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founding libraries, is promoting technical education and is organizing 

 a great technical institution as the noblest contribution of which he 

 can conceive for the benefit of those working men to whom he owes 

 so much and indebtedness to whom he so freely acknowledges. His 

 great pupil, Mr. Schwab, while encouraging the penniless boy to begin 

 bravely at the bottom and to work hopefully toward the top, still more 

 emphatically declares his respect for learning, and his high estimate 

 of the desirability of more general education, by himself organizing a 

 trade-school for Pittsburgh. A very large part of the work of founding 

 schools and colleges a^d universities and every form of higher, as well 

 as primary, education, outside the common-school system of the United 

 States, has been already done, and is being performed more and more 

 generally and liberally and generously by this very class of men. Rocke- 

 feller builds up Chicago University ; Ezra Cornell, uneducated and once 

 in poverty, nevertheless gives all his surplus, once secured, to found 

 a university in which 'any man may find instruction in any study' and 

 interests himself most of all in providing for the poor man's son ; Hiram 

 Sibley, owing his millions to the same sturdy, manly and vigorous 

 spirit, fighting his way from the bottom to the top, finds his noblest 

 pleasure in organizing a college in which the education of the young 

 mechanic and engineer may be carried up into the realms of applied 

 science and the highest departments of professional work. 



Lawrence and Sheffield, Case and Eose and Eensselaer, and the 

 numerous other great philanthropists who have founded schools and 

 colleges, even the most thoroughly educated and most cultured of all 

 amongst them, it must be remembered, had no such educational oppor- 

 tunities as are offered the young men and women of to-day. The 

 coming generation is to be comparatively highly educated people, and 

 the man who is to succeed in dealing with the new, the modem, man 

 must, more than ever before, have something of that culture. Highest 

 success will only come of education and culture combined with a thor- 

 ough scientific, professional preparation for the most advanced positions 

 in the industrial or professional organization. In the past generations 

 few men were given, or could be given, even the academic education 

 of the time; to-day, almost any man who has the wish and a real de- 

 termination to succeed may secure a good education of the kind which 

 he may most desire. In the last generation the competition for the 

 high places and grand prizes, outside the then so-called learned pro- 

 fessions, occurred between uneducated men, as a rule ; in the generations 

 now coming forward that competition will be between men who have 

 not only the brain and the native talent, but also, and superadded to 

 all that the older type of man possessed, that kind of systematic training 

 which makes the intellectual as well as the physical gynmast, that 

 scientific instruction which provides learning that finds its peculiar 



