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Show Culture in Washing ton r .""' ' ' ' " 1 It " " " " ! J 1 The "Spirit of St. Louis" in the National Museum. Pri'parod by Ike National U-nitrophlc Society WuxhinKtuii. D. C-WNU Soivlce. MA XV forces make Washington, the nation's capital, a cultural cul-tural c ntcr. They How from I the government itself, con- eernod as it is with broad cultural i problems and developing within its J departments educational resources of j great value; a'oni the many scientific, I Industrial, and other associations .located .lo-cated here; from the work of the diplomatic diplo-matic missions, and from five great universities. Among the world's great storehouses of knowledge Is the Library of Congress. Con-gress. It has more than 4,000,000. books and pamphlets, accumulated from the ends of the earth, including nearly every book printed in America and the most prized of foreign publications. publi-cations. The most complete collection of Russian and Chinese literature is preserved here. Then there is the Smithsonian Institution's In-stitution's collection of the proceedings proceed-ings of learned societies, constituting the most complete scientific library in America; and the famous Folger collection col-lection of Shakespeareana housed in a marble pile near the Library of Congress. Con-gress. Other libraries have become preeminent pre-eminent in special subjects, such as those of the State department, the patent office, the' Army Medical museum, mu-seum, the bureau of standards, the geological survey, etc. There are in all more than 200 libraries in Washington, where students stu-dents are always welcome. American education finds a focal point in the Interior department. Its office of education gathers data from all parts of the nation. Through experiment ex-periment and experience, It converts its information into aid and advice given back to state, county and municipal mu-nicipal school ofiicers. Think what it means to students to have access to the researches of the ! American Council of Education, the I National Academy of Sciences, the National Na-tional Research council, the National Geographic society, the Carnegie Institution In-stitution of Washington, the Carnegie Institution for the Advancement of Peace, and many others. Great Art Galleries. Of art galleries besides the National, there is the Corcoran, exhibiting the work of prominent American artists and sculptors. It also houses the famous fa-mous Clark collection of old masters and other items of European art. The Freer gallery also illustrates this combination, com-bination, with works of James McNeill Mc-Neill Whistler and oriental sculptures, paintings, bronzes and jndes. There are also in Washington private galleries gal-leries open to students of the arts. In such an atmosphere it is natural that seats of higher learning should develop. Five universities now give to Wnshingtotv'the largest proportional student population of any city in the country. In 1791 Georgetown university opened its doors under the jurisdiction of the Jesuit order. Second in date of founding is the George Washington university (then Columbian college), chartered by act of congress in 1S21. The Catholic University of America was authorized by Pope Leo X 1 1 1 in 1SS9 and is supported by the Roman Catholic church. It has a program of expansion to culminate in 1939-40, when the university celebrates its fiftieth fif-tieth anniversary. American university, under the patronage pat-ronage of tiie Methodist Episcopal church, was chartered in 1.S93. Seven of its marble halls are alrcaly built and in use. Howard university, for the colored race, was chartered by congress con-gress in ISO". For years Washington has also been the location for many secondary and pre-collegiate private schools attended j by boys and girls from all America, i Music, sculpture, architect tire, land-j land-j scaping, and literary life in the nation's na-tion's capital form an environment In which the youth of the land may develop de-velop a true feeling for the line things of life. Founding of Washington University. George Washington wished a national na-tional university built here. In his will he left 50 shares of stock in the Potomac (Canal) company for its endowment en-dowment "to which the youth of fortune for-tune and talents might be sent for the l completion of their education . . . and by forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves.', from those local prejudices, and habitual habit-ual jealousies . . which when carried car-ried to excess are never-failing sources of disipiiot tide to the public mind and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country." Pursuant to that project of Hie first President, Columbian college was established. es-tablished. The slock which General V'i -hiii' ii r willed became worthless. But in IS I!) Rev. Luther Rice, a Baptist Bap-tist missionary, formed a group to buy land for the use of s college. With General Washington's idea in mind, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun and others became patrons of the new college and raised a fund for its use. By 122 the main building, was in use. Two years later President Monroe, Mon-roe, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, Cal-houn, Henry Clay, and Marquis cie Bafayeile attended its first commencement. commence-ment. In recent years Herber Hoover, Caift;i Coolidge, General Pershing, Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of Great Britain; King Albert of Belgium, Bel-gium, and King Prajadhipok of Siam have attended its commencements and addressed the university body. Its medical school was opened in 1S25; in 1S2G the law school was organized, or-ganized, discontinued soon afterward, but re-established in 1SG5. It is the oldest law school in Washington and was the first in the United States to esablish a graduate course in law. In 1904 congress removed the school from denominational control and provided pro-vided itwitii self-perpetuating trustees, empowered to change its name. That same year it was renamed "The George Washington university." Its enrollment enroll-ment is more than 7,500. Oldest Is Georgetown. Georgetown university is the capital's capi-tal's oldest seat of higher learning. Its founding was coincident with the Constitution and the inauguration of our first President. It saw the Maryland Mary-land legislature raise "George Town" to the dignity of a city. Treasured among its archives are records of three visits to It by George Washington and two by the Marquis de Lafayette. When the first President visited Georgetown in 1796, Robert Walsh, "a student in the Humanities," read a poem of greeting to him. The university's origin has been traced to the little schoolhouses opened in 1G34 at St. Inigoes, Md., by Rev. Andrew White and his companions, who came with Leonard Calvert in the Lord Baltimore company to found Maryland. John Carroll, in 17S5, planned the founding of the school where it now stands. Three years later the first building was started, although the deed to land was dated January 23, 17S9. Today the familiar towers of the venerable university dominate a pleasant, commanding position on the north shore of the Potomac, called "Cohonguroton," or River of Swans, by the Indians. Almost disrupted by the Civil war, the university saw its sons in rival camps. But when the nation turned again to books, Georgetown's newly chosen colors of Blue and Gray spoke again of the united North and South. Succeeding years were painful; yet the wounds of war slowly healed and in 1S70 a school of law was added. After the Spanish war came the university uni-versity hospital; later a training school for nurses and the dental school. National Museum's Treasures. Nobody has seen everything in the National museum. Nobody could. There is too much. To see its l.'S.OOo 000 different specimens at the rate of one thing a minute, working eight hours a day would take more thanVt years ! This museum preserves all collections collec-tions of objects in science, history Industry, In-dustry, and art belonging to our Government. Gov-ernment. It Is the storehouse for specimens that range in size from the tiniest of shells and insects to airplanes, air-planes, automobiles, and huge skeletons skele-tons or fossil animals. The whole ,as been valued at more than $120,000 000 Because nobody could see all, only some of the most interesting thin.-s ,lre set out Tor public exhibition. These include fine examples of different kinds of animals, well-known historical objects ob-jects pictures, weapons, invent ions vehicles, and series of specimens of various kinds that have interest ami attraction. Properly arranged and 'leled, each tells its own slory. This exhibit Is so organized that visitors In simply walking throng,, tlle ,, ,ls gam a concrete impression of endless subjects foreign to everyday nr0 N Jy 2,900,000 persons each year visit the" The most popular single object to day la the "Spirit of St. I.o,ds," , , Plane flown ,y (,. ch,.,,lt,s A - bergb in his lonely voyage on the first nonstop fiigh, ,,., NVw y r on May 20 nd 21, 1927. You so,. , ."e original Langley yIl , Hie hrst machine purclias ro, u'J W,-I""lt rs by the Unite, s i government In 190S; tlc I (-Li.'ii I" 11 oircunn vlg , "n, Klohe); the first Lu.llv ' 7y -Imr items In Z of aeronautics. 1 |