Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-09-19
SMALL COLLEGES
STEM RADICALISM
HOME, STATE AND CHURCH ALL
8AFEcuARDED BY PRIVATE
SCHOOLS or STATE.
TEACH PRACTICAL IDEALISM
Presidents of the Eight Institutions.
Members of Wisconsin Colleges
Associated, Issue Statement
to Wisconsin Public.

Just what is the function Of the
privately endowed college is compre.
hensiyely told in a statement issued
by the presidents of the eight institu.
lions which are members of the Wis.
eonsin Colleges Associated.
The statement is signed by DR.. Mel.
yfn A. Brannon. president, Reloit Col.
Hege; Rev. Albert C. Fox. president.
Canpion College; DR.. Herbert P.
Houghton, president, Carroll College;
Dr. Samuel Plantz, president, Lawr.
ence College; Rev. Herbert c. Noonan,
president, Marquette University; Dr.
William c. Daland, president, Milton
college; DR.. J. ID. Brownell. president.
Gorthland College; DIR. Henry c. Cul
bertson, president, Ripon College.
The statement follows:
THE reconstruction period requires
peoples and institutions to carry on
without waste of time and energy.
This program of efficiency is based
upon clear understandings of the ma.
ture and extent of the work to be done
~ the persons and institutions CON
cerned. Nowhere is this demand for
sharp definition of function so pro.
nounced as in education
"Our state supported schools are al.
rected to stress cultural, vocational.
professional and research studies.
They are prohibited by the state con.
stitntion from offering purely religious
education, although they give splendid
instructions in ethics and welfare sub
5ects
Endowed College Stems Radicalism
ITO the endowed college, the state
and society have delegated the teach
ings Of Christ in economics, history,
politics, philosophy. industry and re-
hgion. For this particular reason, the
endowed colleges have been the con
SENATORS of the high ideals of our
Christian civilization and the guard.
ans against the Grass materialism
which precipitated the World War in
1914. Without question, one Of the
strongest agencies operating today to
protect industry and the government
against the attacks of every form of
radicalism is the endowed college
THE specific work of the endowed
college has been the training of lead.
ers for the church, at home and
abroad, for leadership in making the
BONE and the state. To all these all.
important functions must be added
now that OF furnishing the second line
of defense for our state schools in
their admirabl efforts to encourage
Adealism in the thought and life of
youth. Without the steady and sturdy
aid of the endowed college, free from
the pressure of politics, the state sup
ported school may ultimately be forced
10 yield to increasing pressure for util-
htarian education.
Moreover, when we recall the fact
chat many of the leaders in our state
supported schools were trained in en-
bowed colleges, and also when it is
realized that every superior ideaiistic
service in the state supported schools
As enthusiastically upheld and rein.
forced by the endowed college, we may
well appreciate the quality of service
rendered by the privately endowed
schools to American education and to
American citizenship.
at is generally conceded by leaders
in industry. education and government
that the endowed colleges are training
eenters for that altruistic service
which Is expressed by the slogan: He
profits most who serves best. These
schools have taught effectively the
Socialism that safeguards our great hui
man institutions, the Home, the
School. the Church and the State
Advantages Of Small Colleges.
Because of the small groupings Of
students IL the endowed college, great
intimacies are experienced among the
units of the student bod with their
faculty associates, This is an exceed
ingly favorable condition for the devel-
Opment of high character and con-
structive human sympathies. The eff
Eects of these enriched, intimate rela-
tions are subsequently shor~n in the
life and character of the college men
and women who so forth from these
smaller academic groups to engage in
business, professional and government
gal service.
Because the endowed college has
a specific field of human service in de-.
Veloping and extending Christian edu-
cation, because it aids in protecting
civilization against Grass materialism,
because it offers constant and sturdy
support for the best in our state
schools. aud because it ctfers intimate
training eepters for the youth assem-
bled in smaller groups, where high
character and development Of highest
ideals are especially stressed. it is the
belief of fnanciers, and leading stu.
dents in education that the endowed
college affords one of the best dividend
paying investments in our day In 9TH
er words. men of leadership and
wealth raay multiply and extend them.
solves nightly through the present
aud through the years to come in the
lives of the sons and daughters OF the