University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-13

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i pon the retirement of Director
ROthill. he was the unanimous
chde of the board of control for the
dirttorship of the Bureau of the
Anglican Republics, but President
Mel bnley had candidate of his own.
Don Governor Hoyt's return to
Warrington, in 1891, he began a
systematic renewal of his efforts of
forner years for true national uni
verSy at the seat of government.
He rganized the National Univer-
sity Committee of One Hundred. af-
terwrds increased to four hundred,
CONFUSING the superintendents of
publ instruction in all the States,
the Fesidents of two hundred and
fifty hading colleges and universities,
and cher men most distinguished in
privaie and public life. The Execu-
tive council of this committee COM
prised from time to time the follow
ing: Melville w. Fuller, Chief JUS
tice Il the United States. Ex-senator
Geor9 F. Edmunds, Ex-PrOvOst Will
liam lepper, of the University of
Pennsylvania, Ex-AmbassadOr An
drew D. White, Ex-GOv. John Lee
Carol. of Maryland. General Horace
Porter Ex-senator Eppa Hunton,
Ex-SemtOr A. Fl. Garland, Ex-Sena-
tor J. B. Henderson. Col. Wilbur R.
Smith,. of Kentucky University, Ex-
L. S. Commissioner of Education
John htOn, Lieutenant-Gene Nell
son A. Miles, Ex-Minister Oscar S.
Strauss, Ex-senator William F. vi
las, ExSecretary of the Navy Hilary
A. Herbert, Admiral George Dewey,
Major John w. Powell, Professor w.
J. Melee Director and Asst Director,
respectively, of the Bureau of Ameri-
can EthlOlogy, and Ex-President
Merrill 4 Gates, of Rutgers and
Amherst Colleges.
In 1892 he submitted to Congress
his argmentative and historical
Memorial in regard to a National
which was printed in
extra edition by the U. S. Senate, pre-
pared the successive favorable Re-
ports (all but one of them unani-
mOus) submitted by Chairmen
Proctor. Hunton. Kyle and DebOe of
the Senate Committee on the Univer-
sity of the United States. and the
Reply of Views of the Minority"
IN 1904 obtained reapprOval of the
National University proposition by
he National Educational AssOcia-
ion, and in 1908 submitted to the
Senate. on behalf of the Executive
,ounrr. an Appeal to the U. q. SEN
tie in behalf of the proposed Univer-
ity of the United States" He Op-
'Osed the use of university Square,"
et apart by Washington as the site
If a national university, for other |
han university purposes, and the |
of George WashingtOn's |
anne by the Columbia University as
n act of which the first president |
'Ould not have approved, and as in
and misleading. He made
arnest effort for the reorganization
f the George Washington University |
S basis for national university,
nd endeavOred to interest the Amer
AN University in a union of forces.
n the course of his university work,
fter return to Washington, he
rOught the national university pro-
OsitiOn to the attention of Presi-
ents Cleveland. Mckinley, ROOse-
cit. and Taft, and obtained from
resident Taft the statement that,
pom favorable consideration of the
latter. he might make it the SUBJ
.ct of special message to Congress.
uring the last several years, owing
, i'll health, his wide national uni
arsity correspondence was necessa-
ly diminished. but he maintained to
lie last his absorbing interest in the
convinced as he always
as that the great institution for
hose establishment he labored was
thing of destiny.
During the public career. Governor
Oyt had numerous occasions to ad-
ess bodies. local, state, national,
I'd international, on educational, So I
al, industrial, philanthropic and pa
iotic subjects. more important ad-
esses, besides those mentioned. being
'urth of July Orations at London
d Vienna. in 1862 and 1873; ad-
ess at Dartmouth College on the
,hts and interests of labor; ad-
esses at New Orleans and New
'rk on the resources and wonders
Wyoming; address at Philadelphia
equal suffrage. of which 100000