The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-14

determined It's liabilities be edgerkept But
and every student of beginning
ognze the fact that where commonwealth colleges nd
dual wealth against wealth is the aspiration of of
cultivated and cultured folks whereas where the states
develop peoples university spread among the
people the products of that university the thought
the people takes root builds that which will be of benefit
the greatest These the colleges that
democracy develops government find increasing favor
legislative chambers and find place statute
books.
great this intangible but constructive force of
wealth building that mdwestern state governor, who be-
fore elected declared that the state university had long enough
surveying big business and that when he became
going permit its sociological department longer
make research along such nehat he going to have
big business survey the university failed utterly in his effort
friendly legislature yet they refused to cripple the
states most constructive asset.
Notwithstanding faculty of great uni
versy conspcuousy absent through the BATTLE and the
nderenty organized and directed the spirit of the in
sttuton the accumulation of its of labor had
saturated the people that reaconary political faction advanced
to power did dare strike it hurtful blow.
much for what the alumni of peoples university
sciousy unconscousy do for their state AS to what they
do, the Of usefulness infinite.
recently the legislature overtaken with of
these rerenchment epdemcs decided the sake of po
expedency that the state might along for couple of
years like goat pasture rather than the civilization So
they decided to take University Illinois the
president university touched BUTTON fgurave and the
every Niddesex village and farm like army
night and to the legislature of Illinois there sud
denly came revelation They decded-not
University Illinois, but to let the cultural forces of the
monwealth marching rumphantly They made to
which the Father of his Country clearly and
undivided enthusiasm of his years when he
pleaded national university declaring that lit
only by educating the people, by the people that nation of free
can be made permanent.
succeeding the alumni of the UNIVERSE
beginning clearly how little they invest
ing potential The state universities compared
with such university Harvard still young. Nowthstand
European educators will that leading state
universities share with Yale and Harvard Princeton Columbia
Hopkins reputation academic efficiency total the
alumni of all state universities and will find that more than
half their number have graduated in the last ten years.
state university is cenuryod idea that has just
qured it's century impetus The state university
twentieth century idea born in the eighteenth century 1t has
it's Of understanding and of service
The rapid growth of the commonwealth college has been u
paraeed pedagogc history Because the child of democ
essential to the conservation of democracy its has
spread with prarere rapd Measure it's accumuatve
century rather than decade and will but begin
guess its influence in pituazng and humanzng the civic
and political forces of the nation.
Has spiritual power it merely maeriastic? Let us
look the direction is going and how wise state
and loyal and awakened alumni may direct it.