The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-12
MALLORY SUGGESTS GREAT UNIVERSITY With Howard College As
 Nucleus in Birmingham
 GIVES HIS REASONS
Says Birmingham Is Destined to Have Mammoth School and Thinks Bap- lists of State Have Suitable
 Nucleus

Col. H. s. D. Mallory of Selma, former candidate for governor and one of the most prominent Baptists of Alabama, in a letter in the Birmingham Ledger sug- gests the building of a great university in Brming ham, with Howard college, the well known Baptist institution. as a nu- cleus
 He suggests as a beginning the oonsid- eration by those interested of the acquire n1ent of the Birmingham Medical college, the Birmingham Dental college and Col lege of Pharmacy.
 Sometime in the future there will be a great university in Birmingham" writes Colonel Mallory. "Its beginning may be nearer than we think. Why may not this university be built by the Baptists? In Howard college, with it's fine traditions. it's established character and present equipment. we have the foundation on which to commence the establishment of a university in which may be educated not alone the boys of Alabama, but which will draw patronage from all the south.
 
 annex the Birmingham Medical college to the state university. and thus estab- fish dual medical schools and the opposi- tion to it has provoked some thought and discussion along the line of which I am writing.
 We must prepare for the future. AL ready in many respects a great city, Bir- mingham is just beginning it's growth as one of the largest centers of population and wealth of this country. No one who thinks of the matter at all will doubt that it's educational institutions will grow with it's advance in population and wealth and to Birmingham will come a great in- stitution of learning just as certainly and logically as will come rapidly increasing wealth and population.
 Build Near Great City
 'I think the universities of the future will be built in or adjacent to the greater cities. Their establishment. when not state institutions, must be largely by endow- ment by people of wealth, and these peo- pie dwell in our cities.
 "A very large number of people in Ala bama are growing rich. some of them very rich In Birmingham there are a number of millionaires-and this number will increase. Some of these rich people think a good part of their wealth should be devoted to the education of the youth of the state, and will consider how this can be most wisely done, and through what institution or agency What has bepr dnna and ha{ Iona t,, f b. northern states in this direction will be done here as the riches of our people in- crease.
 These are some of the reasons why I think the time is already here, when we should most seriously think of building a great university. other than state in stitution. This movement is in no sense nfmical to the state university, and will not be so considered by the government and friends of that institution. There is room for both and to spare
 ''The day of the mere lecture as the means of teaching is passing away. The teacher of medicine takes the students into the hospital and let's him study the patient and the disease during it's course.
 Law is now being taught under the case system. in addition to the former method of lecture, and the teaching of mining engineering is not now confined to the lecture room, but is carried into the mfnes and electrical and hydraulic engineering is not now confined to the lecture room. but all kinds of electrical machinery and problems, water power. canal. storage reservoirs and other such plants as exist affording practical demon- trations to the student. So far as Ala bama is concerned, and probably the en- tire south. Birmingham affords the finest field for such methods of teaching, not only in the particulars mentioned, but in struction in what is called, the business course,'' not merely shorthand and type writing, but the principles and practices of banking, trade, salesmanship. develop ment of resources, legitimate promotion etc., and the important thing that the university should afford the poor boy, the opportunity for working his way through college"
 Birmingham's Advantages
 Birmingham now affords to such de- gree, and in the future to yet greater degree, these opportunities and advan- tages, that the building of a university there is but question of time.
 "Who will build it? If present conditions remain as they are, or unless some great body of people take hold of 1t in earnest, it will probably not come until some mod ern Leland Stanford or John Harvard or Ely Yale of the Birmingham district sets aside few millions for the endowment of such an institution after his own con struction and under the control of his appointees, and then farewell to the am bitions for Howard college. except as to mere subordinate institution.
 Let us look around and see if condi- tons may now not exist favorable to be- ginning the building of Howard up to the university rank. and become an attractive institution for the millions of dollars, some of it in Alabama, which are now waiting, l doubt not, for profitable edu- oational investment. not from the rich alone, but from people of even moderate means who desire to aid in the education