The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-02
PRESIDENT KELLY
ON EDUCATIONAL
WORK OF FR|E NOS
Continued From Page One.)

or any subject"
In America, as has already been
said. Friends had no provision one
hundred years ago for the higher edu-
cation. In this respect they were be-
hind other religious denominations
The Puritans had founded Harvard in
1923, the Congregationalists Yale il
1iO1, the Episcopalians Kings College.
now Columbia, in 1874, the Presbyteri-
ans. Princeton in 1746. The UNIVERSE
ty OF Pennsylvania had been founded
in 1749 but its founder was Benjamin
Franklin. Furthermore the Puritans
had had system of Public Education
for 80 years while the Dutch in New
York, had had a liberal policy con-
corning common schools. President
Sharpless asserts that there was no
external reason why the Quaker Col
lege of 100 should not have been cs-
tablished. There was far more suffi-
Gent numerical background than the
Puritans had when they founded Har-
vard.' This failure of Friends 70
grasp their opportunity was due for
the most part, perhaps, to an unfortu-
nate and almost fatal misinterpretation
of their cardinal principle as a society
the immediate revelation of divine
truth AS is well known. the early
colleges in America were established
with the purpose of training an edu-
Gated ministry. Friends did not feel
the need of an educated ministry. In
fact, many Friends actually felt that
the education of the schools would be
a hindrance to the free course of the
spirit in the hearts and minds of those
called to this holy calling. The cruder
the vessel the sweeter and purer the
water Of life. They wished to hear
the voice of the Lord and they feared
that the educated minister might de-
pend upon his own wisdom. The
principal motive therefore. for the es-
tablishment of colleges being absent
no steps We're taken in this direction.
This conscious discouraging of higher
education is still to be found among
US in some quarters today, so that to
quote President Sharpless again. "all
through our history the shores of our
society have been strewn with the
wrecks of great men," In fact, that
Friends have not held their own in the
development of this country and OF
England is due--tO an unwllllngnesS
to use the mental powers of their best
men in shaping policy and in meeting
demands of the future The newt
able result of this policy was weakness
and suspicion and intolerance and sep
aration.
Haverforo's Founding.
Our first college. Haverford, was
founded in 1920. and not being associ-
ated organically with any Friends
Meeting it was free to cultivate the
academic spirit. Later, other colleges
We're founded, so that there are now
l. colleges in America under control
of Friends. During the last half cen
tury. we certainly have made COM
mendable progress in this long neglect
ed field. These colleges represent an
investment OF not less than S1O.5OO,0o0,
and all of them rank we'll in their re-
spective communities. Among them
is the leading graduate college for wo-
men IN this country (Bryn Mawrt while
| another (Haverford) has recently re
ceived very conspicuous praise from
the Carnegie Foundation for the ad'
| vancement of teaching for the stress
they have been placing and are placing
on the selection and compensation OF
| their faculty Two or three others
more than meet all the requirements
laid down by the General Educationa
Board for a college of the first rank
| But Friends influence in higher ed
ucation has not been confined by any
means to the institutions controlled by
them AS has already been said. EZ
ra Cornell was a Friend. and Cornet
University was the pioneer, and is the
typical university in America advc
| eating and illustrating the doctrine o
democracy Of studies. Another grea
American university is typical. l re
fer to Johns Hopkins. No UNIVERSITY
in our country has done so much fo1
the higher scholarship. The Friends
who founded it and the Friends wht
have determined its policy, have rem
dered a conspicuous service indeed, II
making it possible for aspiring stu
dents to pursue advanced studies un
der the most favorable conditions with
out crossing the Atlantic. America
has several great graduate universities
now. but it was Johns Hopkins which
gave the first impulse in that direc
ton. Another Friend. Francis I
King, of the Board of Trustees o
Johns Hopkins, is entitled to the credi
of being the founder of the Johns HOP
kins hospital, without doubt. | think
the greatest American hospital
Friends, also. have exerted much influ
ence at Brown. Moses Brown. tn
founder of the Moses Brown School o
Providence. was a point founder
the university also. President w. II
Faunce has recently written me. "a
Brown we are required by charter t
have five Friends on our Board o
Trustees and these five have Away
been influential in our counsels.
William jackson Palmer.
1t is probably not generally know
that the founder of Colorado College
at Colorado Springs, William jackson
Palmer. was a member of Race Stree
Monthly Meeting. Philadelphia, an
was a man at the same time OF grea