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in it. Added to the natural educational 

 enthusiasm, that concludes matters. 



The older states did practically nothing. 

 They are only now opening their eyes. 

 Their ignorance of patent facts is as monu- 

 mental as it is stupid. Of course, the old 

 order is in the way. It is the habit of the 

 old order to question the academic quality 

 of the new order of institutions. One col- 

 lege president laments that the people put 

 their hands into the people's treasury to 

 promote higher education. Another chal- 

 lenges the applicability of liberal learning 

 to the industries. Still another says, as 

 bluntly as it can be said in classical phrase, 

 that it is all wrong to educate people out of 

 their environment. And yet another looks 

 through spectacles that are befogged with 

 the literary and philosophical training of 

 the ages, and stoutly denies that what ac- 

 tually is, can be. It is not strange. Nei- 



