Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
NEW COLLEGE PLAN
Germany Proposes to Have
Colonial University.
IDEA IS PRACTICAL ONE
Preparations for Festival Season at
Bayreuth Under Way.
FROM JULY 90 TO AUGUST 20
Nuremberg Teacher has Scheme to
Operate Crewless War Vessel
From a Distance.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Spec Cablegrsm TO The Star
BERLIN, July 1J.-The immense growth
II Germany's industrial and financial pow
sr has made it evident to the educational
authorities that the present twenty-one
universities, which for centuries have ex
listed n Germany, are no longer able to
cope with the enormous task of educating
q host of young men who are to support
and carry forward in the future the move
men. which has made Germany great,
and to which the empire owes its present
world influence far more than to it's
powerful army and navy. The great
leaders of finance in Frankfurt-on-the-
Main and the merchant princes of Ham
burg want TO bring up and train the
young men who are TO succeed them in
their own way. and before long both of
these progressive cities will have univer-
stiles peculiarly suited TO the demands of
modern times.
The plan which has been outlined for
the proposed university OF Hamburg is
exceedingly interesting, the idea being to
found the first colonial university the
world has ever seen. There Will be four
faculties. as usual in Germany. Prussia
insists upon a school of law. sOrely
against the grain of the practical Ham
burgers-who think there are lawyers
eHcug0 as IL 1S-dnQ lnefe Will De TWO
''philosophicar faculties mental and
natural science), but the fourth faculty.
that of colonial science, is to be the glory
of the university and to give the new
seat of learning its characteristic note
Those who object may think that the
undertaking is rather IKE putting roof
ON house before the walls are standing
but the Hamburgers who practically
made the German colonies, think other
wise. and We may rest assured that Ham
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established fact, and that nothing that
The public spirit and munificence of her
merchant princes can do 10 insure its
success will be left undone.
Excited Over Pastors Removal.
Ecclesiastical circles in Prussia are
greatly excited by a decision In the high
est church court removing Pastor Carl
Jatho from his Office as clergyman of
one OF the congregations of the National
Evangelical Church at Cologne. During
Pastor Jatho's twenty years in Cologne
he has greatly endeared himself to his
congregation by his amlable bearing and
by the energy and devotedness with
which he conducts his ministerial work
but. on the other hand. he has during
the last ten years given deep offense to
many by the preaching of sermons which
are regarded as wholly at variance with
the creeds OF the National Protestant
Churcn.
He denies the existence of a personal
God. questions the existence of a future
state. does not regard Christ as divine
and removes everything supernatural
from religion. Orthodox churchmen. in
censed by his somewhat militant unbe-
lief. brought the case before the highest
courts OF the church. sitting i'm Berlin
The court consisted of thirteen members
assisted by Prof. Harnack as theological
assessor, and by great majority sem
fenced Pastor Jatho to deprivation of
his ONCE as clergyman within the Ma
tional Church
In all probability Pastor Jatho will con-
tinue TO be supported by his late congre-
cation, and will continue to minister to
them in some secular building but he is
apparently not the man who has any de-
sire to pose as martyr. Some OF his
best friends think he would have been
wise to leave the church. with the tenets
Of which he was not in accord The de-
- cision to eject Pastor Jatho will stir up