Show IT is exceedingly curious to note the I various various objections urged against State Universities by those who through i f ignorance or prejudice attempt to weaken influence and hinder their progress At one and the same time we find religious dogmatists classicists and advocates of particular technical education attacking these institutions To the dogmatist the State University is an evil because it favors favor free discussion discussion discussion discus discus- sion and does not give undue prominence ence to any creed to the classicist its tendency towards innovation is distasteful distaste distaste- ful while on the other hand the extreme advocate of technical education attempts to show that the State University holds to old ideas and prejudices and hence is not favorable to the new education We Weare Weare Weare are in the condi condition tion of the lamb lam b in the fable whom all the beasts ridiculed and blamed both for its faults and its virtues But the lamb was a good lamb never never- So it will be found with regard to the State University The results achieved by these institutions are sufficient sufficient sufficient to show that all this clamor is the voice of envy and jealousy each particular particular particular par par- advocate seeing in their success an invasion of what he deems his own particular field This sentiment has prompted one such person in the discussion discussion discussion dis dis- affecting this particular U University University niver- niver sity to make misstatements and to cling to them with the tenacity of dis- dis pair even after they have been shown to be utterly false But there is one advantage in all this when any anyone one follows such sucha a course as this he presumes presumes presumes pre pre- too much upon the ignorance of his hi's readers and hence weakens the I cause he advocates thus by negation strengthening ing the right |