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of expression. It is only in the applica- 

 tion and use of these major arts to the 

 daily life of all the people that we can as 

 a, nation attain our inalienable rights to 

 life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — 

 happiness that is spiritual and not merely 

 physical. It is the lack of this intellectual 

 and spiritual resource within ourselves that 

 is the cause of so much discontent and 

 misery among our people. Depriving the 

 youth of the land of these higher things of 

 life is robbing them of their birthright as 

 citizens of this great republic. Therefore 

 such a national university devoted to these 

 higher aspirations of the soul is just as 

 much a national need and a national duty 

 as the primary school, and without which 

 our educational pyramid has no apex. 



Such a university in no way competes 

 with or interferes with those state and de- 

 nominational institutions which already 

 exist, but by cooperating with them and 

 supplementing the work they are doing it 

 will bring all our educational forces into 

 one harmonious whole and ever provide 

 them leaders and teachers along new lines. 

 By the establishment of local university 

 centers wherever the present educational 

 forces are inadequate for the needs of the 

 people, it will be taking higher education to 

 the people in a way that could never have 

 been done before. We have at present an 

 abimdance of education for the rich and 

 well-to-do; let us have in this new univer- 

 sity an abundance of education for those 

 who have to win their own way and are 

 willing, to give some share of their own 

 services to the nation in part compensation 

 for the advantages which the nation gives 

 them through such an institution of learn- 

 ing. Let it be an institution where high 

 pressure and haste are not the dominating 

 influences, but one where thoroughness and 

 devoted service may be an essential ele- 

 ment. It is not necessary to force all wis- 



dom through the human mind in a four 

 years' course. Study and research should 

 be the constant companion through life and 

 a distinct gain will result in having one 

 university wherein there is always contact 

 with active production, and application of 

 the arts and sciences to the life of the 

 people. Another distinct gain will be in 

 the holding in one institution the inter- 

 locking minor and major arts of expression 

 just as they are in life, instead of having 

 them separated as at present in various 

 institutions. By this means we would 

 teach that it is just as honorable to make 

 a beautiful and useful basket or chair as 

 to paint a picture or finance a railroad. 

 The quality of excellence, honesty and util- 

 ity applies to one as much as to another. 

 We are not all qualified for the same work, 

 and the infiuence of such a university 

 would be to make it more easy for every 

 one to find that occupation for which his 

 natural gifts qualify him to attain success. 

 Our present scheme of education is to 

 keep the student in an uncertain frame of 

 mind as to his future work for as long a 

 time as possible in the hope that the broad 

 general education attained under such in- 

 fluence will enable him to choose a vocation 

 more wisely. This may be true in a very, 

 very, few instances but it usually has just 

 the opposite effect of scattering the atten- 

 tion and inclinations while limiting at the 

 same time the horizon line, on account of 

 the very few professional courses provided. 

 The policy of most universities seems to be 

 to fence themselves in and make it ever 

 more difficult for the student to enter on the 

 plea that they are raising the standard of 

 the scholarship. If a Phidias, a Raphael, 

 a Mozart, a Galileo, a Shakespeare, a Tess- 

 ler or a Hirsehel, should ask admission to a 

 modern university by reason of his ability, 

 he would be examined in cube root, conic 

 sections, ancient and modem history, and 



