Last Friday's issue of the Evening Post contains an admirable letter on the oft repeated cry for an American university of the English stamp. This premature call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational character of the people. Growth of learning and of colleges or universities must go hand in hand. America is not ready for a German or English university until Americans as a body are ready to be university students. What America needs to-day is more earnest scholars; more devoted, ambitious devotees to learning and intellectual pursuits, and then the much hoped for "university" will come of itself.
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