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Show HI Redundancy of Starveling Colleges. New York Pi St. " .The passion for starting unnecessary educational institutions is seen at its worst in Kansas. Tho commonwealth sustains a state university at the capital, besides a state agricultural college at Manhattan, and there are several other so-called "universities," with a swarm of colleges. Moreover, although tho Methodists already have one university at Baldwin, they are trying to start another at Topeka, while the Protestant Methodists have a project for one of their own. The only encouraging sign is that one college at Dodge City has just been closed. The Atchison Champion Cham-pion says that this particular institution ought never to have been opened, and that the present supply of institutions far exceeds any demand that can be expected for years to come. It a dvises the Methodists to give up their their scheme for a new university at Topeka and make a really creditable institution of the existing one at Baldwin; the Presbyterians to consolidate two of their struggling institutions; and that "Lane university at Lecompton, which has for years been struggling along in a precarious sort of way, ought to go into liquidation, and the Protestant Methodists who are contemplating building at Kansas City, Kan., should wait until that denomination needs a college in Kansas." Few spectacles are more melancholy than that of an unnecessary college or "university" struggling to keep alive, and it does not speak well for the common sense of the western people that they should have so many such cases on their bands. |