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within the United States, nor produce any argument to prove 

 that the East has contributed a fair quota to the statesmanship 

 of our country as well as to the classes of the governed. 



THE OLD HOME 



To many a man in the West, the East has for long been the 

 old home — so many in the West have themselves migrated from 

 the East, so many are the sons or daughters of eastern parents 

 now settled in the newer coimtry. When the institution I have 

 the honor of serving issued the first booklet of its summer school 

 for teachers, copies foimd their way here. It was most interest- 

 ing to observe the instant response of western editors. Re- 

 quests immediately began to be received for the use of halftones 

 or for the purchase of photographs for printing, so suggestive 

 of the old home to dwellers on the prairies were the illustrations 

 of the booklet. Recently we came West to the great University 

 of Illinois in our search for a man for the headship of an 

 important department. The man we chose was attracted by the 

 great company of distinguished scholars and scientific men in 

 New England whose ranks he was invited to join. Our pros- 

 perity stirred him, for New England still has money to lend. 

 He was also impressed by our thrifty farms, with their fertile, 

 if sometimes stony, fields so closely adjacent to our magnificent 

 markets. But what attracted him most of all, and what finally 

 determined him to accept our offer, was the desire that his 

 boys should have an opportunity for growing up among the 

 brooks and the woods and the hills of New England. To move 

 East would be to draw near the old home of both his wife and 

 himself. Not unHke the tumult in the bosom of the foreigner, 

 when he thinks of the " old country," are the f eehngs of aft'ection 

 in the breast of the westerner when he thinks of the old home 

 in the East. 



THE EAST AND EDUCATION 



But it is not of the East in government, nor of the East as 

 the old home, that I desire principally to speak. The chief 



