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Show Just a Suggestion. A learned Frenchman who last yearmade an extended tour through this country, is now in Paris publishing his impressions of our institutions. institu-tions. Ho is lavish in praise of many things, but of our colleges and our universities ho declares that the things most prized are the sports and the ambition am-bition Is "to have the best rowers or the ablest players at football." Of course this is in great part untrue and unjust, un-just, but it is nevertheless, a natural impression. It is not worth discussing, but the wonder is that some man like Mr. Rockefeller does not improve upon the plan of Cecil Rhoads, establish a great new university on a new basis, teach everything that is taught at Oxford, but make admission a prize to be earned in other colleges and universities. universi-ties. Say it would require $20,000,000 to found such a university. Mr. Rockefeller could supply that. Suppose for 2,000 students the whole cost per annum for clothes, board, books, instruction everything would be $1,000,000 per annum. That from '1 per cent would require a capital of $25,000,-000. $25,000,-000. Mr. Rockefeller could dodge his flne and sup- . ply that. We think. the empire state would take that money and contract to pay $1,000,000 per annum an-num for all time upon it. Then give notice to the collages and universities of the country that from the annual graduates 500 would be selected, on merit alone, every year and made the honorary wards of this great new school for a post-graduate course. Would there not be a struggle for something some-thing boyond baseball and boat-rowing? We bo-Hove bo-Hove that Mr. Carnegie's groat Pittsburg school is something on this plan, but It does not adopt its students because of proven worth. To get into such a school as the one outlined above would be an honor to be fought for; to graduate from it would be to a student a certificate' of character which would open the most select door on earth to the holder of it. And the glory it would give the founder of it would be more splendid and more enduring than any other that could be gained. Think how old John Harvard's fame grows more and more radiant as the years roll on. What a charm would hang around the memory of a man who would found such a school as the one outlined above. And, moreover, what a splendor it would be to our country. |