The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-10-03
NOME, STATE AND. CHURCH Ak
s8AFEcUARDED BY PRIVATE
SCHOOLS or STATE.
TEACH PRACTICAL lDEALIsM
Presidents Of the Eight institutions,
Members OF Wisconsin, Colleges
Associated, Issue Statement
to Wisconsin Public.

| privately endowed college is compre-'
hensivsly told in statement issued,
By the presidents Of the eight institu-
tions which are members of the Wis,
consin colleges Associated.
/ The statement is signed by DR.. Mel
| vim A. Brannon, president. Beloit COL
lsgs: Rev. Albert c. Fox, president,
Campion College; DR.. Herbert p.
Houghton. president. Carroll College:
DR., Samuel Plantz, president, Lawr-
enoe College; Rev. Herbert C. Noonan.
president. Marquette University; DR..
William c. Daland, president, Milton
Colleges Dr.. J. D. Brownell, president.
Northland College; DR.. Henry C. Gull
bertson, president, Ripon College.
The statement follows:
| 1.-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
| by the persons and institutions CON
| cerned. Nowhere is this demand for
pounced as in education
"Our state supported schools are di,
| rected to stress cultural, vocational,
| professional and research studies.
They are prohibited by the state con
Istitution from offering purely religious
education, although they give splendid
instructions in ethics and welfare sub
| jects.
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
| ligion. For this particular reason, the
| endowed colleges have been the con-
| SENATORS of the high ideals of our
: Christian civilization and the guardi-
| ans against the Grass materialism
which precipitated the World War in
1914. Without question one Of the
strongest agencies operating today to
against the attacks of every form of
radicalism is the endowed college.
| 'sThe 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
| home 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 e efforts to encourage
idealiSm 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
to yield to increasing pressure for util-
itarian education.
Moreover, when we recall the fact
that many of the leaders in our state
supported schools were trained in en-
lowed colleges, and also when it is
realized that every superior idealistic
service in the state supported schools
is 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.
ut is generally conceded by leaders
in industry, education and government
that the endowed colleges are training
centers for that altruistic service
which is expressed by the slogan: He
profits most who serves best. These
schools have taught effectively the
idealism that safeguards our great hu-
man institutions, the Home, the
School, the Church and the State.
Advantages of Small Colleges.
Because of the small groupings of
students in 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
fects of these enriched, intimate rela-
tons are subsequently shown in the
life and character of the college men
and women who go forth from these
smaller academic groups to engage in
business, professional and government
tai 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, and because it offers intimate
training centers 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 may multiply and extend them
selves nightly through the present
and through the years to come in the
! lives of the sons and daughters of the