Show COLLEGES are not made bilut twice within few months our at has been called to the statement that somebody laving put down a round million or even half that sum we are now to have tho true american university to rival alio llio great dounda lions abroad is no reason certainly why people who havo money fur hie higher education should not i dulau iu tho of hoac anu i ws aln ir new in sonic respects at least an improvement on anything now established bilut alien wo contemplate alio frightful wreck of college endowments and of alie expectations of tho past fifty years in nil parisot our country wo may well pauso and consider i few facts concerning tho cornerstones of american college life however needful n pile of money may bo in tho development of an educational institution no college was c cr on dunoy as its cor ner stone the history of the half american colleges for men and women that bear tho namo of a wealthy founder is no exception tu alm remark vassar smith and WelleI ey came into being to inert i new necessity for the higher education of girls and tho wilh all colleges for women a alio fulgro will alms or foil according to the real demand for college culture tho breadth and thoroughness of their work and tho personality ol 01 their faculty wo believe that in tho ni certainly cast of th mississippi there now exists in iho coeducational and exclusive colleg ca for women for tho genuine education of girls and that iho multiplication of midi will either the patronage of tho best or nourish that most mischievous of educational thu calling feni iilo and academies colleg ca and and tempting green chool girla to put on aliu aire of the higher education aliu south needs onu college tt theao already named where a gool girl can be educated for two hunan d i dollars a year besides the opening lit alio taic to women john hopkins packer and other new foundations aro nourishing according to lii jaw of university life this law is that tho four vernera of every valuable college muil rest upon birst the supply of genuine college material of hard work in theio tho breadth and wisdom 0 aliu M femc of education proposed and the ability und consecration of the faculty those given ii oven to an built on in the everglades of florida in the absence of the proudest structure m iho grandest city willi iho biggest bank account behind it will only bo another magnificent failure wo heartily wish that our men of wealth could bo con that nu money can build or buy the higher education although diw and generous gifta may do much li develop nn that elands linn ly on cornar the ant of country had all colle goi our beginning and made their reputation in the dayn when groutt uan eat in pro clifair cli air with tho salaries youn city book and i worked to boarded themselves and thu verge of physical ical peril to euch noble recent havo been a ond in almost avory ln tanco havy greatly lacro awl ho power and alic of tha college aw boumil of education chopo nothing from luck and the probability la that you will bo so prepared ehlt forewarned nd forearmed all il challow cr will you lucky bulwer lytton and geran 1111 ca allo 1110 trees if groff n lore |