Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-19
TIME Is COMING FOR
 \ GREAT NATIONAL SEAT OF LEARNING
Fond Dream of George Wash ington May Take Sub
 Stantial Fom Soon
fAvoRs PLAN


 WASHINGTON, April 1s.-A move ment for the establishment Of al great national university in Wash ington. the nations capital. is now on. It is believed that the time is propiuous for pushing the project to a conclusion. It has focused the attention Of the educational world, has ample financial support, ap-I parently. and announcement of the initial organization may be expected at any time.
 William J. Bryan, Andrew Carne- gle and Dr. Andrew H. White, for mer president of Cornell university, are among those interested in the project. Reports are among those interested in the project as the opening endowment of the instit,i- ton. Washington educators have received authentic information that MT. Carnegie looks upon the project with fayor
 Wish of Washington.
 One of the strongest desires ex- pressed by George Washington in the manuscripts which are now q part of the national archives was that the nation should have a great seat of learning in it's capital city. He was a firm believer in edU- cation as a solvent of the prob lens Of popular government, ano he frequently declared that a great university. founded on AmeISca1. Ideals, would be the strongest pos sible safeguard against a tendency toward HIonarchism, on the one hand or E5ob rule on the other.
 There have been many attempts to found a national university fin Washington, but all of them have met with failure. due to the refusal of congress to finance them. Private benetactions have also made efforts in the same direction, but never with success. At the present time there is no great institution of learning in the capital, although both the Catholic and Methodist universities viii rank with the great universities in a few years.
 The Place Is Ready.
 Often l have spoken to groups of men in various parts of the United States said Dr. Andrew D. White. about a great university in th city of Washington. The place is ready for it. Almost eveiyunlns needed for it's equipment. is there libraries, laboratories, collections il frustrating every branch of science, and many great teachers and men CT research. All of these, with the addition of a great teaching universi- ty would make 1t one of the nouIesl institutions in the world It would have as its right wing, the grand old University of Virginia and as it's left wing the Johns Hopkins un- iversity. of Baltimore, each of these preserving its identity, at the same time strengthening the other
 Bring Sections Together. T shall not speak of the vast opportunities for such an !nstitu- A it, as regards science, literature. and art, but that which I consider the most important ;bing Is that 1t would bring here throngs of the most promising young men from the south and the north. and thus ac- complish the purpose of which Wash ingtOn spoke when he endeavorea to establish a university here-the 1 tringing together of young men from all sections of the union, who would here form lifelong friend ships. and carry with them back 10 their homes a strong influence against provincialism and narrow ness"
 This statement of Dr. Whites em phasizes the educational facilities which the government itself offers for scientific and legal research ir Washington. Probably no othel city. with the exception of the grea, capitals of Eurore, can compare with Washington in the extent O it's libraries, it's scientific laborator AN1r AA1 GA AAHAAE AOo0AbAAAAAEo- A' congressional library is now th' third library of the world, bein; surpassed in size only by the Bibli otheque Rationale. of Paris, ant the British Museum. 1t is growins al such a rapid rate that it il only a question of few years wher it will surpass both of these in stitutions in the quantity of book and manuscripts stored in it stalls.
 Great Opportunity.
 The new Nsuonal Museum offer . the largest opportunity in tn United States for the student O archaeology, anthropology. or eth , noiogy. It is also a great nfstorica museum. The laboratories of tn
 derartment of agrieulture. organ f1od bv 4ha hs,roat OF animal in