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pediting procedure and better insuring 

 justice and equity. 



Here the academic side of the work of 

 many governmental bureaus and commis- 

 sions could be broadly studied, with the 

 aid of the men who are in the midst of ad- 

 ministrative experiences. Thus help might 

 be given to the work of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission, the State and National 

 Pood and Drugs Board, the Census Bureau, 

 the state and national geological surveys, the 

 Patent Office, the Pension Office, the Plant 

 and Animal Breeding sections of the Bu- 

 reaus of Plant and Animal Industry, also 

 the Meat Inspection Service, the Forest Serv- 

 ice, the Biological Survey, the Labor Bu- 

 reau, the Bureau of Standards — but there 

 are too many to enumerate. 



And why should such a university not 

 find ways and means of serving the great 

 national voluntary organizations, such as 

 the American Federation of Woman's 

 Clubs, the American Federation of Labor, 

 the Chamber of Commerce of the United 

 States, recently established in Washington, 

 the National Education Association, the 

 reorganized Farmers National Congress, 

 the American Breeders Association, and 

 the American Manufacturers Association? 

 That a really national university represent 

 all interests, there is need that it be under 

 guidance by the people, not by mere aca- 

 demicians nor by politicians. Mr. Bush- 

 Brown's proposal that the regency be in 

 part nominated by the great federated 

 bodies of voluntary nonprofit earning so- 

 cieties of the people, as those mentioned 

 above, and in part chosen by the President, 

 would accomplish this need. 



Such a method of uniting for a common 

 purpose to study and reach the truth con- 

 cerning questions affecting all classes would 

 be the beginning of a broader viewpoint 

 among all classes, as between capital and 

 labor, between producer and transporter, 



between farmers and manufacturers. The 

 presence of a representative of the Ameri- 

 can Manufacturers Association would in- 

 sure the cooperation of that body. The 

 presence of a woman from the American 

 Federation of Woman 's Clubs would insure 

 greater activity in research so greatly 

 needed in relation to home making. The 

 presence of a representative of the Ameri- 

 can Federation of Arts would insure that 

 the major arts of expression, as oratory, 

 music, painting and sculpture, would be 

 given a larger leadership. A member rep- 

 resenting genetic organizations would help 

 to bring forward eugenic, as well as 

 euthenic, improvements in the race. Labor 

 and capital would here be welded to- 

 gether in a flux of scientific facts. The 

 presence of representatives of religious, 

 ethical and political economic organizations 

 would not only soften down animosities but 

 would aid in bringing about an equitable 

 division of wealth and more nearly uni- 

 form opportunities for all. Thus it would 

 not be an over-university, dominated by 

 an aristocracy of wealth and an aristocracy 

 of education. Its roots, through these as- 

 sociations of the people, should go deeply 

 into the lives of the masses who work and 

 make our homes. 



Instead of rooms in a building beside the 

 Bureau of Education, it should be a great 

 institution on a large tract of land. This 

 land nearby can not be secured a hundred 

 years hence, and it must be within a ten 

 minutes' rapid transit trip of the depart- 

 mental laboratories on and in the vicinity 

 of the Mall. To wait to purchase land will 

 make impossible the future greatness of the 

 institution, and who knows but that it may 

 not be a world institution ? A few millions 

 invested in land will be its greatest assur- 

 ance of a broad basis and of a wonderful 

 future. A goodly allowance of land will 

 give opportunity to here work out much 



