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Show f THE .STANFORD UNIVERSITY. I B . . ;'j The university endowment of Governor I Stanford is munificent and worthy of the I : an. The amount so given is three and I I a half millions of dollars, twice as large I as the endowment fund of Girard College, but only half as large as the John Hop- j t kins University endowment fund. I The endowment of Governor Stanford j j 4 -'. shows his love for and pride in Califor- j !".'' ( . ' ia, but universities, like constitutions, ' I ' are a growth and not a creation. Univer- ! sities need other things than great finan- , :ial resources, although these are indis- r . . IMjnsable ; they need students who have . : ' attained, a certain proficiency, in !the arts arid sciences. It may safely be said that there are not over half a dozen , "tii versifies or colleges in this country 5 whose graduates upon leaving the uni-yersity.oitwllege uni-yersity.oitwllege could pass the examin- ' i r ations of the German gj-mnasia, the i - V ' i x ' . ' r-. ;.i f - i French lycees, or the English Harrows, Rugbys, Winchesters, and Eatons. The most of our American colleges are but high schools of a better order. The John Hopkins University comes more nearly, being a university than any other school in the United States. Harvard will rank high anywhere, bHt Harvard is a college on the model of John , Harvard's own .college, Pembroke. The United States will soon have another university which, from the pres ent indications, will rank high. We refer to the Catholic University at Washington. This university will in all probability take the lead in scholastic learning, using the word scholastic in the old sense of the cloister. In this university univer-sity the civil law will be studied as in the great universities of Europe, and in subtlety sub-tlety and refinement of thought Rome has ever taken the lead ; and the civil law has always required such subtle and refined thonght. . America needs universities in the true sense of the word, and in long years to come the Stanford University will doubtless doubt-less be such an institution. Higher education edu-cation must spread among the people before be-fore universities can attain to their true dignity, and for the spread of a higher education much time will be required, and the endowment of Governor Stanford will greatly help to hasten that time. |