Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-18

Cincinnati O., Nov. 17.-President Lem
uel Herbert Murlin of Boston University.
a speaker at today's session of the second
annual meeting of the National Assocla-
ton of Urban University, declared the
country was on the Threshold OF a new
era Of cooperation between the munich
palty and the university. The urban uni
versity he said. has only recently awak-
ened to the fact that the city is at once
IT'S unique opportunity and its peculiar
responsibility and that the urban uni
ycrsitv can serve the city in all its Va
rious forms Of life Just as the normal
school serves the primary school life OF
the state: and just as the agricultural
college serves the rural life of the state.
His subject was Results of Corpora
ton by the Municipality and the tniver-
sitv in Educatiou.'' and he declared that
while il was perhaps premature to speak
OF results it was a fact that the univer-
sites have been rendering a vast amount
Of public service without its being dis
tinctly recognized as such. and with the
new era OF cooperation we have as Vet
~hut the faintest CLEANS of the posslnll-
tics opening before US
Tic Problem of the City
We are far from demonstrating" ho
said. that Il free people can become in
teliiceny 9ocial. disinterested and parri-
otto enough % govern themselves. The
present problem OF this new civilization
OF ours is tie problem OF the city: If,
therefore, the university OF the 2oth CEN
turv is to have that place of leadership
in our civiliza ton held by those of the
18th and 18th century which he had pre-
yiouslv referred to as having been rural
colleges larEely-"thev must. as did these,
live among the people and seek to clear
their visions. grid them for new tasks,
and enrich and nourish their lives. The
municipal university was, therefore. nat
ural and inevitable and marked an era in
the development of American education
second only to the founding of the public
schools il, the 18TH century and the state
university in the 18th century
The Educated Man
President Murlin referred to the
great equipment which city offers
university loo ated within or near its
borders such as libraries, museums,
are gallaries. factories, parks, indus
tries, commerce. food supplies. health.
education, amusements, morals, reil-
goin and SO on. Here" he said, ARE
going on the very things about which
the students read in books and are in
structed in lectures The city itself is
an educational institution, and for one
to know its life, its philosophy, its sci
ence. its practical administration. is
TO mark him as an educated man. 1t
is mary elouSiv strange that we have
been so slow in coming to conscious
ness Of our great opportunity in recog-
nizing and using the cooperative pos
sibiiities Of the university and the
city"
Co-oneration in education by the
university and the city should mean.
among other things, said the speaker,
that better scholastic results would
be obtained 1T is notorious that. save
for a very few. there is little of the
scholastic habit among students. There
is no sense of the dignity of the work
Of learning and knowledge among a
group Of average college students.
THE president of college in good
standing, writing me the other day,
gave two lines to matters scholastic
and all the rest Of the full-paged let
ter was devoted to an account of thier
athletic achievements and outlook,
closing by assuring me that the pros
poets Of his institution were very
bright! Better, if we may choose. do
I like that answer Of Western state
university president in answer to a
QUESTIONABLE on athletics who replied:
Il fear / cannot give you any helpful
from our institution; COL
lege athletics we do have. but not in
the sense that your QUESTIONABLE i'm
plies; our boys are too busy solving
the problem Of the desert to have any
time fer the prevalent type Of col
Iege athletics.' Solving the problem
OF the desertl' That's good, for their
institution was located in the heart Of
that region which once appeared upon
our American school Biographies as
The Great American Desert Last
year that state raised, in one wheat
crop alone $50 million bushels Of wheat,
IN hs,sho1a <or avery man. woman and