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Show floater west beyond the Missouri river and the Kooky mountains. WKSTKIIN ISrKI.I.IUKNCE. When President F.i.iot held forth in St. Louis recently and imparted to tho native Missourians some of his ideas of culture they resented the interference and fairly insulted the distinguished head of Harvard university. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing this incident which was well calculated to conlirm his preconceived ideas of our semi-barbarous state ho returned re-turned to tho classic shades of Cambridge Cam-bridge doeply impressed with the prevalence of a high degree of intelligence intelli-gence in tho west. In an interview Professor Ki.iot expressed hiAiself upon this .subject thus: The advance which the west has mado In educational ed-ucational matters in the 1-i-t few yerirs Is marvelous. I was particularly linpreel with the rapid strides which ail the -tate uni-veriitlcs uni-veriitlcs have made. Tlicy havo advanced wntulerrnllv and have I e.-omo hn uler ami more cenerously ecpiipi ed Iu every way. j These weet'rn coilefffs havo b"cn able, inniu to the trreut sclent Hie Improvements of tli-j ' last twe ity years, to make an advance which It toolc our old Puritan fathers a couplo of : centuries to complete. I There is nothing remark ablo ia this except ex-cept that it conies from an eminent source. Tho west is moving rapidly ahead so that ho who forms an idea of its status today may have came to revise re-vise it in ten years hence. The ratio of advance as fixed by 1'resiilent Ki.iot is as ten to one when compared with Xcw Kngland. Tho reasons therefor are not far to seek. The advantages which the great west offers prompts the best brain and blood ot the east to (lock hither and by contact with these au incentive for greater improvement is given to our homo people. Thus wo have in Salt Lake City for example a largo number of college bred men anil women in every occupation of life. Our university univer-sity club is in a flourishing condition and yet it comprises but a fraclion of the great number eligible) to ils membership. mem-bership. More than that; The theoretical theo-retical education received at such institutions in-stitutions of learning as Mr. Ki.iot represents, rep-resents, is supplemented by practical application and demonstrated in every day contact with the realities of life. Whereas in tho east a college graduate settles down in a musty oilieo to pursue a career of slow routine, he is hero thrown upon his own resources to cut one out for himself, and in this effort his best qualities become developed aud his strongest parts assert themselves. them-selves. Hence the marvelous advance noted by tho distinguished president. And if he had looked deeper down below be-low tho veneer of a mere school education educa-tion he might have found that the western west-ern men and women are broader in their views, more liberal in their ideas, and far clearer in their minds, than their brothers and sisters, circumscribed circum-scribed in their experience as they are, in the east. Hut to gather this information infor-mation Mr. Ki.iot should not have stopped short iu Missouri. There is a j |