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Show i FOR A NIGHT UNIVERSITY HIGHER INSTITUTION OF LEARNING LEARN-ING TO RUN FOR THE DAILY TOILER. Flnt School ver Founded Where Student Could Punue Collegiate Course After Work of Day Wat Done. In tho targer cities of tho land people peo-ple havo long been familiar with tho all-night restaurants, tho owl cars that tun ut Intervals all night long, nnd olhor all-night features of swift metropolitan metro-politan llfo. .Recently In Now York thoro has been opened an all-night bank, and Chicago and other cities aro arranging to follow tho oxnmplo thus set, but up to the prosont tlmo no ono lias ever thought of tho night university. Thoro has been tho night school for Instruction In tho elementary branches branch-es of the English language and for, special courses In bookkcoplng, ste- Prof. L. D. Rovers, Dean of Night University. nogr.tphy and typewriting, mechanical drawing, etc., which would fit for a business carcor, and then thero havo been tho educational lecture courses under tho direction of the university oxteuslon work of tho various universities univer-sities which havo been conducted at night, and then thero has been tho night law school, and the night med-icnl med-icnl college, whore those employed during the day could fit themselves for professional life, but thero has never been any school whoro ono could pursue a complete university courso at right. But now It seems there Is to be such a school founded, and Chicago Is the place whoro It Is to be located. It Is said all tho do-tails do-tails of organization havo been per fected, tho land purchased nnd tho plans for the buildings drawn. Incorporation In-corporation papers havo been fllod nt Springfield asking for charter for tho "Chicago Night University. Tho Incorporators In-corporators aro Mrs. Marguorlte War-run War-run Sprlngor, foundor; Prof.. L. D. Rogors, Prof. Rufus Wright, Dr. Paul llurmastor, Hon. Willis Goorgo Emerson, Emer-son, Prof. A. M. Kllloy, Prof. C. O. Smith and Dr. Ida Wright Rogers. Ground for tho buildings has been purchased on La Sallo street, opposite Lincoln park, an Ideal location. The Chlcngo Night Unlvorslty will Ihj open to ovorybody, young nnd old, rich and poor, mnlo and female It will offer special advantages to those who are employed during tho day and who wish to gain an education, oithor In tho liberal arts, medlclno, tho law, electrical engineering, dentistry, pharmacy phar-macy or any othor branches taught In universities. It will nlso havo a preparatory school, so tnat those who havo had to leave high school boforo graduation can get tho knowledge necessary to pt'ss tho state examination and to en-tor en-tor tho unlvorslty propor. 'Dr. Rogors, prcsldont of tho now university, Is a man something after tho character of tho lato Dr. Harper, vrho was ouo of his most Intimate trlends. In spenking of the purposes of tho Night University Mrs. Springer said said thoy at' tended ono way, to make the complete man, or to mako the man complete. "An all night unlvorslty In tho con-tor con-tor of tho city Is what I have boen planning for years," said Mrs. Springer. Spring-er. "Ours will bo a place where a young man, who Is going to get knowledge knowl-edge whothet or no, can earn his salary sal-ary In office work, or as a mechanic, or clork, or ovon day laborer, and got nt night tho best Instruction, bo taught by tho best procoptors, and have access ac-cess to .h'j best books and Instruments. Instru-ments. "Tho night unlvorslty student will have to do In three hours what the day studont has all day to do. But he will bo wanting an education, not Doing Do-ing forced to get one, for family pride, or In order to got a title that will distinguish dis-tinguish hliu from his fellows. "Titles mean nothing In themsolves, but every American would llko to hnvo ono, no matter what he may say. Tho marked dlfforonco botweon Amor-, lean titles and those of a foreign country llos In tho fact that the American Amer-ican must generally earn his, white the foreigner has his conferred or he Inherits It. "If a department store clerk graduates grad-uates In medlclno or tho law, or In one of tho fine arts, tho title he acquires In that way Is tho stamp of worth. It recommends tho man at onco. He worked for It." |