Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-09
lBy Herbert Temple ]

s,ohe oi new university near tn imposing old structure of the British Museum the event will mark the he ginning of a new era in English Col lege Education. The new universit, Will not, like it's famous older prede cessors Oxford and Cambridge. b, academical. The aeademical idea i. dying even in conservative old Eng land, as surely as it did long ago il America. The new London university. object, will be to educate practica men instead of mere bookworms.
 Many years ago, in 1874 to be ev. act, Matthew Arnold said that Eng lands greatest need was for better educational organization.
 Time has proved the truth of this statement which was then ridiculed here while it was immediately realiz- ed i'll other European countries and first of all in the United States
 The last decade of the nineteenth
 
 ondary and technical education, and the first decade of the twentieth has seen the growth of a movement for a revival of the universities as the training grounds for. the great men, that is to say, the practical men of the future, movement which has I,, >a,,fcs ,f Tho Congress of the Universities of the Empire, whic his to be held in Lon don this summer, marks the move ment's wider significance.
 Nor have the old universities stood still Oxford and Cambridge have raised great sums of money for en- larging and improving their equip ment, and spent an infinity of talk, and some amount of action in reform ing themselves from within. Cecil Rhodes, half man of action and half idealist, greatly widened the influence of Oxford by the introduction of his scholars. Ruskin College and the Workers Educational Association are doing the same thing in another way. As for Scotland, she has shown no need of new universities. For cen- turies they have been amongst her most treasured national possessions. And that perhaps, is why England is governed so largely by Scotland, and why, when Lord Roseberry travelled round the Empire, he reported that wherever he had come upon good thing, he@found a Scotchman sitting beside it, but the Scottish universi- ties have not been left out of the movement. An American millionaire, seeing no room for universities in his native land, has showered his bene- factions upon the old ones. Whether MT. Carnegie's millions might have been better employed upon the same places in some other way than in what Lord Roseberry calls spoon feeding" their hardy scholars is a matter on which there are two opin- ions, but the point is that in each part of the United Kingdom, and in various parts of England, universities have during the last few years been revived, re3lenished, or multiplied.
 Recovers Famous Fireplaces.
 With the assistance of a number of generous lovers of antiquity in the country of Lincoln, and elsewhere, Lord Curzon has recovered the fa- nous carved stone fireplaces, dating from the fifteenth century, which were taken out of Tattershall Castle last year. It was rumored they would go to America.
 The work of restoring the castle. and it's surroundings, So far as can legitimately be done, to their former condition. has already been commence ed by Lord Curzon, and as soon as this is sufficiently advanced the fire places will be restored to their orig inal position in the castle walls. It is estimated that the works at Tattcr- 
 shall will not be completed until next year. when Lord Curzon proposes to throw them open to the public.
 drhe Caravan Club.
 There has ever been bond of sym pathy between users of the open road, and present-day civilization produces a yearning for primitive conditions of life. The countryside at once suggests itself, for the fetterless roam ing of unexplored beauty spots, with the kindred breaking away from con yentional modes of dress and food, tends to supply peace to the over- taxed brain.
 With view of facilitating such wonderings, and distinguishing the simple life seekers from gypsies, the Caravan Club was founded five years : xrSx and sim, then it's growth has been