Show An Eastern paper has canvassed twenty colleges a to their hopes and desires In the matter of funds They hope for an aggregate of tJ500000 In gifts at an early date and they desire 26000000 The Springfield Republican I says Harvarda hopes are placed at zero but its desires are for IU ne 10000000 Wo arc afraid that Gov Stanfords endowment to the Stanford university is spoiling those people in tho East they all want liner buildings Ilc1 buidings moro magnificent libraries apparatus for Investigating In-vestigating everything and highpriced professors They should remember that little account In the New TOsta mcnt where the rich man when he went lo pray stood on ho street corner and thanked the Lord that he wasnt like the chap over on tho other corner but Ibo poor devil he simply went oft by himself and cried to tho Lord to mayo mercy on him a sinner There is no use trying to reverse the old trJng rovere rule colleges do not make men they arc only helps at best The best thing to pray for is a glorified race of men if they can be obtained they will be splendid without any colleges Benjamin i Benja-min Franlclln bfid n6t many advantages in his youth but when ho wont to England Eng-land the colleges there nnd In Scotland were anxious to place his name upon their rolls and bestow honors upon I him because they realized that if there never had been n university In tine world Franklin to the modern world would have been what Socrates wag to the ancient worlda fountain of knowledge for his fellowmen |