni
versity upon a rock base. By the Nelson
amendment to the Morrill, acts there Is
paid to each state and territory $4,000
year to be used in the maintenance of
colleges of agriculture and the mechanic
arts. This is increased each year by
5000 until the sum of $5O,WD is reached.
Each state and territory will receive $780,
600 this year under this act.
George Washington Beneficiary.
Fortunately there is no dssension in
the District over the institution which Is
to be benefited by the extension Of these
acts to cover the National Capital. George
Washington is recognized as the only
available institution for these benefits,
since it alone has established already the
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Morrill, acts. Then, too. the university is
non-sectarian. OF course, Congress might
provide the money for the establishment
of new institution of learning here and
give it the benefits of the Morrill, acts.
but such a course would mean the ex-
penditure of great sum of money to
bring into being an institution when there
is suitable institution already estab-
lished.'
DR. Harlan urged the graduates TO make
appeals to the different members of Con-
gress, particularly those graduates who
still retained their voting residences in
the states.
EDWIN c. Brandenburs, the retiring
president of the Alumni Association, made
his report to the graduates, covering the
last two years. He said in part:
President Brandenburg's Report.
LET us urge as a body the authorities
of the university to exert every possible
effort toward securing site readily ac-
cessible to the center of business which
shall command sufficient ground for its
buildings and at the same time provide
ample campus as well athletic grounds
OF reasonable proportions. To this end
let every alumnus of this institution put
his shoulder to the wheel and aid the
authorities In such an undertaking. and,
when once obtained, pledge his loyal sup
port both by way Of his financial assist
nv a ba
of intelligent men and women of means,
who out Of their abundance will be suffi-
ciently munifcent and patriotic to lend
their assistance i'll the upbuilding of a
monument to their memory which will
long Outlive this generation.
80 tar as the instruction given at the
university is concerned, it is today the
equal of that given by any institution in
the land, and We except none. Our facul-
ty Is composed of men of great learning,
and constituting as they do men whose
profession is that of teaching as well as
those in the active walks of life, both in
medicine, law. architecture, engineering
and the like, the student body of this in
stftution secures a breadth of instruction
both Of theoretical and practical char
acter that Is unsurpassed.
A Plea for Harmony.
1T would be idle for us to ignore the
fact that some time since there was
more or less internal disagreement in the
administration of the affairs of the uni
versity, which has been kept alive by
friends OF the various parties. 1t would
be eminently uniting for us to discuss
the merits or dement's OF this contro-
versy. That 1t has to an extent hurt our
alma mater cannot be denied. While the
registration of this year Is slightly less
than that Of the past year. there is no
reason why ii should not have been from
three to five hundred in excess of what
il is but for this disagreement and the
attendant controversy.
While the controversy ragged warm in
stead OF proving beneficial 20 any one, the
university has been the sufferer and has
been ground between the inner and the
neither millstones. Let the alumni Of this
university call a halt and discourage all
public discussion in the press and at the
LclIths of Disbursements between faculty