The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-02
May Revive
One Of Oldest Projects

Educators of the %Flickertail state
to the number of about 10 are eX-
pected to attend the sessions of the
National Education association which
will open in Chicago on Saturday.
This will be the fiftieth convention of
the association and will mark the
ffty-ffth yea in the life of the Or
ganization, which was formed as the
National Teachers association at
we're held in 1861, 1862, 1867, 1875,
1893 and 1906. Two of the conven-
ions have previously been held in
Chicago, the fourth in 1863 and the
twenty-sixth in 1887.
The state directors and members of
the committee OF cooperation for
North Dakota are w. E. Hoover, sup
%erintendent of schools. Fargo; Rich
ard Hayward. state high school in
spector, Grand Forks; Thomas A.
Hillyer, president of state normal
school. Mayville; George A. McFar-
land. president of state normal school,
Valley City.
Four men will speak at the coming
meeting Of the National Education
association in Chicago in favor of the
national university. The project is
o than 1928 years of age. The
convention, which opens next Satur-
day, Is not expected to g%alvanize the
project into life. but a good start may
be made.
Recently the general subject has
been revived in the public mind by
the death Of DR.. John w. Hoyt. an
Ohio man. born in Worthington. who
for many years was at the head OF
the movement and by some was
termed its father.
Tho aociuratjop bop.o,or - o.
belong to the father of his country
George Washington, in his will. which
became effective 1T9S. left $4,000 in
interest bearing securities as an en
dowment fund for the university an6
directed that 1t should remain in
tact and automatically augment it
self by the interest until such a uni.
versity became an accomplished fact
This money seems to have disap-
peared. dissolved into thin air. fol
accurate accounts of it's history are
meager. contradictory and vague
Money at six per cent compounded
will more than double itself ever,
twelve years. ON this basis. George
Washington's Request today repre-.
sents the almost staggering sum o,
s25. 500. 900.
Much Talk in Congress.
This. Dr. something like it, is wha'
congress upon Nero occasion
has been asked to provide. Congress.
has new done anything but talk anc
ask leave to print. The history of tn,
movement through the more thai
century Of its existence has been thu
same-talk and inaction.
Probably no proposition that eve
has engaged the attention of the ma.
ton has had so illustrious an assert
ment of Endorsements. Ten separat.
presidents have recommended it t,
congress: Almost every leading edu
Gator. advocate, statesman, .iurist. edi
tor. soldier, sailor. and capitalist ha.
spoken for it. The reasons advocated
for the establishment of a. nationa
university would fill books-and d,
fill them. The records Of talk o,
the subject spread over volumes; 6
considerable library. in fact.
Today the movement is represented
by a committee Of 400 and by tn.
special committee Of the National AS.
ISOLATION Of State Universities. Thi:
consists of four men. and these are
they who. true to the traditions o,
the national university, will talk ir
Chicago. Besides DR.. w. q. Thomp.
son Of Ohio state university. Their,
are President Edmund j.. James O,
the University of Illinois. President
Charles r. Van Hise Of the Univer.
sity of Wisconsin. and President Jas
III. Baker of the University of Color.
ado.
Plans of University Vague.
From the first the general idea OF
a national university has been more
or less clearly defined. CONSIDERING
Its age. this Is not surprising. Wash
ington in his will, spoke of 1t as an
institution where the brilliant and
vel conditioned youth Of the country
shoul perfect themselves in the