Show I I UNIVERSITY INFLUENCES President Ex Eliot of Harvard university has gone to Texas and is going to give i e a with ex graduates of or Harvard Har at San tn Antonio The rhe acCoUnt account ac nc- ac- ac count says there arc are a u great many ninny Harvard graduates graduates grahl- grahl ates in iii Texas It is in ill that way war the great colleges extend their influence The fhe good that Harvard university alone has done in fl the last one hundred years cars in iu the United States is inestimable If 12 a student graduates graduates graduates ates from Harvard and anti there is good stuff in in him he lie cannot afford to In wound his own self HeIr respect by hy doing any unworthy net act through his life Such students arc are thoroughly posted on public affairs and their influence among the people cannot be meas incas tired In that way the graduates of the great universities uni uni- in this cou country country Harvard Yale Columbia Princeton Chicago Michigan and the rest are arc building building building build build- ing up a better bettor state stale of morals and higher ideals among the masses of the peo people leYe le We Ye wish the government go would woul 1 supplement time the theother the theother other schools b by having a university of its own its students to be 10 selected by the tile masters of in ill the different states keeping out all unworthy classes and founding the requirements of or students on character and acquirements alone This would get getup getup getup up a generous rivalry every state would want its quota in the new university and a student to gain admittance there and to graduate with honors would have a certificate of character that would last him all his days It would join north and south and east rast rastI and west together there would be a generous rivalry It would improve all the other colleges in the time country and it would distribute through the country every very year a long list of graduates which could but ut have its effect upon the time public opinion of states and upon the best hest legislation for the country I |