Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1882, Page 4

| | s 4 The Omaha Bee Published svery morning, except Sunday, The only Monday morning daily, TEKMS BY MAIL:—~ One Y aar, .. ..$10.00 | Throe Montha §3,00 Bix Months, 5.00 | One . 1.00 TFHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. BERMS POST PAID:— 50 20 CORRESPUNDENCE—~AIl Communic sations relating to News and Editorial mat- ers should be adgressed to the EnitoR or Tax Ber, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Detters and Remittances should be ad dressed to THE OMAHA PUpLisHING CoM. PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Ordets to be mude payable to the order of the Comvany. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E\ ROSEWATER, Editor. Just now Sullivanis & bigger man in the democratic party than old Tilden. —— Tae universal sentiment in Omaha is “‘not another street must be vacated for blockading railways.’ ———— “ Tur suffering women held their con- vention in Lincoln last week with the usual result of much cry and little wool. Wit twenty-six inches of snow in Boston Omaha can afford to forego baked beans for her delightf:l May weather. Tur Colorado land grab is receiving a general raking down by the eastern press. Every western settler is inter- eeted in its defeat. Tz rapid headway of the Farmers’ Alliance in Nebraska shows that the producers of this state know their wrongs and will apply tee remedy. Tue only self-supporting depart- ment of the government is the con- sular system, which reported a sur- plus last year of nearly $100,000. — OmanA goes the whole hog or none. 8ix schemes for a new market house are hatching now, that Mf. Webster Snyder's liberal proposition has been latd before the city council. Tuar Omaha Republican devotes two oolumns to the discussion of the msthetio craze. 1t's readers will now have a chauce to show their knowledge of “‘Patience,” 8xcretary Kirkwoop is urgiog eongress to put a stop to depredations on government and ‘Indisn timber lands. This is a direct blow at the contractors, which the Union Pacific lobby should squelch at once. E———— A CHARACTERISTIC souvenir of Oma- ha for visitors would be a photograph ot an old resident serenely roosting on one leg in tte mud, while the audi- ence from the opera house is picking its way across the crosswalk on Fif- teenth and Farnham streets, —— Enorasp has protested against the cruel treatment of the Hebrews by Russia, Russia would get in a “‘left- harder” by protesting against Eng- land's cruel treatment of the Irish, Sympathy like charity ought to begin at home, ———— Wiy doesn't Governor Nance call special elections to fill the vacaucies existing in the legislature! From present appearances an apportionment bill will be passed within a month'a time, when the legislature should be at once convened to redistrict our state in accordance with itsprovisions. Faurry as wost attempts at govern- mental regulation of railroads have been, they find their justification in the fact that in general business com- petition protects the interests of the sublic, and in the railroad business it oes not and cannot. —Chicago Times, Railroad competition consists in alternately cutting the throats of rival roads in & savage war of rates snd equalizing losses by plundering the public after a patched-up peace. Sep—— Some members of the city council are said to be undecided on the ques- tion of granting to the Union Pacific the nght of way through Jackson streot. If the city council consult the wishes of the citizens they will re- fuse, by & unanimous vote, the impu- dent request of the railroad managers. Xt is time to ory halt to the reckless donations of franchises and rights of way to railroads thvough the atreets of our city. The Union Pacific has y laid down thirty miles of side ip our streots and alleys until wl hern and esstern por- of | 'a trade ‘oenter is block- aded by its iron wall. In demanding another of the city's thoroughfares, the railroad management is only at- hnpfingh ut out a competing line from accoss 0 our merchants and busi- ness houses. The petition of our citi- zens this high handed pro. ogeding should bring the city council o a speedy decision. The Union Pa. cificboast that they control sufficient votes to secure the passage of the or- dinance granting the right to block wp the B. & M. depot grounds. Omaha will be interested in the roll call at the next meeting of the eity e2unoil. j THE UNIVERSITY TROUBLE. Tue Bee prints elsewhere the pub- lic letter of Professors Church, Emer- son and Woodbury, which presents their story of the troubles of the past five yoara in the state university at Lincoln. The letter is timely and interesting. It is timely because pub- lic sentiment throughout the state is strongly aroused over the star cham- ber session of the board of regents which resulted in the dismissal of those professors opposed to Chancel- lor Fairfield's policy. Itis interesting because it presents in a calm, clear and forcible manner the caso of the party in the faculty who have been antagonized by Chancellor Fairfield in his conduet of the university. Briefly stated the dismissad profes- sors charge that Chancellor Fairfield has arbitrarily sought to overrule the faculty in their endeavor to govern the university as provided by law, that he has opposed every reform looking to greater efficiency in dis- cipline, that he has antagonized all efforts to raise the standard of admis- sion and improve the course of study, that he has falsified the record of at- tendance in order to conceal the fail- ing strength of the institution, and finally that, failing to override the op- position of the faculty, he has raised the hue of religion to screen his own hypocritical incompetency. It is a notorious fact that the Uni- versity has been steadily failing in numbers and influence for & number of years past. The people of the state have refused to snpport the inatitu- tion because they belioved that its discipline has been lax, its course of study behind the age and its standard of instruction lower than that of many eastorn preparatory schools. For the last five years there has been a con- tinued conflict in the faculty. One party arrayed against the chancellor has denounced him as incompetent and arbitrary, und have in turn been denounced as atheistical and irrelig- ious. The public at large have been given no opportunity to learn the truth from either side, and certain only of the wretchedly ineflicient management of the institution have transferred their patronage to other colleges, whose reputation and stand- ing guaranteed the excellence of their instruction. It is a fact thal thereare more Nebraskan's pursuing a collegi- ate in eastern colleges than at Lin- coln, This fact alone is a sufficient commentary on the gross mismanage- ment of the state university. In the personal fight between Chancellor Fajrfield and the faculty, the people of Nobraska have no in- terest except so far as it involves principles or affects the efficiency of a university which they are taxed to support. The issue, as it now appears to have been made by the chancellor, is purely a scctarian one. As stated by Professors Church, Em- erson and Woodbury, it is the issue of & ““moss-back” educational charlatan against a progressive and liberal secu- lar educational policv. The tax- payers of Nebraska will be inclined to judge the entire subject solely from the atandpoint of the competency of the parties. The religious views of the faculty are mothing to them. Their ability to fill their respective chairs is everything. It does not mako a particle of difference whether Professor Church is a Methodist or a Unitatian, so long as he can awaken interest in the students under his o‘)urge, and keep his classes abreast of the latest thought on the subject upon which he is paid to give instruction, Ard on the other hand Chancellor Fairfield’s piety ought not to save his official head if he is incompetent as an in- structor, incapable as a disoiplinarian, and untrustworthy and unreliable as a man as charged in the publio letter of the professors. 8 1t may be said thaf the secret ses- sion and the snap judgment of the board of rogents has prejudiced the public against their case. If, as it is hinted, thero are good grounds for their action entirely aside from any religious objections to the dismissed professors they should be given to the public at once, and opportunity af- forded for their refutation before the next mecting of the board of regents. As matters now stand, Professors Church, Emerson and Woodberry have the floor, and the history of the manner in which the university has been conducted will do a great dealin opening the eyes of the people of Ne- braska to the true inwardners of the trouble which resulted in their arbi- trary and entirely indefensible method of dismissal. SEEE——— A BiLL introduced into the house of ropresentatives by Mr. Post, of Wy. oming, making it unlawful to kill gemo in the territory, except for food or for supplyiug the local market, is a stepin the right direction, but it is very doubtful whether any measure for the protection of game in the territories can be made effectual. eme—m——— Lasoger's homes is one of the greatest needs of Omaha. A profit- able investment awaits the capitalist who first puts this project into execu- tion, — Tue South wants northern capital and more factories and mills, The Ryan & Sullivan “mill” doesn't count, WESTERN RAILROAD PRO- GRESS. The plans of the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy railroad, outlined in Tue Ber three weeks ago, have reached a stage of definiteness th moves further doubt. Tt was eviden from the outset that the pany could not afford to depend on local traftic in Colorado, wedged in between the lines of a rival company. FKarly last summer the Rio Grande company, a purely Colorado institu- tion, which Gould failed to kill or capture, extended a friendly hand, and after pressing palms for a day or two, both companies began extensive work, the former on its line to Den- vor and the latter from Gunnison to tho Salt Lake valley. Both will be completed about the same time. The announcement made last week of the prospective lease of the C., B. & (. is the harbinger of greater events, the culmination of which isdevoutly prayed for by the people of the coast states. A third rail will be put on the Utah extension of the Rio Grande, making a standard gauge from Chicago to the iron, coal and mineral fields of Utah. The final extension to the coast is one of the certainties of the near future. The route from Iron City, Utah, through Central Nevada possesses several advantages over the Central, particularly in the important matter of grades, and it could be completed com- in two years. The Chicago Tribune, reterring to the reported lease, says 4t would not be at all surprising if, after all, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe were to consolidate, as both rosds ara owned by about the same people. By this means the companies, 80 powerful as to throw Jay Gould's combination into the shade, and they would not only be able to control nearly all the Rocky Mountain busi- ness, but they would have a better and more direct line to the Pacific than any of Gould’s routes, and be able to break the monopoly which Jay Gould has had on the Pacific business for so many years. In that event, Gould's purchase of the St. Louis & San Francisco, and with it a half in- terest in the Atluntic & Pacific, would prove a poor speculation after all.” Red Cloud finds cause for rejoicing in the result of the recent visit of the B. & M. officials to that town. The selection of that place for a division headquarters will go far towards crushing the terrors ot ‘‘spring fever,” and give it a substantial start over ri- val towns. The company is negotia- ting for the 1ecessary ground for repair shop ard round house. The company will purchase sixty acres of ground at a cost of $10 per acre to the railroad, the citizens contributing the remainder of the price of the land $30 per acre. The Chief is in high feather and extends the right hand of friendship, in behalf of the citizens, to the B. & M. ofticials. The Pawnee City Enterprise pub- lishes what purports to be reliable in- formation furnished by a railroad man tamiliar with the plans of the B & M. The most important of these is the statement that the company propore, immediately on the completion of the Denver line, to divide forces and be- gin work on the Hasting and Arapa- hoe cut off, the line from Chester into Kansas, the line from Pawnee City to Topeka, Kantas, and the line from Beatrice east. These four lines have been definitely decided upon at head- quarters. In reply to the question tion whether it was true that the Omaha and Lincoln route would be the main thoroughfare to Denver, the r. m, replied: “No,itismot TheC., B. & Q. must give the best possible adva itage to Omaha and Lincoln by the short- est possible route to Denver, and that is what the “‘cut-ofi” is for—to hold trade from these cities and western Towa. On the other hand, the 0., B, & Q. have recently bought the Bur- lington & Southwestern, and by add- ing to it sixty or seventy miles they will have a direct and the shortest possible route from Chicago to Kan- #ns Oity. Now, to hold the western trade of Kansas City, as well as Leay- onworth and Tupoka, they will build from Kansas City to Topeka and To- peka to Pawnee City. Lying between these two routes-one via Omaha, Plattsmouth and Lincoln, the other via Kansus City, Topeka and Pawnee City- lies this new route, crossing the river at Aspinwall. It will be the main line from Chicago to Denver. There can be no disputing that be- 2ause it is the shortest line and the main traftic between these points will pass over this line through the south- orn tiers of counties in Nebraska 1 know that the company considers this their most valuable property.” Cheyenne has been the viotim of misplaced confidence for many years, Oircumstanees beyond her oontrol compel her to ‘‘bend the pregnant Rlnges of the knee" to the Union Pa- cific, ‘‘that wealth might follow fawn- ing.” Every year she has made tempting financial aid to “‘the powers that be" to bwild in the direction of the Black Hills, and assurances were as frequently given of early and fa- vorable consideration. Thus the “‘Magie Oity"” patiently hoped on from necessity, for no man or men could be found to risk theirmeansinan enterprise of doubtful returns, isolated a8 it would be from east and west trynk lines, and compelled to live on purely local traftic. The citizens of Cheyepne and Laramie county are now nbout to make a final proposition to the Union Pacific —a princely offer of $400,000 in county bonds, to build- ono hundred miles of the road the present year. The lower house of the legislature has already passed the bill, and ita final passage is only a question of o fow days, Officers of the com- pany were on the ground, but failed to secure any material modification of the bill, particularly the provision re- ducing the grant to 8300,000 if the requred number of miles are not constructed in the the timo named. The determination of the people to secure the building of the road is such that the Union Pa- cihic must accept the inevitable or abandon the field. All eastern Wyoming stand ready to give liber- ally, and the Black Hills people would give it a preliminary boost of the most substantial kind, The proposed line will run from Cheyenne to Fort Laramie, 84 miles, and thence north- weat toward the Big Hornand Yellow- stone countries, with a branch from Fort Laramie to the Black Hills. The distance from Cheyenne to Deadwood is 260 miles. “It never rains but it pours,” is a homely saw, the truth of which the Black Hills people will realize in rail- road matters in the course of a few years, Though greatly disappointed by the stoppage of work on the North- western and Milwaukee roads under the compact of last August, Dead- wood and tributary towns are closely watching the progress of the Sioux City & Pacific in northwestern Ne- braska. The road follows the south bank of the Niobrara river from Long Pine west to Fort Niobrara, where a bridge, 80 feet above low water mark, will span the river. The bridge over the Long Pine is 92 feet above the water, and that at Ash creek will be 93. The route lays through a good prairie country for twenty-five miles, followed by the famous Sand Hills, through which the company propose to build, rather than waste time solic- iting rights of way throngh the Sioux reservation immediately north. The west section of sixty-two miles of the Milwaukee & St. Paul’s exten- sion to Council Bluffs is nearly all graded and bridged and ready for the iron. Superintendent Clark recently ex- amined the Larame & North Park road, completed to the Soda lakes thirteen miles distant. There is al- most a straight line to the lakes and for sixteen miles beyond, where it en- ters the Laramie canyon. The road will be completed this year to Teller City, in North Park, Col., sixty miles from Laramie. Henry Villard, president of the Northern Pacific, has decided to es- tablish a vast system of elevatorsalong the entire road, to the end, as he says, that wheat growers of the north. west may bemore independent of local traders, who usually fix an arbitrary price on grain. A San Francisco engineer has been commissioned to examine the entire route and decide upon a plan to facilitate the handling and transportation of the grain crop. The result of the trip will probably be the establishment of a miniature el- evator in which the farmers of the surrounding district can dump their wheat, and from which cars can be easily leaded. It is hoped that Henry has not taken his cue from the Cen- tral Pacitic managers, who trequently delay furnishing cars to the shippers until the “‘ring”’ secures the contract to load and ship the grain at express rates, The Pacific pool is again solid. The Pacific Mail Steamship compsny re- ceive a bonus of $95,000 a month to maintain rates at figures snfficiently high to enable the overland roads to secure ‘‘what the traffic will bear.” The former subsidy was $110,000 a month. Al roads bidding for through traffic are compelled to ‘‘chip in” this fund. The northern route is entitled to 60 per cent. of the trafflc, the southern 40, The New Mexican legislature al- roady recognize the pressure of busi ness mon of all classes in favor of rail- road regulation, . The necossity of such action is justified by the fact that local passenger rates are fixed at eight and one-half cents per mile and freight in proportion. A joint com- mittee of both houses of the legisla- ture has decided on the main features of abill, to be reported at an early day, compelling every railroad to re- ceive and transport freight from a conneoting road at the rates of the rond first receiving the shipment. The rate of taxation is fixed at $6,000 per mile. The question of establis] ing a tariff by law is still under dis- oussion, with a strong lobby in the field and background. The track on the Norfolk branch of the St. Paul & Omaha reached Norfolk last Thuisday. About a week will be requi to put in a bridge over Spring oreek, -nd then the track will be connected with the Union Pacitic branch and the Sioux City & Paoific, ——— NEVER GIVE UP, suffering with low and If you ar o depressed spirits, loss of appetite, gen- eral debility, disordered blood, weak constitution, headache, or any disease of a bilious nature, by all means ocure a bottle of Electrio Bitters, You will be surprised to see the rapid im- Enn‘unum that will follow; you will o inspired with new life; strength and activity will return; pain and mis- ery will ccase, and henceforth you w:{l rejoice in the praise of Eleccric Bitters. Sold at fit = santa a bottle by Ish & McMahon. THE OTHER SIDE: The Statements of Protessors Church, Hmerson and ‘Woodberry on the Uni- versity Controversy. A Strong, Clear and Convinocing Document. To the Citizens of the State of Nebraska: The present crisis in university af- fairs is of such grave importance to the education in this state that we think it our plain duty, as persons having direct knowledge of the facts, to state and explain the real issues, and rather to incur the reproach of impropriety than omit any effort in behalf of good education now seri- ously threatened. We shall, there- fore, show, as exactly as possible, the nature of the contest fought in the university for the five years past. At the outset let it be clearly understood hat religion has nothing to do with he matter. The students in the late o-called investigation were used as tools under a religious pretext; the regents were undoubtedly influenced by religious considerations; but, prac- tically, religion is merely a screen be- hind which the chancellor saves him- self, a cry to rawe the church on his party, a mask to delude the people. All questions of religion, such as the holding of daily prayers, are decided by the regents,. No vote involving religion ever has been taken in the faculiy, in any manner where the fac- ulty had final jurisdiction, unless the fixing of the hour of prayers be so considered. The line of division has been drawn on grounds of administra- tion and education. True, thisline has coincided with the line of religious views and of age; but religious differ- ences have been as little concerned in any real results as differences in years, n 1877, the chancellor governed the university arbitrarily. The law places the government in the faculty, and makes the chancellor its execu- tive officer. The effort to make this law effective first formed and solidi- fied the opposition to him. He habit- ually settled matters without refer- ence to the faculty, or decided them in advance, leaving to the faculty only the ratification of his arbitrary acts, or else directly violated the explicit directions of the faculty, as, tocite an instance, in giving a suspended stu- dent permission to re-enter classes when he knew that the conditions of such re.entrance laid down by the fac- ulty had not been met. Whether the chancellor should be held to his duty under the law was the first leading issue, and has remained such. Secondly, at that time the students were governed on a system which as- sumed that the faculty stood to the student as the father to the child. It is the system of boys’ academies like Rugby or Adams’, where the pupils are gathered in dormitories, subject to constan watch, with undermasters whose duty 1t is to oversee them alike in their play and their study. Its folly with us lies in the fact that the university is not a home, and that as the students are scattered, live largely at their own homes and are practically never seen by the faculty except in class rooms, the faculty hias no means of acquiring that intimate acquaintance with a stndent’s temperament and kabits which daily observation in a family affords, and which is the indispensable basis of suenhl discipline, There were no efinite penalties except the extreme ones of suspension, dismission and expulsion, analogous to disinheritance and these were never inuflicted; the minor offenses there was no means of reaching whatever. The system re- sulted in ignominious failure; it was ineffective as a mode of obtaining good scholarly work from the students, it was depraving in its influence on character, In one branch of the English department less than 50 per cent. of the required work was done, and the per centage of attendance at stated exercises was even less, Then forced by such necessities of the uni- versity, we broached and supported the system practised at Harvard and Michigan. This system assumed that when a boy came up to college, he had been provided by his parents with'l sound morals dnd predispositions to good habits; it held that he should be kept to his work by the sole means completely under the control of the faculty, his studies; it held that his duties in respect to them should be plain, the penalties for failure explicit, the infliction certain; it held that his life in college was analogous to, and a preparation for, his life in the com- munity, and that the faculty stood to him as the court to the citizen, held- ing him to his duty, not by the fond and relaxing hand of parental par- tiality, but by the firm and equable grasp of law; personal influence, re- moustrance and encouragement were included, but it wes thought impossi- bie for the faculty to practice these as a corporate body, while it was con- sidered the duty of each professor, according to his opportunities, to practice them in the intimacy of pri- vate friendship. - To support this theory & measure was introduced; it was framed to reach all minor offenses by light penalties, which, cumulating as such offenses increased in frequen- oy, should bring about slowly and af- ter repeated notice the grave penalty students who had failed in the Lin- coln high school; by the fact that the present year ho admitted astudent whose examiner gave him four per cent in one branch, and who is now wan'ing time and money and failing to paxs in his classes; by the fact that the un/versity contains several stu- dents who have been there for years, with no pofit to themselves and to the detrimen: of their classes, failing to pass ferm after term after repeated trials in elementary hranches, such as algebra and Latin,though one such at least passed with honor in the chun- cellor’s senior philosophy. Professor Hitchcock has said within a month that the standard of scholarship has steadily declined sinee he came here, and 8o convinced were the faculty of the need of a radical reform that they unanimously adopted a ecommittee re- »rt recommending the regents at the ast session to take the power of ad- mission from the chancellor and vest it in the faculty. True, the chancellor ‘“cordially” assented; but the sin- cerity of the assent may be judged by the fact that, while embodying a part of that report in his communication to the board, he omitted that article, and that, while he clearly had the board at that session under his advice they did nothing. Whether there should be an effective standard of ad- mission, and idle and incompetent students dismissed, is a third leading issue. Tn this matter we have thus far failod, Fourthly, when the chancellor took oftice, the records of the university were placed in his hands. 'Chey are lost. For the first year and a half of his own administration he kept no re- cords, nor are there in any in exist- ence--not 8o much as an official list of our own graduates —previous to 1878. civilizing influences of olde T culture and experience in institution '8 whose methods are proved to be so, und by their undoubted success, thei, * name and fame. Now all such prin ciples are practically obliterated fron 1 the faculty. th The chanocellor has always beetr “0° head and front of opposition to & T measures, always (ypanlx or in_sedte an irreconcilable foe. He has had no policy of his own save to aggrandize himself, sometimes by plainly illegal methods; he has brought forward no measure save a feeble ‘‘literary course,” that the faculty speedily re- formed, and at last entirelv remodeled; he has originated nothing, but has stood merely for the defense and con- tinuance of old abuse and the obstruc- tion of all reform. Looked at under any aspect, his administration from the beginning till the prescnt has ut- terly failed. Nor is it any wonder; for he has no apprehension, sympathy or toleration ftor modern ed- ucational ideas. Tn a true sense, he is an ignorant man; and his ignorance has not only made improvement 1n the university ex- ceedingly difficult ‘and unstable, but has constantly influenced the students for the worse. With his own depart- ment he is unacquainted; his lectures, filled with follies of mesmerism, spiritualism and phrenology, and with anecdotes of foreign travel, are destructive of all habits of philosophic thinking in any school of thought. His influence upon character through discipline is shown by the fact that, despite our protest, he refuses to en- force the rule of the regents making attendance at prayers compulsory, while by appeals in chapels and threatsin the hallway he tells students they must attend; yet he knows this ‘What was done 7 'he duty of keep- ing such records was taken from the chancellor, and the office of register created, and Prof. Emery elected to it. Since then the university has had a careful and accurate record. Fifthly, the chancellor's catalogue did not correctly represent the stu- dents in_ attendance. The effort to restrain the catalogue from lying has been a constant one, on our part, still notwithstanding our unremitting watchfulness, has thus far met with little success. Sixtbly, last year it seemed to us that the time had come for a thorough reform of the course of study with the purpose of providing a more thorough and various education, of allowing students to cultivate their own particular aptitudes, and toward the close of their course, to specializa their studies. After many and long sessions, and by many comprorhises, the faculty unanimously adopted the elective system, eseentially like that at Harvard and Michigan, and the board of regents approved it. But the sincerity of the faculty's unanim- ity was tested when a professor on the floor of the faculty lately said that he had submitted to compromise because he was in a minority, but now that (by the election of Prof. Collin and the absence of Prof. Aughey) he was in the majority, he would not abide by the eompromise. That majority recommended the re- gents at their last'session to restore the three term system, ‘and declared this to be consistent with a ‘‘proper” electi stem, and in actual practice where such system existed; but in the colleges to which they referred elec- tives are few and nominal; by a “‘proper” elective system they meant the name without the thing, and in our university the restoration of the former dlvisions of the terms wouud, in the judgment of those who made the new course, have proved totally destructive, striking as it does at every leading principle on which that course was built. This, perhaps the most important issue of all, was but just becoming real; and, intimately connected with this issue was just growing out of it, the substitution in the higher classes of a lecture and library system of instruction for the text bouk system, and the substitution of the test of acholarship by regular examination for that by ~daily recita- tion. These are the main issues, —admin- istrative control by the faculty as the law provides; a system of discipline based on the citizenship, and nou the childhood, of ‘students; a standard of admission; a perfect record; a truth- ful catalogue; a real elective course of study with its consequences in methods of instruction. These in- clude every measure of reform intro- duced, Through such efforts on the part of us and those who have acted with us in the faculty, the university was taking on the semblance, at least, of organization, discipline and scholar- ship. Ideas were passing into facts, um}1 in these changes men could begin to see the promise of a true univers- ity, We believe that a state uni- versity, supported by public money, should be ‘wholly unsectarian, abso- lutely free from any religious test of admission either for student or teach- or. We believe that such a university should contain, not children, but only young men and young women suf- ficiently mature to be trusted safely, a8 a rule, to their home-bred char- acter, their self-respect, their intel- ligent self-interest and the counsel and care of their immediate friends, and to secure such a body of students, rule is openly violated and debantly disregarded, and that this practice ac- customs students to disobedience and brings all discipline into contempt. He has, by his example, discredited Christianity before the students, and is himself held by some directly re- sponsible for skepticism in_the uni- versity. At last, seeing timt he was losing the educational fight, he has played upon religious prejudice and resorted to the most base and brutal slander, and by a sudden stroke has gained, on these false issues, a decis- ive victory. Now he—in religion a turncoat,in politicsademagogue, in ed- ucation a charlatan—is left in supreme control. It is therefore the duty of every intelligent citizen, it is the es- pecial duty of the great professions that in the east stand like barriers about the institutions of learning and secure and preserve their life, to ex- amine these matters and make their influence felt; for if the university fails it is their fault. Whether we or others occupy these chairs is of trivial consequence; but it is of the gravest importance that good education be provided in a state that can ill afford to waste its public funds, and for students who purchase learning at a cost of deprivation, labor and poverty, sometimes of heroic sacrifice, that awakes surprise and wins admiration from all. If the state wishes a sectarian college con- ducted on the ideas of a generatior ago, it should approve this action of the board; if the state desires a real university, vitalized by living thought under the influence of the present age, willing to be taught by the ex- perience of successful universities east and west, it should denounce this action. Grorae E. CHURCH, HARRINGTON EMERSON, Georee W. WOODBERRY. Buckun's Armica Salve. The best salve inthe world for euts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chillblains, corns and all kinds of skin eruptions. This salve is guar- anteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case or monay refunded. Price, 26¢ per'box. For sale by Tew & MoMaxoN, Omaha. A RIVE;’GNDER GROUND The Startling Discovery Recently Made by a Herder in Idaho, Idaho Democrat. Mete Green, not long since, while out with his cattle,made a most start- ling discovery, and one that may pos- sibly take its place among the grand wonders of Idaho. He was riding along early in the morning on the di- vide between Indian creek and Snake river, when his horse sprang aside, snorted and otherwise gave evidence of having heard’ something unusual. The spot was a little knoll on the comb of the ridge, and Mete,who had been almost asleep, taking a sweep around with his eyes to learn the cause of horse’s behavior,finally rested his vision on what seemed to be a hole in the ground a few paces distant. Dismounting he was soon looking into a fuunel-shaped orifice fifteen or twenty teet deep by ten or twelve at its rim in diameter, At the bottom of this fuunel—the soil giving out there —was a nftin the rock two or three feet in width by four or five in length, which seemed to open into the very bowels of the earth, Through this aperature came up from the depths below a terrible roaring, as of a leaping cataract, a mighty rush of waters, tumbling over we insist on a high and rigorous standard of admission, We believe that the chief function of a universit; is to provide knowledge that shall of suspension, This system was es- sentially the same as that in force— tocite too widely different colleges-- in Harvard and in Doane; it was de. nounced by the chancellor as ‘‘the rossest piece of inhumanitity he ever istened to,” and its advocates rebuked a8 having ‘‘no parental instincts.” Tt failed; but after an interval of two years —necessities of government con- tinuing —it was re-introduced and in » mutilated form passed. 1t is now in force, but is used practically only by one party, some professors of the other side never having once observed it, thm*h it is the law of the univer- sity. hether there should be acode of ‘discipline, plain and exploit, based upon the theory that a student may be entrusted to the character built “E in hig own home, so long as his wor . | is faithful, eflicient and thorough, and he brings no open and flagrant dis- grace on the university, has been the socond continuous leading issue. Thirdly, the chancellor, in order to swell the list of students in attend- ance, has pructiculls dispensed wi any standard of admission, This is serve as a fund of information, a law of taste, and a basis of character, and that shall be as various, as accurate, as complete as can be furnished, and that shall allow each student, after a certain point, to select, according to his own judgment and the advice of his friends, such studies for special pursuit as will best meet his native aptitudes of mind, and the require- ments ot his future profession. In these principles, as they underlie grest foreign and eastern institutions, we were bred; they explain the suc- cess, in education, of Germany, Har- vard and Michigan. Inour judgment neither conservative nor progressive 1deas should control the development of the university unchecked; but, 1f conservatism (is necessary, and long experience in western education is valuable, to the end that general modern princ:iflel of education shall be properly adapted to the peculiar ciroumatances of 'each special college to which they may be applied, it is no leas obvious that & progressive spirit, and familiarity with education else- where than in the west, are valuable shown by the fact that, despite our protest, he last year admitted several and necessary in a university that would not entirely withdraw from the rocks, The ground trembled and the subterranean moise continued unin- terruptedly, Mete remained some time and the longer he listened the more convinced he became that what he heard was running water, but how far down to the stream he could not even conjecture—might have been a few feet or half - way to China, And as the fissure was large enough to take. him 1n should his foot ship or “head swim,” his observation was not an extended one. 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