The proposed establishment of a new university in California revives the old discussion of the comparative merits of a western and an eastern college. It is maintained that the success of a university does not depend upon its financial resources wholly, but that time and a high standard of instruction are fully as essential. Now that an truly extraordinary opportunity is offered to the West to try the experiment of carrying on a great educational institution, we hope that some attempt will be made to raise the standard of instruction in the West, and that the present complaints against the conduct of western colleges as compared with the government of those in the East will be no longer justly made. We wish the new university every success, and trust that in it we shall at no distant day recognize the leading college of the West.
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