Show THE following from The Outlook for May makes us wish that a few of those Wisconsin legislators might move to Utah to replace some of the educational anti-educational fossils our has been cursed with The appropriation of by bythe bythe bythe the Wisconsin to construct a anew anew anew new building for the library of the State Historical Society and the decision decision decision de de- to erect this building on the State U University ty campus are significant educational events The library thus transferred to the university is one of the three or four most valuable historical cal collections in the country and the general library of the State University with this accession will probably rank next to that of Harvard in the number of volumes it contains This however is the least important part of the action of the legislature That which is most 1 important is the spirit manifested toward the higher education Throughout the Western States and particularly the western North-western there seems now to be bean bean bean an overwhelming public sentiment in favor of placing the higher education within the reach of every child in the state This act of the Wisconsin Legislature Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- lature was simply a part of its general policy In this year of hard times and retrenchment additional appropriations for the State University passed the legislature with but one dissenting vote Wisconsin furthermore is simply typical typical typical cal of the North Michigan's generosity to Ann Arbor is comparatively comparatively comparatively well known but most Eastern people would be surprised to learn that the University of Minnesota receives es from the state yearly two hundred thousand dollars or the equivalent of the income from an endowment of 4 It is not singular that the number of students in the co collegiate department of each of these state universities universities universities uni uni- exceeds that of all the other colleges in the commonwealth and there are about ten in each The policy of these state universities universities and and this holds true we believe in every state west of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania-is is to make the tuition either absolutely free or so low lowas as not to shut out or impair t the e independence independence independence inde inde- of any boy or girl desiring an education While therefore the endowed endowed endowed en en- dowed colleges are raising their tuition fees with the increase in their endowments endowments endowments endow endow- ments the state universities are restoring and widening that equality of educational educational educational opportunities which was once the glory of the democratic colleges of New England The same patriotic pride which every Boston man may justly feel as he looks upon the new Public Library every citizen of the West may feel as he thinks how through state universities his commonwealth commonwealth commonwealth common common- wealth has given the lie i to the old charge that democracies do not care for forthe forthe forthe the higher intellectual life of the nation |