The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14

inss a board of government, strong
teaching force, class rooms and students
and fund sufficient to maintain the
hlgh,st kind Of research and investiga-
ton
The economic demand for such n
university is obvious and the field for
its operations no less apparent The
src.t growth in usefulness OF our State
universities and the very trend of the
growth If our private universities show
IT, Nut so many years ago our private
foundations were the intellectual homes
of scholars either in embryo or fully
dcNcluprd They taught the three pro-
feSs,ug- ministry. law and medicine
and acknowledged no other callings or
lines og work as entitled to that name.
To-day they have developed from
Scholastic Institutions into educational
Institutions and have created num-
Der OF professions. For / hold that any
field in which scientific knowledge Is
applied to the public welfare is pro-
feesion Instead Of treating only with
books they treat with facts, applying
the results OF scientific research 10
every phase Of economics. finance, COM
merco and Industry. Indeed / do not
at this moment call to mind any phase
Of our Industrial life which they do not
touch
"Thc idea Of a national university Is
not new. II was strongly advocated by
WASHINGTON who bequeathed certain
shares # stock as a nucleus for Its en-
doWm"nt. our governmental organi-
Istjon Is and has been for many years
work ny toward that result. We have
no ISOLATED bureaus, nor could have as
national proposition. The reports on
the observations and investigations OF
the different stations established by the
Government all over the United states
are concentrated at Washington, each
in the bureau which has jurisdiction
over H. The result Is that all the In.
formation gathered by isolated stations
Of any one department has a place OF
con. 'ntraton where the whole OF the
fnd.arS can be compared and the ne'
RESI-, n conclusion arrived at.
"Er' without coordinatlng this infor'
malice with economic conditions in othe'
hc'ls no adequate diagnosis Of condi
ton ~ error can be made and no pre-
scr p'..n for Its correction can be writ
ten. Since It is impossible, in these day
In. national commerce, for any com
mi"ET 70 live a life OF isolation, sine
o., lines OF one industry touch ant
an.u. so many others, 1t must be ap
ps.rrt hat there is great and pressint
noel .pr a central institution where IN
p II the researches OF ever.
d"pt~'ment Of governmental inquir
AZ, .uEcstigation shall be concentrated.
But not only results Of the activities
OF Ipvernment departments should mt
Fr.A Capitalization. Here also SHOULD
co'ro the findings OF State and privat
unt crslties, both in this country an
a'rad, on any and every subject ar
'"'ing our financial, commercial, in
rial educational, artistic and civil
N'" The Government itself could no
IA. 10 benefit largely by such full or
ttrzatIon Of the scientific side OF 1t
\ n"ites. The various bureaus, nov
unrelated. would have full relation t
each other in central bureau wher
each would find facts and conditions &C
b'd.nated and their bearings upon an
one particular question made clear.
'Nur would the benefit inure to I'll
tg'"rnment alone. The whole peopl
additionally and individually, wou
ii'it The largest and most advance
F'Nersities would profit by their apiii'
TO draw upon the information thus Gel
Na1ized and the fields and facilities I