The Calumet news., 1912-08-15
Interesting Years Trip of
all Educ atiOnal Explorer
DIR. Edgar L. Branton Tells of Unique Systems
OF Educating the Youth of South America

After a trip OF nearly year througl
South America, where he visited MANY
of the prncipai universities and edu-
cational Institutions pr. Edgar r.
Brandon has Just returned TO WASH.
|, ington. During this trip pr, Brandon
saw many unique and unusual sys
TENS Of education I'm operation. Man
of the nations south of us have as
modern system Of educating thei,
people as We have today In the United
states. while on the contrary there are
some of the smaller republic "A httle
backward But there is a widespread
movement that seems To- take in all of
South America today and even the
smaller republics are waking up To
the fact that education is the basis of
prosperity in any country In The world.
The work was undertaken under the
direction of the Pan American Union.
II was desired TO get hrst hand nfor-
nation concerning hieher education in
the Latin American republics. and
with this object in Wow thc Pan Am
erican Union sent a representative to
AiffAA 'NNNfAf W mint ~ Nf'A-lf NANNN
If all branches of the subject. The
doctor relates many interesting cNqcr-
fences that happened to him while on
the trip and some of them are intense
~ interesting.
During the year he was away pr.
Brandon sent a monthly story of mis-
travels 10 Washington. These stories
We're of such unusual interest they
were printed each month i'm the Bul-
letin issued by the Pan American
Union. There were eight installmcnts
from October of last year To JulS of
1912. In short talk the doctor gave
an interesting resume of his experience
while visiting our friends i'm the south
He intended primarily To look into tte
educational facilities OF every Latin
American republic, but later found ne
would have time 10 cover only Pana
ma, Peru Bolivia. chile. Argentina.
Uruguay Brazil. Venezuela ana Costa
Rica.
1T is strange but nevertheless true,
said the doctor. THAT nothing has ever
'ffI IhNtlNilfl III Aiilo fbuHAlN lt-dih-
ing higher education in South Ameri-
ca. As Illustrating the lack of knowl-
edge on this subject among many peo-
pie, will tell YOU of an incident. When
| started out on my mission an appar-
emily well informed lady asked me
years leave of absence and I was go
ing to South America tc study the
there. She said. Have
they got any universities there
II first visited Ecuador and Guatc- |
lnala where they have universities tus |
only in a small way. In Argentina
they have more than seven thousand
in their four universities. Al |
Buenos Aires alone they nave five |
thousand Students. which Is almost as
many as on the rolls of any university |
In the United States. Chile has about
two thousand students i'm the Statc |
University. with several hundred more
m tile Catholic University. Peru has
nearly one thousand I'm the university
1t Lima, including the three provin-
'ial universities. Even little country
Ike Uruguay has seven thousand stu
tents.
Tn Brazil there are about eight
thousand persons studying law, mcJi-
inc. pharmacy. dentistry. and enSi- :
leering. but peculiar fact i'm conncc-
ion with this country is that it is the
'nly one that does not maintain a uni
'ersity I'm the whole Of South America.
rhe schools were never organized i'm
form. They nave school Of
aw, schools Of medicine, schools of en-
;ineering and many other kinds OF
schools, but strange to say they have
no university that comprises all oi
hese different schools i'm orc oreaniaa-
ion.
Another striking fact abo IT Latin
america is the great amount of money
he various countries are putting into
igher education of late Years. Many
I them are putting up fine buildings.
Increasing the salaries Of the teachirg n
tan, and doing many other things 10
elp along the educational propagan-
a. Uruguay I'm the last three or four