Show A New York city paper has this item HemPof A V Williams Jackson of Columbia Colum-bia university Tvlll leave l for India on January 25th In the Interest of the department de-partment or Indolranlan languages and literatures In tho university Ho will mako An attempt to penetrate Afghanistan through the Khybcr pass and will study the customs and religious ceremonies oC tho Parsees and Hindus He will visit the Indian caves and collect material for liljj l lecture courses at Columbia He expects ex-pects to return In Juno No doubt the great university desires de-sires to draw to it all the learning and all the knowledge possible but In I considering the above the remark made by Abram Hewitt the other I night comes to mind when he made a plea that some of the money used in the socalled higher education be devoted de-voted to giving the poor better homes and In teaching poor children how to h perform some oC the practical work of the world The theory of this Republic Re-public Is that the greatest good should be for the greatest number of the Republics i Re-publics children It Is a good theory I pity It cannot be practiced more |