Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-17
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II, 1919
OUR EDUCATIONAL CHOICE.

DR.. David S. Hill, the new president
of the University of New Mexico, de-
livered an address at the Kiwanis
luncheon last Wednesday in which he
outlined what he believes should be
the minimum activities of our univer-
sity.
Doubtless there were people who
heard DR.. Hill. as we'll as people who
read an epitome of the address in The
Journal, who regard his program as
too ambitious for this states resources
There are people who believe we pay
too much for the educational work
that is being carried on in New Mex
leo. 1t is costing a great deal more
than it cost before we became a state.
While ability to make and save
money is a great requirement it is
not the chief end of man. But If 1t
were the chief end-the only way in
fact by which New Mexico can be-
come rich per capita is through bet
ter education. If we would become
the most prosperous people in the
world, first of all we must become
the best educated people in the world
But, as DR.. Hill pointed out. the
chief end of education is the produc-
ton of better men and women-better
mentally, morally and physically.
New England is in point of natural
resources the poorest country that
God ever made, just as it is the rich
est that man ever made. 1t has no
gold no silver, no copper. no coal.
no cotton, little corn and less wheat;
its forests were exhausted long ago.
It is far removed from raw materials
of every sort But it is richer than
any other section of the United States,
which means that it is richer than
any other part of the world.
Along with the churches the people
of New England established and have
ever since maintained the best system
of schools in all the world About
the first act of the settlers of
Massachusetts Bay was to found Har-
ward college. Since then multitude
of colleges and universities have
grown up in the New England states.
The New Englanders. noted for their
thrift. were devoted to education and
planted schools in the very wilderness
before it was cleared.
The southern planters neglected
education, though they sent their sons
to Harvard, Yale and Princeton. New
England saved the southern culture.
just as practically all of the endow-
ment funds for southern colleges have
been donated by people of the north,
New England. because of her educa-
tional foresight has always dominated
the nation intellectually. as well as
morally Today her intellectual ideals
direct us.
President Lowell, of Harvard, has
Just made an appeal to the alumni
of that institution for an additional
endowment fund of eleven million
dollars. Princeton is asking for ten
millions and Yale for fifteen millions,
But, DIR. Lowell, makes significant
appeal and in so-doing uses SPLEEN
did illustration. He says:
There We're two great maritime
countries in the ancient world. One
was named Carthage. Carthage got
into trouble with Rome and was after
wards conquered. Carthage has left
not one remnant of thought of any
kird Carthage was great CONNER
cial power. She was the mistress of
the Mediterranean, but, she has left
absolutely nothing in thought, OF
which we are aware, of any conse-
quence to affect the progress OF man
kind. There was another maritirSe
power not so large. not so powerful,
that also was overcome by Rome but
that place has stamped itself upon
the civilization of the whole world in
such way that we cannot think
apart from the thought of Athens.
''At the present day America has
her choice as to whether she Will be
a Carthage or an Athens in the future
world. We can make ourselves simply
a great commercial nation, or we can
make ourselves one of the great lead
ers of thought in the world Through
our colleges il is possible, and essentiat
that we put forth our great in
tellectual power. if we are truly to
be leaders of the world"