FOUNDING GREAT HOUSES comparing the respective claims to american respect for a british duke and an american lord an eastern paper asks we wonder which will prove tho the nobler and more enduring monument to its founder tho the ren restored blenheim or the university of chicago blenheim la Is the castle which was given tile the first duke duhe of 0 marlborough for his triumphs as a soldier the university of chicago Is tho the object of mr rockefellers Rocke fellers immense charities tho the one came of 0 valor the other ot of coal oil the first churchill had no character out but he did have it a wonderful brain in many ways he resembled the first nopoleon napoleon po lecon lie had bad no morals he seemed destitute of the common pride which Is characteristic of humanity in general ile he was not ashamed to draw to himself position and wealth through weman comans s infidelities but tor for the same thin things a he did riot not hesitate to risk over a and nd over his own lire life brought up in the horse guards he became the first so soldier idler and statesman of 0 his country he had a robust soul sure enough in ili the crises of a doubtful battle he w perfectly perfect ly composed and it if his heart was accelerated by one beat no one near him could detect it but hla his brain worked with a swiftness precision and sightedness farsightedness far which always brought victory to his standard he was equally as subtle in statecraft it was through those these gifts that he obtained blenheim and founded a 8 stately house the world has well nigh forgotten what was base and unclean in his life and cherishes tor for him the reverence which comes when a human being demonstrates that ho he Is gifted I 1 above his fellows and that he possesses I 1 those qualities which in crises of terrible r ibi excitement and danger are sufficient lo 10 to mount and ride the hurricane triumphantly to Nic victory tory the house of rockefeller Is of this generation it has been made possible through the capacity of a a subtle human brain to 1 take advantage of one areat great opportunity ti un d I 1 presented by this country to create I 1 I 1 hot hold and control a monster monopoly marlborough founded a house to built ailt on valor and it if some of the cement in its smalls walls was base mankind forget it in contemplating the splendor which shines out from the doughty sold soldiers lers achievements the american multo bulto millionaire Is endowing mith marvel lous munificence a university which t effect will be best to the world at first blush all men will exclaim in favor of the university it 1 Is however open to doubt we do not discount the mighty benefits which attach to a great university but no university ever yet created a great man at best they are more mere helps and if the capacity or adaptability ot of the student Is lacking tho the university la Is as helpless to help as Is medicine to a a corpse moreover the rule Is in universities as at present conducted while extending know knowledge ledge to contract the vision and make invisible V some things which are essential to greit greatness in men and nations A land filled with universities would produce a nation of bug hunters hair spi splitters litters and self opinionated creatures A land filled with blenheim castles earned as was that castle 0 of j 0 old id would contain fi a nation 0 t heroes for no boy would dere dare come out from under those b battlements a atle and ever fall when a battle was wag on or a ship was to be hold held up in a torm storm or battlo battle for a school ot of manhood the castle la Is better ihan the high ly endowed school unless that school Is composed compared comp ered of picked students admitted on merit alone and educated for definite exalted duties in the life before thern them