Show THE TRUE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY School at Valparaiso is Described by a Great Writer L Once upon a in a moment of I said that no great college in save barred booze and put the ban on This was a I forgot the University of And yet I wot there arc many eke women who never heard of And yet Valparaiso has the second largest University in It has an enrollment of There are beautiful and benefi- cent things being done at without blare i of brass or spatter of printer's that have never been done be- fore in the history of It is a school that avoids adver-f. because its limits are al ready taxed to care for the young men and women who knock at its Now here is the absolutely unique thing about It has not a and never had jf a of It was founded thirty-five years W ago by two young country school without except for a few hundred dollars saved from their It is free from debt and owns a y property worth over a million The men who have done this wonderful work are Brown and O. P. men still far from alert dynamos of divine Talk about government ownership our socialistic friends are there never or can a management equal to that of the of that it is the right Here is a university that receives no aid from the yet it eclipses any state university in the world in several State assistance to an educational institution is but with it usually goes the fussing of busy bodies and much political The President's office in a state school is a and so are are positions of teachers and It is ruled by a which in turn is dictated to by the Once a year or the president has to go on his knees and osculate the big toes of the bigwigs at the lie has to he a a a politician and in his report to green who read it with lack-lustre eyes and criticize him for not dotting his I's and making his P's Thus the time and energy that should be given to legitimate management goes off in Do you remember that great and good man of Beardshear of was a great and a great But his life was lost in battling with buckwheat and investigation committees who searched for rat-holes' and thought them worth looking A big man should he But a man hired by the state has only an indefinite reprieve his head goes into the And the greater his the longer his mental the more his plans outstrip the mediocre the more does he leave popular sympathy behind and the greater becomes his Golgotha and genius are always close to- Marxian socialism means the rule of the demagogue and the apotheosis of the Valparaiso demonstrates what two men in absolute accord can do when left The state has not helped and on the other side the pudgy paw of the has not mixed in their It is a school of The whole place has an air of earnestness that is most Purpose and determination are in the Seeing two thousand young men I looked into their faces and thought that if as an they would have rivaled Ceasar's invincible Tenth The sissy-boy and the mollycoddle were not has not endowed and so has never butted in and muddled the Valparaiso It has been And being it has set a pace which otherwise it never could have and Kinsey have never drawn money from their business beyond enough for a bare They work for board and All the money has gone into Commodore Vanderbilt once man who can't get along without can't The lesson taught at Valparaiso is that of economy of time and The next is that of physical The endeavor is to bring out than to impart Harvard has an endowment of twenty-two million yet she is always calling for Harvard charges one hundred and fifty dollars a year for thirty-six weeks' and table board at Memorial hall averages five dollars a The cheapest room in any of the college dormitories is three dollars a week Now look at Valparaiso's charge for tuition of a year of weeks is fifty Table-board costs one dollar and eighty cents a Rooms are forty cents to one dollar a You can go to Valparaiso and get your board and room for forty cents' a A five-cent breakfast consists of a halted rolled coffee or and bread and and each table decorated with fresh A ten-cent dinner consists of roast bread and and coffee or with dessert of apple How is this a business man the head of And above all there is co-operation under and able The student body is as fine a happy and brawny lot of young folks as you ever saw in your The genius grafter was never allowed to light at The student take care of their own the the lawns livestock who themselves are the student 3 Among the instructs J graduates of pew and One thing I never saw doi excepting in a Very and that is the use 0 students as with their features use stude but the pupils are Here students teach on the principle that by tea we teach jj teacher is always the one most out of the lessons-an j paraiso knows So ing good it Arnold of Rugby ki its value when he Sixth and turned into gentlemen by giving their Kinsey is a for setting folks to j What do they teach at taught at and a few a and clia h civil mining and domestic Above all they teach life s great whole the science of i man the helping yourself by helping The students are taught Jj and over that the human the temple of the Most to live a useful and effective la we must have good The inflexible rule is to graduate no student not at once earn his lira through the there is a big in and there are more positions open than to I If you want your boy to an education i bric-a-brac and decorate J send him to Valparaiso you want him to be sell- strong in direct free from both tily detested at do not know of a better P- this Hoosier Univ j v reciprocity are Hubbard J |