Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-06

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A plea for the University.
II New Mexico is TO take her place
among the progressive common.
wealths of the nation, she must have
great people educationally. There
never has been great people who did
not have great institutions Of Tearing
backed by comprehensive and eff
Client system OF public schools. The
difference between mankind OF the
twentieth century and mankind Of the
stone age Is practically the work OF
the sehoolmaster.
Yet there are those who are fond
Of saying that higher education ener-
Yates rather than energizes those who
secure Il. Because history contains
the names Of many distinguished peo-
pie who never took a regular college
course. II should not be understood
that the knowledge they acquired and
utilized 30 successfully was not the
work Of the college man who toiled
and left records OF what he did for
the benefit of mankind.
Abraham Lincoln became the mas
ter Of English composition by study
Ing the books produced by the best
scholars. and improving upon them.
Thomas A, Edison has taken the dis
coverles OF the college man. Morse,
and the college man. BELL, and APP
piled to them his incompatible In
vcntive genius George r. Edmunds,
one of the greatest constitutional law
yers. never went to school long
enough TO learn there is a difference
between ten square miles and ten
miles square, but he learned the law
from the college men. blackstone,
Coke, Mansfield and thousand 9TH
ers
Best Agency Yet Devised.
might pile up Illustrations during
the entire afternoon, but shall end
this part of my subject with the state
ment that the college has shown itself
to be the best agency that society has
yet produced for the training of
leaders. The college men OF the
country write the laws and administer
them In this nation, and II long has
been said that the graduates of Ok
ford rule the British empire
I want 10 lay all the emphasis pos
sible on another point which ! wish
the teachers here to impress upon
their pupils The young man who ex-
poets 10 live In New Mexico should
get his college education in New Mex
leo. During each year spent In the
University of New Mexico each of
them meets and makes close alliance
OF friendship with more than n hum
dred other young men who VIII be-
come leaders of thought and action
| In the communities in which they live.
Let us imagine young lawyer who is
a graduate OF the University of New
Mexico. He not only Will have the
active cooperation of other young
lawyers who have graduated during
the time he was In college, but the
assistance OF the hundreds of those
students who leave college before
graduation. II Is the kind of ac-
quaintanceshlp that means the closest
friendship, extending It's mutual influ-
ence and assistance into every line of
business.
As Good as Anywhere.
speak advisedly when | say that
the college student in the University
OF New Mexico can secure every whit
az good education ms he would likely
get in any one OF the big universities
OF the east. In many respects his OPP
portunties In the University of New
Mexico are better because he can have
more time and individual attention
from his teachers than Is possible In
the university whose students are
numbered by thousands. James A.
Garfield said his idea Of Il university
was 4 log with Murk Hopkins ON one
end. IA student on the other, and a