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already imitated, in the construction of 

 their State capitols, the Capitol at Wash- 

 ington. 



What you want is to have a city which 

 every one who comes from Maine, Texas, 

 Florida, Arkansas, or Oregon can ad- 

 mire as heing something finer and more 

 beautiful than he had ever dreamed of 

 before; something which makes him 

 even more proud to be an American ; 

 something which makes him wish to dif- 

 fuse the same ideas of beauty through 

 his own State as he sees set forth in 

 visible form here. 



You wish to have not only beautiful 

 buildings, but you want to have every- 

 thing else that makes the externals of 

 life attractive and charming. You wish 

 to have picture galleries. You wish to 

 have museums. You have made advances 

 in that direction already, for you have an 

 admirable and constantly growing Na- 

 tional Museum. You have the begiimings 

 of a fine art gallery, and will doubtless 

 add to it a national portrait gallery. You 

 have admirable scientific institutions of 

 many kinds, some of which will ulti- 

 mately be housed in buildings finer than 

 they have yet obtained. Some of the ad- 

 ministrative departments of the govern- 

 ment, especially the scientific depart- 

 ments, are organized on a scale such as 

 can hardly be found elsewhere. 



You have some splendid new build- 

 ings ; for instance, the new railway sta- 

 tion, with its two long and noble halls, 

 that yields only to the magnificence of the 

 new Pennsylvania station in X'ew York. 

 You have also the Pan-American r)uild- 

 ing. That seems to me to be one of the 

 most finished and graceful, one of the 

 most hapjiily conceived and skilfully exe- 

 cuted buildings that has been erected 

 anywhere within the last 30 or 40 years. 



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Let me add that there is one thing that 

 is still wanting. There ought to be a 

 great National American University in 

 \\'ashington. 



Through no fault either of the i)ro- 

 fessors or of our friend who jiresides 

 with so much wise care over the deorgc 

 A\'ashington University here, that insti- 

 tution has not received those funds and 



those buildings which arc needed to 

 make it worthy of the name it bears. 

 This is rather a digression, but I would 

 like to say. as I have mentioned the uni- 

 versity, that the suggestion that a great 

 central university is needed does not by 

 any means imply ihat such an institution 

 should be managed by the nation through 

 Congress, or should necessarilv even re- 

 ceive from Congress the funds needed 

 for its sup])ort. 



You will all agree that a national capi- 

 tal ought to have a great university. It 

 need not be of the same type as the great 

 State universities, nor set itself to do all 

 the things that ar:? done in universities 

 located in or near great cties. You have, 

 for instance, no great industrial estab- 

 lishments here calling for a faculty of 

 engineering or of other practical arts on 

 such a scale as those universities mu.st 

 have, placed as they are, in great com- 

 mercial centers. 



\\'hat seems nio.st directly needed is a 

 university dedicated to three kinds of 

 .study — to theoretic .science, to the art.s 

 and the "artistic side of life," and to 

 what are called the human studies of a 

 philological, historical, and political or- 

 der. There is of course no reason why 

 you should limit your a.spirations ; but 

 the more immediate need in this city is 

 not for an institution fitting men to enter 

 upon any kind of technical work, in 

 manufacturing or mining or agricuhural 

 industry, but for something of a diflfer- 

 ent type. 



^'ou ought to have a fully equipped 

 school of law, a complete and well staffed 

 school of political .science, and of eco- 

 nomics, and therewith, also, a .strong 

 school of history. You have already in 

 your government departments an unusu- 

 ally large number of eminent, itidustri- 

 ous, and distinguished scientific men, 

 who are one of the glories of Washing- 

 ton, and to match these you must also 

 have a like galaxy of men pursuing those 

 studies, such as history, economics, phi- 

 lology, and law, which are the comi)le- 

 ment of scientific studies. 



Through the liberality of private bene- 

 factors, with perhaps some aid from the 

 national go\ernnuMU, it will surely he 

 found ])Ossible before long to carry out 



