The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-08-03

The world-famous Washington Uni
versity medical group, at st. Louis, is
shown by reference to an address de-
livered between six and seven years
ago by Chancellor David Franklin
Houston, now on leave Of absence to
serve as Secretary of Agriculture in
President Wilson's Cabinet, to be a
realization, in part Of a vast plan out
lined in that address, which, although
delivered before the Commercial Club
of st. Louis, was really in the nature OF
an inaugural.
"A University for the Southwest
was the subject of the address, the date
of the delivery of which was October
81. 1908, and the hearers of which in
cluded most of the citys ultra-wealthy
men, from among whom obviously
must come the bulk of the money for
whatever extraordinary extensions
Washington University might make
DR.. Houston pointed out courageously
how those men of millions seated about
him could help to produce for this sec
tion of the country real university
something which many of them sup
posed st, Louis already to possef%, but
which DR.. Houston insisted no South.
western city, st. Louis included, had
yet acquired. Said he:
No great university can be built UP and
sustained unless the university can Sc
cure and keep a fair number of the
strongest greatest, most creative and in
spring OF the worlds teachers and in
vestigators.
Much Money Needed.
TO do this requires much money, high
salaries, not because any great man IN
this, any more than 10 any other sphere,
works for money but simply because
money means relief from worry and
command over necessary implements; IN
short, means efficiency.
Men of real creative genius are rare
and difficult to get, and really cannot be
paid, but when you get them-when you
secure a Huxley, q Pasteur, Tyndal'
and a Koch--you have university; the
problem is solved.
But much more is required. There Is
need of great laboratories ana libraries
and money for operating expenses An
eminent German scientist, when asked
for his idea Of a university, replied that
IL WAS LABORATORY anu ~ beliN dSNolA y
and another said that II he were gong
to build n university and had large FUNDS
he would first equip a laboratory, and
then if his money held cut ne might
erect a building, and then If he had a
surplus he might employ some profess
ors, if he were sure Of their capacity.
St. Louis the Logical Location.
Regarding the Pritchett report to
the Carnegie Foundation, DR.. Houston
said:
/ would not agree with DIR. .Pritchett
rs to the necessity for the, elimination
of the undergraduate college. such
colleges will continue for long time
ttre OF American universities, distin-
gushing them especially from the
German II IS requisite only that
these colleges be so organized TO
prevent them ultimately from crowding
out the professional and graduate schools
and preventing the development OF true
university spirit.
But | do agree unreservedly with Dr.
Pritchett that il would be of Immense
value to the educational system of the
country If few more institutions doing
effectively strong work of real university
grade were developed, and l would. win
equal confidence, express the opinion that
II would be Of more value to the educa J.
tionai interests Of the country If one
were developed here on existing founda-
tions than anywhere else In the nation,
ana that it is not probable that any in-
stitiition elsewhere in the Southwest VIII
satisfy the need