The Washington times., 1922-12-10
George Washington President
Stresses Opportunity For
College Students in City
He URGES AMERIcANIsM
Higher Civilization Achieved
Through Aims Of Schools.
Capital WieIds influence
By HOWARD l.. HODGKINS,
President Of George Washington
.. University.

.a., University.
It Is conceded by all that Wash.
ington has become an important
educational center, and as the
years pass is destined, to have an
Increasing influence in educational
movements. In its public school
system, the percentage of students
who continue through the high
school Is unusually large. In It's
colleges, its universities, it's pro-
fessional schools, the enrolment
has increased by thousands during
the recent years. Its facilities, in
libraries, in museums. in study-col-
lections of all kinds are not
equalled In any other city Of the
United States. It's scholars In sci.
ence, in economics. in the study of
Government and history are num-
bered by the hundreds.
. STUDY NATIONS REGIME.
Al. these facilities for the con-
duct and prosecution of highest re.
search In many fields Of learning
have been much stressed. But 1
would especially stress the oppor.
tunity here for the student in mis-
college years-in the four years
after he has graduated from a high
. WVCuOOi-Au Nuo OA8htCSh
TO twenty.two-the years when
. character Is forming--the years
when ideals are influencing the
plastic mind. would stress the
opportunity here for the col eye
student to be taught and to absorb
the principles on which this Gov
srnment was founded and to which
it must remain true IL IL IL to con.
tinue as the leader OF true
democracy in the world. "..
We hear much about teaching
Americanism. But Americanization
IL far more than the teaching OF
foreigners the fundamentals Of our
Government. 1t means to inculcate
in the minds and hearts and souls
Of the native American the national
idea! -
Provincialism is not an attribute
Of the dweller in the remote country
district or the small town alone;
Il IL an attribute of the city dweller
also. Local modes Of. thinking. nar-N
rowness OF view, ignorance OF world
affairs, are as often found in the
city as In the country. -
But the young man or the young
woman who lives in Washington for
the four years OF college life has
the opportunity-the compelling op-
portunity-to become truly national.
Here, with the constant coming and
going Of people from all parts OF
this country. OF people from all
countries Of the world. provincialism
cannot exist. Here the laws are
formed, here the executive admin
istration Is centered. here are the
highest courts of justice, the most
powerful in the world.
1IBERAL EDUCATION HERE.
TO live in Washington for q few
years is a liberal education; to see,
20 hear, to meet the men and
tional reputation and power, who
dwell here or who visit here, are
influences formative of character.
that will make for better citizen.
ship. And when to these influences
10 added the opportunity to pursue
college studies under the teachers
or learning and character and force
who form the faculties of the vari-
/. ous colleges in and near Washing
ton, the correlation and systemati-
zation of the Influences Of environ
nent and those Of the classroom
and laboratory produce not merely
the learned man or woman but
the educated one. Mind and imagi-
~ are facts related to action. More
clearly 10 the false distinguished
from the true. The balanced judg.
ment is developed more rapidly.
The specious 10 more readily de-
fected.
The student Of today is to be
the leader Of tomorrow; the leader
NOT In learning alone, but In the
sustaining and upbuilding OF civil
lixation. And where government IN
I'd be determined by the registered
viii of the governed, nothing 10
more important than to have an
understanding Of the principles Of