The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-28

control of church or State The insti-
tntious owned and controlled by re-
ligious denominations have done and
are doing a great and needed work
They are Indispensable to the growth
and efficiency of their respective de-
nominations and should be literally
equipped and zealousiy supported.
Such an institution Of learning,
however. must conform It's ideals. It's
customs, its teaching force, and even
its class room instruction. To a single
type. Even in scientific teaching and
research no views must be set forth
which in the judgment of the church
court are fundamentally opposed 10
its own creed or confession of faith,
Washington and Lee university IS
and has always been deeply and evan
gelicaliy Christian i'll its great presi-
dents. its past and present teaching
force. 1t board of trustees and IT.
ideals and traditions. 1t is the hope
and the fixed purpose OF those who
direct its affairs that il shall more
and more be- saturated with the Chris
tian spirit and inspired by the Chris
tian ideal Net its governing board $
self perpetuatiug and independent, It's
p, ofessors and students represent all
denominations, and its teaching Is I'M
fettered by the necessity of conform
iuE To q single view III LfIAH tI the
limits Of specific creed.
Institutions supported by the State.
however valuable IN service or varied
In activities. are, like those owned aud
controlled by church, never entirely
free. Every taxpayer In the State IS
a part owner and feels that he has
the right 10 crit!cise and direct campus
discipline. Teaching ON industrial and
economic questions must have regard
10 the dominant political party, Legis-
latures must he placated In order %
secure large annual appropriations.
Party leaders must not be offended.
the election of professors must often
be decided en- other grounds than fit
ness and efficiency. and at times the
Institution may become d mere foot-
ball In the game Of party politics
In ats freedom, therefore. to set rs
own academic ideals. enforce its own
standards, select it's professors on
professors the whole truth on every
subject and uphold on its campus
high standards OF scholarship and
conduct by the untrammeled rejection
and elimination of the unprePared and
unworthy. Washington and Lee enjoys
a unique and priceless privilege.
8 1t is equally unique in its unre-
stricted opportunity.
Although located IN Virginia It's
position is aptiy expressed by the ath-
lettc term southern 1t is the
one Southern institution which APP
peais TO and Is patronized by rho
whole South. drawing over two-thirds
Of it's student body from beyond the
borders of the Old Dominion
Yet even this fact only half states
its opportunity for service AS Wash
ington and Lee have outgrown all sec
tionalism and are now both national
heroes. SO their institution is appeal
ing more snd more 10 the ~hole
nation and drawing enthusiastic stu
dents from every part OF the North
and West. The last catalogue shows
thirty-ffye States and foreign countries
represented on It's campus II Is not
only an All Southern but national
institution. and the larger part OF its
endowment has been contributed py
friends and admirers north of Mason
and Dixons line.
The field Of a church institution Is
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