Show ELLIOT of Il harvard arvard university was s peaking it before the st louis merchants the other jay day ani took occasion to state that the west was controlled politically by imi ignorance orance ile he instructed to see that the education be C ex tended year hy by year until the west was as well blessed educationally agthe as alio cast casl the effect all act was so go apparently unfavorable enfa voi able that lie abruptly stopped liis his address and left the liall hall it is to the credit of the merchants that eliat they resented the impudent assumption of the inflated eastern pedagogue it also shows that little as tile the merchants may think of the voters of tile alio west test they do 10 not propose that a Il harvard arvard president with the manners of an all ill bred and conceited school master shall lightly and publicly tell them of what lie deems their ignorance what a contempt for education such men inen beget in the minds of the typical westerner Ne westerner sterner we doubt if any any we steiner is ignorant L enough to be 0 guilty of so autra 0 cou 1 a i breach of common decency as this same 11 harvard arvard president |