The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-19

sorships which will duplicate those in
the other two institutions.
Under these circumstances nothing
could be more uneconomical than the
separation or scattering of your re-
sources for advanced education.
Combining those will in
sure to you n thoroughly well
equipped university, in which a.. these
departments can be thoroughly we'll
provided for, n department of chem
istry, n of natural philosophy, one
of metallurgy, one of electricity. one
of agricultural chemistry, one of his
tory and English literature, will be
sufficient for the whole institution,
and SO with many other departments.
Instead of three wretched, little
feeble institutions, to which it would
be very difficult to attract really first>
class men, you will have one institu>
ton, to which men of high standing
will be proud to go as professors. and
which the young men of your state
will be proud to graduate from.
1T is these considerations which led
the state of New York to concentrate
her resources for advanced education.
t'ia" LIZ 1Stait Al oIIttI university
with sixteen hundred 1900 students
and one hundred and fifty G50) men
of the highest standing in her corps
Of instruction.
There is no hardship in this to stu>
dents in any locality; in the old days
when there were no railroads, there
was more reason for scattering col
leges in various parts of each state:
but now, with he immense and rap
idly increasing facilities of railroads,
that reason has ceased to exist.
Still another consideration occurs
TO me-; few men not actively con-
nected with these institutions for ad-
vanced education, know what vast
sums are now required for the prac.
teal application of science to the
great industries, especially in civil,
mechanical, mining and electrical en-
gineering.
The regular income of Cornell UNI
versity the present year, from all
sources, is over half a million dollars.
and, though expended with the utmost
care, it is insufficient to meet all the
for instruction and equip
ment. There are several pieces of
apparatus or machinery that cost that
over 81, 900 each, and two
pieces hat cost over s1O,0 each.
Just as it costs far more to equip
a railroad, hotel, or steamship than
it formerly did, so it costs more to
equip a university.
IF, instead of concentrating YOUR
resources, you ALLOW them to be fritz
tered away on two or three feeble in
stitutions, your strongest young men
will simply go to institutions outside
the state.
There is yet another consideration
IN FAVOR of concentrating your re-
sources, which ought to be thought of:
a single, large, well-founded institu-
ton in a good locality will attract
generous gifts from your men OF
wealth and public spirit, as the ease
of Cornell shows; while little, feeble
institutions will be looked upon with
contempt and will not be helped in
way.
Cornell started with endowments
hardly larger than what 1 suppose
your own would be, if concentrated,
thanks to good management of it's
resources, and above all to gifts from
pupliS-Spiiile lHulNluualS |
now to several millions of dollars, it's
income today is larger than it's orig
nal pecuniary endowment: the very
act that it was large and strong, has
more gifts to it which it other
wise could not have secured.
1t has received from individuals
more than all the twenty-five small
of the State.
i earnestly hope that no mere love
IF locality will prevent men of all
in your Legislature from ar
wing at a large, far-seeing and
decision in this matter.
Scatter your other public i%nstitu-
ions as much as you please, through
our state; give your asylums, re-
reformatory institutions, pris-
ms, ETC., to various localities, but 1
lrge that o keep all your endow-
nents for the most advanced educa-
ion together, for in this way alone