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inhabitants there should as regularly be a good public college as there 

 is now a public high school in each similar' smaller community. Be- 

 sides federal and municipal institutions there should be national ones, 

 not of the same grade, but for entrance to which graduation from a 

 federal institution might be a prerequisite. Whether these suggested 

 institutions should come into existence by taking over the " plants " of 

 the present denominational colleges or by some other method need not 

 be worked out in this article. Ways and means can always be discov- 

 ered when an act is recognized as a necessary one. 



If this is not done, there is but one alternative. If the denomina- 

 tional colleges continue to exist, and to combine general training and 

 education for citizenship with religious instruction, basing such relig- 

 ious instruction upon the contents of the accepted book or books of any 

 religion, or the interpretation of these books by any church or personal 

 interpreter, or propound any more definite monotheism than the motto 

 on our coins, " In God we trust/' and if these colleges continue to be 

 exempt from taxation then we must at once and forever abandon the 

 pleasant fallacy that in the United States church and state are inde- 

 pendent. 



