The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-05

forestry, scientific laboratories, es-
tablished to search out the Sc
crets of nature, to develop the indus
tries of the state, to study the cause
and cure of disease, and to promote
the health and happiness of the people.
At such a university the poorest boy
or girl with brains and character and
energy would be able to finish a uni
versity career, because on a domain
SC great it would be possible to pro-
vide employment on the farm or in
the gardens or in the orchards or
elsewhere, for all students willing
to work with head or hand. The uni
versity farms and dairies and gardens
would supply the tables and greatly
reduce the cost of living to faculty
and students.
Location.
Few state universities have beer
fortunately located. Many of them
are in mean and miserable towns
without even good railroad connec
tons. We believe that the selection
for a location for the university is a.
matter of supreme Importance to the
people of the state and that EXPERT
opinion secured after careful study of
all conditions called for and after
visiting competing cities will help to
guide the general assembly in locating
the university near the city which of
fers. all things considered, the best
location for the upbuilding of a great
seat of learning. We therefore ex-
press the opinion that a committee
consisting on the one hand two educa-
tors of national reputation and of large
experience, men who by reason of their
character and expert knowledge
would command the respect not only
OF the state but of the nation 1--WE
suggest such men as ex-President
Jesse, of the University of Missouri;
eX-fres1dent Northrop, Of the Univer-
slty OF Minnesota; ex-President Angel
or the university of Miclligan; DR..
Jacob Gould Schurnan of Cornell; DR..
Henry ). Pritchett. president of the
Carnegie Foundation; ex-President
Charles w. Eliot of Harvard; Presl-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Co
lumbia university; President Van Hise
OF the University of Wisconsin; Presi-
dent Hill Of the University of Mis-
souri,; President Bryan of the Univer-
sity of Indiana; President Wheeler of
the University of California;; President
David Starr Jordan of Stanford uni
Versity-any two of whom might be
selected), and on the other hand two
great citizens Of the state known for
their disinterested patriotism and pre-
ferably not living in any of the COM
petlng cities. TheS two men might
be appointed by the legislature. The
governor of the state should be chair
man of This rnmn1ittnn This opr,-
mittee should have power to decide
upon the location of the university.
OF course, competing cities will have
opportunity to present to the commit
tee their claims for the location, to-
gether with such inducements as they
may decide to offer.
We believe it possible for Montana
to establish both a public school sys-
TEN and a university more perfectly
organized to meet the needs of the
people than may be found in any other
state in the union. In the older
states, such as Virginia, Indiana and
Ohio, nothing short of a revolution
could clear the ground for either an
efficient or an economical reorganiza-
ton of state schools.
The new University of Montana
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Of other universities, Of ever so great
and 81 effectively organized a uni
versity as that of Illinois, of Wiscon-
sin, of Minnesota or of California. IT
is Known to educators that in states
where the agricultural and mechanical
college is at one place and the nor
NAL college at another and the uni
versity at another, one usually sees
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striving each to become a university
in fact, if not in name. The educa-
tional work in such q. state is thrown
into constant turmoil. But even in
states like Wisconsin, Minnesota and
California, where all other professional
schools have been grouped around the
university the schools for the train
ing of teachers are located in different
parts of the state. In Missouri, in
Indiana and in other state the nor
NAL schools are constantly raising
their standards and are now giving
college degrees and in so doing en-
croaching upon the work of the uni
verSity. Nor may one reasonably finG
fault with the normal school. 1t must
expand or die. Conditions, not theo-
ries, force it into conflict with the
university.
Normal School Location.
The isolated normal school is neces-
sarily provincial. The teacher, no less
than the lawyer, the engineer, the
physician, should be educated in the
free liberalizing and inspiring atmOs-
phere of tho university. Here the
prospective teacher meets the future
great leaders of the state, sees, and
learns to know the great professors
who are pushing out the frontiers OF
knoWledge; walks through the great
libraries, art galleries and museums
Of the university; in short, lives in the
noble and cosmopolitan atmosphere OF
the university with its great scholars