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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16

Sunday before the Washington Secular
League, today denied that he had ad-
vocated the use of bank credits as a
basis for loans. Mr.. Daniels says that
he condemned the use Of bank credits
- a basis for loans, as being the basic
cause Of the high cost Of living.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
CAPITAL Women Honored.

At the conclusion Of It's thirty-nrst
ans Home Missionary Society. elected
Mrs. whitford l.. Mcdowell, Of Wash
inRton, president. Mrs. G. L. Roach
and Miss Ella l.. Stienetz, both OF
Washington, were elected correspond
ing. secretary and treasurer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
Lecture on Shakespeare.

Mrs. Henry Elliott Mott. OF New York
and Virginia. will address the Shake
speare Society of America tomorrow
night in the auditorium OF the Cairo at
s p. m. Her subject will be THE Rights
Of Man. or Katherine In The Tanning
N the Shrew.'" The lecture In the
third of a special series by the society.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
In Memory of Henry George. Jr

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Suffrage
Club will hold a meeting in honor OF
the late Henry George. jr.. tonight at 3
o'clock In the Public Library Sew
eral speeches will be made by friends
OF Mr.. George.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
Lecture on Philosophy

philosophy as Related to Science"
will be the subject OF an address by
Max Sasuly, Of the Bureau of Stand
ards at the Public Library at 4:45 p. M.
saturday. Students OF philosophy and
science have been invited to attend the
lecture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
Mrs. Gardner to Lecture.

Mrs. Frank A. Gardner will lecture at
the Paul Institute this evening under
the auspices of the Anthony League.
Mrs Gardner IL n professional story
teller from Pennsylvania State College.
The proceeds will be devoted to the
Crlttenton Home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
CONGREGATION TO Meet.

There will be meeting of the Wash
ington Hebrew congregation in the
restry rooms of the temple. Monday
at D. m. The organization will fiji
the vacancy caused by the death OF
Isaac l.. Blout, and will transact Other
business which may be presented.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST
IN AND ABOUT TOWN
News and Gossip Of Washing
ton and Washingtonians
TerseIy Told.
Found Scores of

Found Scores of
sligibles for any
optimists' club!
They are the
men who bet on
Hughes. Many of
theI still sagely
tell the stake
holders to cling
tight to their
money.
wait for the
official count In
alto rnia," Is
their slogan.
The stakehold-
ers should worry.
They have the use
OF consider n b ] o
cold and helpful
cash.
But some bet
tors are on to
that game. So
they are taking
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-12

SENES Hcr"s ara room ro,,ar. Ton
prinH'sS "S'E ~ stauou Nr,h " city,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-12

~ a.Tos Eo2d tand. excellent rrth#rl. au,,
EEL "atefea hy streams rur qEIe. .a,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-12

90 acres. Groom dwelling. niles rom
2 city. Price. S2.r'u. Tc.su. casy "
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-12
ALSl,

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Manager Farm Department.
l.. Nnrth EiEhth Str..t.
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coffee state of the same name, is the
seat Of famous law school. Mackenzie
College, which is better known as the
American College, because Its founder
was a Canadian n-American, which is
maintained on semi-denominational
basis by religious bodies, Is also sit
uated at Sac Paulo.
Pernambuco. the capital of the state
of the same name, is possibly the most
famous of all the Brazilian universities.
as school of Jurisprudence has done
much to enhance the reputation of
Brazilian jurists. When England and
the United States were arranging the
Geneva arbitration of the Alabama
claims they turned to Brazil for one OF
who had been professor of jurispru
dence at Pernambuco, was selected.
Caleb Cushing, whose knowledge of
international law was profound. was
one of the legal representatives Of the
United States in that arbitration, and
he paid a high tribute to the ability of
the Brazilian arbitrator.
Brazil has achieved something like
pan-American pre-eminence In medical
science. The medical school at Bahia
cation and has done some notable
work. The medical university at Rio
de Janeiro which is under government
supervision, has been even more nota-
BILE in it's work of original research and
in the application of new discoveries
tute and the Oswald Cruz Institute for
the combating of yellow fever are the
most notable outcome of higher medi-
cal education on the practical, side. The
government polytechnic school is also
situated at Rio de -Janeiro. and is an
index of the present tendency toward
higher education in engineering ana
kindred subjects.
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good the promise given to secure en-
listments. but from the doubt OF the
colony's title to these lands. With all
the conflicting claims of France to the
lands south of the Canadian territory.
of Spain to the lands north of the gulf
possessions, and those of the English
to the lands west of the coast posses.
sion were added to the difficulties OF
the conflicting claims of the several
English colonies and the various colo
nists. England settled the question as
to the French claims by driving her
colonists out and making a treaty OF
peace which laid down boundary sat
isfactory to the English: and Spanish
claims to territory far north as the
Ohio, since that nation had not the mil
itary power to back her demands. were
put aside for diplomatic adjustment. or,
In palmer words. were disregarded.
Sir William Johnston. a power in New
York. claimed to have purchased from
the Indians rights on the Ohio, and
powerful company in England. headed
by Walpole. assisted by Benjamin
Franklin, formed scheme to obtain
grant from parliament of the very
lands which Washington and his fell
low Virginia officers. working the old
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Tree. thence by Protracton So W1630 poles
to the white oak the Head Of the Run.
Novr 6-1774 SAM LEWIS B. G.
A diligent search in the division and
in the correspondence of the great gen.
eral discloses nothing to indicate that
Lewis selected a cherry tree as one of
his boundary monuments with any
view of reminding the dignified young
patrician of unpleasant moments which
in his young life he may have spent
with his father, because q new hatchet
has affinity for young cherry trees.
The highly priced Washington copy
of Lewis survey, which is kept in the
same cabinet with an original survey
made by Washington, November. 1850,
of land in Frederick county. Va, COW
ers in all seven plots, consisting OF
many acres of the choicest bottom
lands along the Great Kanawha river
beginning near its entry into the Ohio
river. They took in the very best Of
the patentable lands. those which were
nearest the navigable Ohio. At that
time Washington gave no expression
of the value of the river as waterway
to take produce down the Ohio. but
even then he saw the advantage of a
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constitutional suggestions which it ap-
propriated.
The groundwork of the university is
the secondary education obtained in
the national colleges and in the uni
versities of the provinces. The prov
inces of Argentina are similar to states
in the American Union. Many of them
have provincial universities. These cor
respond to the state universities In this
country, though none of them compare
with these universities in the wide
field of instruction offered.
Among the requisites for admission
to the University of Buenos Aires Is q
certificate of six years study in one
of the national colleges. The univer-
sity courses require six years study
for graduation degrees. No profes-
sional degrees can be given by private
Institutions The faculty of law and
social sciences. with it's stately build
ing, is one of the notable places IN
Buenos Aires. The engineering school
is development of the modern tend
encies for practical instruction
University life in Argentina, as IN
Brazil and other Latin American coun J.
tries merges closely with public ire
Professors in the university frequently
leave it to accept cabinet portfolios
and then return to their chairs Dr
Zeballos the former foreign minister
who delivered an address of welcome to
Col Theodore Roosevelt, and told the
colonel what the Monroe doctrine real
ly was served a professor at the
university 1t was at this university
convocation that Col. Roosevelt him
self delivered one of his most pungent
south American addresses.
DIR. Romulo Naon. the Argentine am
bassador in Washington, who has mao e
so deep an impression on public sentl
ment in the United States, was a uni
versity professor previous to entering
diplomatic life. He studied in Chicago
and other points in the United States
before he became professor.
Uruguay. which is among the most
progressive of the South. American
countries and which shows marked
tendency to model its government after
Switzerland. has a university of the re-
public with provision for higher educa.
ton in law, medicine and the physical
sciences.
Brazil maintains the Latin American
tradition that higher education is the
function of the state. although 1t has
not yet established a great central uni
versity at Rio de Janeiro. the capital
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on the Ohio: and as no right money is to b.
paid for these lands and quit rent Of two a1. sni
hence only. 1t is highly presumable that they
will always be held upon a more desirable foot
ing than when both these are laid on with
very heavy hand.
And it may not be amss further to observe
that IL the scheme for establishing a new gov
ernment on the Ohio in the manner talked Of
should ever he effected these must be among the
Of the goodness Of soil ana the other sdran,aees
enumerated. but from their contiguity Of the
seat of government. which more than probably
will be fixed at the mouth Of the Great kanha-
wa. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
About this time the relations between
royal governors and the more infiuen-
tial men of the colonies began to be
strained. New York. in point of travel
time. was farther distant from Wash
ington than San Francisco is now.
and Boston was long journey be-
yond New York: but, although there
were no mail trains or telegraph lines.
to say nothing of wireless telephones.
the spirit of unrest was abroad and
no one was more gravely concerned or
interested than Washington. Never
theless, he kept his head SO well that
he did not fail to do whatever was re-
quired in order to hold the magnin
cent estate on the kanhawa, although
his plan for developing and leasing it
came to nothing during the years Of
the struggle for the independence Of
the colonies.
Upon his return to Mount Vernon. at
the close Of the revolution. he found
his property very much run down as a
result of his long absence. At that
time his estates consisted of four farms
containing 5000 acres in Virginia. in
cluding Mount Vernon and other farms.
properties in the city Of Washington.
in Maryland. New York. Kentucky.
Pennsylvania and the northwest coun-
try. besides the bounty lands.
In the inventory which he attached
to his will. he places the 9.744 acres
on the Ohio river with a notation
that these several tracts are of the
first quality on the river" A small
trace had been sold for $40 an acre. and
the rest was of even greater value.
particularly part which "lye's near
thickly settled village on the opposite
shore
The Kanhawa lands, containing o..
341 acres, were under contract Of sale
at $l0 an acre, and his comment is tha.
II the sale Is not consummated the land
should be worth more. but he inven-
tories 1t at $2S0.00O. His total estate
was estimated at $53O,OOO
Most of this, however, was invested
in lands which brought no return. He
had been so engrossed with military
cares that he was unable to develop his
unimproved holdings; the demands OF
hospitality upon him were so great
that he had been obliged to draw upon
his principal to maintain his Mount
Vernon establishment, and he there
fore sought to dispose Of these lantJ
which. up to the time of his death, aea
brought him nothing but anxiety 109
expense and the pleasurable sense q
ownership. =
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waterway to Fort Pitt. up the Monon-
gahela river, and thence by short
portage to the Potomac, on which
freight might be carried out to the
colonies in the east. He was not quite
a century ahead of the projectors of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
The decree of Gov. Dinwiddie. Feb
ruary IS. 1854. provided for setting
apart 100000 acres of public lands for
division among the militia as an in
ducement to them to risk their necks
in defense of the colony; and with the
fine appreciation of militarism on the
doctrine of service due from the COM
mon soldier to the officer of rank it
was based upon division which
eventually gave one-ninth. or 1900
acres. to the colonels. of which Wash
ington was one, and 400 acres to a mere
private.
The delay in issuing the patents
seems not to have been caused by the
unwillingness of the council to make
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example which all countries should
follow. 1t did not comment on the
failure of Washington's own country
after century to have taken the
stems to carry out his wishes or to
render an account of the bequest. The
anniversary of his birth again brings
the reminder of Washington's interest
in the spread of education.
true that Alexander Hamilton wrote
this paragraph of the farewell ad-
dress:
Promote. then. object of primary i'm
pcrtance. institutions for the general diffusion
OF g"vernment gives p force to public opinion
it is essential that public opinion should be en-
lightened.
The sentiment is full as much that
which Washington entertained all his
life as it may have been Hamilton's
sentiment, and the tone is distinctly
Washingtonian.
Washington's endowment of Augusta
Academy. which thereupon by the
grateful trustees was transformed into
Washington Academy, and in the evo-
luton of a century has become Wash
ington and Lee University Virginia's
proud institution of learning, was
day tendencies. The study of agricul-
tural and military topics was one OF
the principal purposes of the endow-
ment.
Higher education, however. was
Washington's real dream of univer-
sity at the National Capital The
magination of no man could fully
grasp what a century would develop
: in the way of opportunities for higher
study and research, but the germ OF
the postgraduate university was there,
and washingtons vision comprehend
ed the opportunity.
The library facilities which would be
the outgrowth of century may have
been but dimly appreciated. His own
library of a thousand books, devoted
mainly to agricultural and military
subjects, was less comprehensive than
that of Jefferson. The books now on
the shelves at Mount Vernon which are
known to have been part of Washing
tons library, do not indicate that they
provided the basis of the general Gull
ture which is the groundwork of all
the great universities, but the assem-
blage of great libraries was natural
outcome of Washington's ideas of what
should constitute the United States
university
The activities of the George Wash
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Congress in Washington. and who is
to be the exchange professor at Har-
ward next year. took leading part
in this agitation.
The Argentine system as crystallized
in the university of Buenos Aires Of
fers some suggestions for any pros
pective national university In the
United States. Argentina took most of
its constitution from the United States.
but it added a provision for education
which the trainers of our own consti-
tuition rejected. The suggestions
which may be had from it's university
system are in a way reciprocal offer
ing to the United States for the other
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from Spain and set up as an independ-
ent republic.
In the constitution which the Argen-
tine Republic adopted in 1873 univer-
sity education was specifically provid-
ed for. faculty of five titles was
created. 1t comprised departments of
humanities and philosophy, medicine.
law and social science, mathematics
and physical science. The university
regime, as it was called, has been the
subject of much agitation and discus
sion, and the university crisis caused
the government to take note of the
views Of educators as well as of poll
ticians. DR.. Ernesto Quesada, who was
prominent in the recent Pan-American
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ineton Memorial Association years. ago
gave an impetus to the movement to
carry out washington's ideas The bill.
which was several times introduced IN
mittee having charge of the subject,
declared the object to be the advance
ment of knowledge by means of in
struction exclusively postgraduate and
special and by original research and
investigation for the benefit of man.
kind.
The measures recently introduced in
both House and Senate. which indicate
a revival of interest in the project. fol-
low the same lines. with special pro-
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soldier" feeling in manner most pro
phetic, were seeking to have set Off to
them.
Early in 1870 Washington wrote to
Lord Bortecourt. then royal governor,
a letter. unfortunately missing, in
which he set forth the history of these
claims. but. not receiving an answer,
wrote him on April is long letter, in
which he protested against the public
wrong and private injury, said that he
had heard that the governor wanted to
know how far the grant of land Sc
lected by Walpole and others would off,
set the interests of the community and
of the Individual. Washington pro-
ceeded to inform him that the grant to
Walpole and company would "compre-
hend at least four-ffths of the land, for
which the government hath lately voted
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Plan for National Universit3

BY the constitution the Brazilian con.
Rress has the sole power to create
higher institutions of learning and to
promote literature, art and the sciences.
The most celebrated institutions OF
higher education in. Brasil are. how
ever, situated in various state capitals
rather than in the national capital.
This Is partly an outgrowth Of the Por-
tuRuese colonial system and partly the
result of political conditions under the
empire.
Sac Paulo. the capital Of the great
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Glorious Kansas.
VNyILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. e

V1YILIAM ALLEN WHITE, the
wv editor and author, was praising
Kansas.
"You can't smoke cigarettes in Kan
sas." he said, land you can't buy a drink
there-no. you can't buy a drink there
even in a drug store.
We don't hold in Kansas with the
heckler at the temperance lecture.
Friends, oh, friends the lecturer
shouted. how can we stop the sale OF
liquor?'
yer only chance. boss. is ter give it
away roared the heckler from a back
seat"
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e.. 500 sterling. the purchase and sur
vey Of" He thinks this will give
fatal blow to the interests of the coun-
try.
He then speaks for himself and the
old soldiers. who claim right to 200.-
900 acres of this very land under a
solemn act of government made when
it needed the fighting men. He submits
the order of council of February 18.
1884. and Gov. Dinwiddie's proclamation
on it, and asserts that the old soldiers
enlisted agreeably to the proclamation.
and that they put up a good fight for
the colony. He asks whether it would
not be hard to deprive them of the
just reward of their tolls He urges
the governor SO to lay matters before
the king that his majesty will be gra-
ciously pleased to confirm this land to
u.s."
November S, 1772. Washington ad-
dressed a letter to Lord Dunsmere
(then governor) and the council, In
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Presidents WHo His Ideas Are Carried
ComhiIhe Endowment of Augusta Acadeny-lhe
EducatoPpoa of Great National University the Capa1he
and How Compare With Those o*lh Country
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in the southern continent: This is the
University of San Marco, at Lima. After
three centuries it still continues as an
influential institution OF higher learn.
ing, with a special attention to legal
and kindred sciences. The medical
schools are also notable
The University of CuZco, at the an
cient capital of the Incas. also flour
Chile has its state university at San
tiago, the seat of government The
university comprises a group of schools.
There are departments of law and po-
medicine and engineering. architecture
and pedagogy. The University of Chile
in many respects is modelled after the
German plan. with the concentric sys-
At various times German professors
have been employed.
The. Argentine Republic: has perhaps
the most fully matured and devel-
the southern continent. sarmiento,
the school-teacher president, when
representing his government in the
United States drew his inspiration for
and the public school system of Ar
gentina is modelled after the common
schools of the United States, and es-
pecially of New England. But the
higher education is a Spanish Inherit
ance.
The University of Cordoba, which
was founded by the Jesuits early in
the seventeenth century, and which
disputed with San Marco in Peru the
claim for maintaining higher educa
tion through centuries of political tur
moil and uncertainty, is national in
stitution under the direction of the
central government.
Cordoba is perhaps best known at
the present time from the astronomical
observatory, which usually has had as
a director some eminent astronomer
from the United States. The ancient
institution was reorganiZed third of
a century ago along modern lines. in
conformity with the plans of the govl
ernment, for systematizing and resu-
lating higher education in the republic.
The University of Buenos Aires, sit
uated at the seat of government, is.
however, the favored field for the de-
velopment of higher education under
government auspices. 1t acquired the
rights and privileges of a national in
stitution nearly a century ago, or
shortly after the Argentine revolted
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BY CHARLES M. PEPPER.

ERTAIN provisions of Washing
N tons will are better known in
II foreign lands than in his own
country.
The Argentine delegation to one of
the pan-American conferences that
have been held during the last twenty
years, in making recommendation,
concerning education. cited the will,
with its bequest f6t national univer-
sisty at the seat of government, as an