Show starveling COLLEGES early struggles for 1 existence of our schools school and the american college of the middle of this century like its english original existed for the work of the church if the college dies the dies was the basis of its appeal money and influence its duty say david starr jordan in the popular u science monthly was to 0 form a clat class s of educated men in whose hands 1 lie the preservation of the creed in I 1 the mouths of ignorant men the truth of the church would be clouded each wise church would see that its wisdom be not marred by human folly the needs of one church indicated the needs of others so it came about that thai each of the many organizations called churches in america established its colleges here and there about the country all based on the same general plan and as aa the little towns on the rivers and prairies grew with the progress of the country into large cities so it was thought by some mysterious virtue of inward expansion these little schools in time would grow to be great universities versi ties and in this optimistic spirit the future was forestalled and the schools were called universities from tho the beginning As time went on it appeared that a university could not be made without money and the source of money must be outside the schools and so has ensued a long struggle between the american c college collage 01 and the wolf at the door a tedious belittling conflict which has dune done much to lower the name and dig anity of higher education to this educational planting without watering repeated again and again east and west north and south musi must be ascribed the unnaturally severe struggle for existence through which our colleges have been forced to pass the poor wark low salaries and humiliating milia ting economies of the american college professor the natural end of whom according to dr holmes is starvation |