Arizona republican., 1911-05-28
Why Not the University of Arizona

Why Not the University of Arizona
 According to a dispatch from New York to the Los Angeles Examiner Mrs. Edward II. Hartman, America s richest woman, has decided to use a large portion of the wealth left by her late husband in founding or endowing d great university in the west. We quote from the dispatch:
 Some of the millions bequeathed to her by the master railroad builder and increased by her wise investments in profitable securities, are to be de- voted to the cause of higher educa- ton after the manner of her husband's s predecessor in the Southern Pacific presidency, who founded the Leland Stanford Junior University at Palo Alto.
 Tt became known today that Mrs Hartman, casting about for some means of disbursing her great fortune in a way that would be of benefit to the people of the country, had decided upon the establishment of an institu- ton of learning as affording the best medium for such disbursement.
 Her plans are not fully developed but in a tentative way she has decided to found a university that will be second to none in the country in point of curriculum and endowment suffi- cient to maintain it.
 The equal of Harvard, Yale and all the other great universities of the land, it will be lacking in nothing that money can supply in the way of equipment and teaching force and facilities for carrying on the work of instruction in all literary. scientific and technical branches'
 Millions, as needed will be sup piled from the Hartman estate to make this the greatest educational enterprise in the world.
 ''The institution will be given the name of her husband, and will be the Edward H Hartman Univer- sity.' It will be builded as a monu- ment to the great power and industry that made him the wizard of the rail- road world, and as tribute of de- votion from the one who loved him best
 Mrs. Hartman has ample means to found an institution that will easily surpass any that are now in exist ence, and she has indicated that she will expend nearly all of this great wealth upon the university which will carry the Hartman name to future generations and his fortune to the upbuilding of American men and women.
 Tt will be her life task, as his was that of taking puny and ineffective lines of railroad and moulding them into matchless systems girdling the continent"
 Taking it for granted that the report is true, the Examiner assumes that the university to be founded by Mrs. {, Hartman will be in California or Ne vada- But why should this conclu- {. sion follow? California has already 1 two great universities, the State uni {; versity at Berkeley, splendidly SUD- i ported by the state and generously | helped by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, and : the Leland Stanford, Jr. university at : Palo Alto. California, therefore, would 1 appear to be well supplied with uni- ; versailles. If Mrs. Hartman is really | thinking of devoting her vast wealth . to the upbuilding of a great univer- sity in the far west, Arizona, above ! all other states, would most likely DC ! selected.
 Arizona is destined to be one of the , great states of the American Union. The university already established at Tosuc is a creditable institution. Not withstanding our small population. the Arizona university will compare fla vorably with many of the universities of the older states. The Arizona uni versity is located at Tucson. one of the most beautiful and attractive cities of the west. To make the uni- versity of Arizona equal to the best in the country, the chief requisite is an adequate endowment fund.
 Fortunately again assuming that the report of Mrs Harrimans inten- tions is true) Arizona is perhaps bet ter situated than any western state to secure exceptionally friendly consid- eration from Mrs. Hartman. Gifted as few men are with foresight and imagination, Edward H. Hartman.