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April 14, 1909. THE
Educational
OUR CANDIDATES.
It seems opportune to call attention to
the fact that of the total lt)6 candidates
for the ministry who are attending college,
133. or 67 per cent, are in three colleges
most closely connected with the
Southern Presbyterian Church. According
to recent statistics. Davidson has 62,
Southwestern 40 (not including those in
theological classes), and Austin 31 candidates
enrolled this session. Of the remaining
63 Hampden Sidney has the
largest number, 11; Alabama College for
.Men, 8; Arkansas College, 6; Presby
icrriuu v^unege 01 ooimi v.aruuna, u; |
Washington and Lee, 6; Westminster, 3;
and Central University, 3, the remainder
being widely scattered.
Estimating tuition, for which no charge
is made, at $50, the mere financial value
of the service rendered this year to the
Church by Davidson, Southwestern, and
Austin in educating candidates for the
ministry, amounts to $6,650, which is six
per cent on $110,000. The actual cost,
however, of the education given, is far in
excess of the fees ordinarily charged,
perhaps four or five times as great.
Here is surely strong reason why the
Southern Presbyterian Church should see
to it that her colleges have adequate endowment.
William Dinwidtiie.
Clarkesville, Tennessee.
A W A KIN I IN G TO COLLEGES.
Bishop Warren Candler utters no uncertain
sound on the subject of the
vearing of the General Education Board's
relatipn to the colleges and universities
of th? country, especially - the institutions
of the South. He says:
"It was not strange that many applications
for aid came very quickly to the
board from all sorts of schools. There
was nothing on the surface to provoke
distrust or to suggest ulterior purposes.
It may not be doubted that there ore
some members of the board itself who
do net yet perceive what some others
in the corporation really intend, and
even those members of the board who
are most resolute and definite in ..he purpose
to capture and control the colleges
??i mi.* country (touniiess persuade tnemsolves
that their purpose is entirely wise,
pure, and patriotic.
"But it is not safe for the educational
institutions of the country to he under
the virtual dominion of fifteen men,
however pure they may imagine their
intentions to be. It is such a concentration
of power in the matter of highest
interest of the nation as iio fifteen men,
however wise and virtuous, can be
trusted to exercise without abusing it to
the furtheiance of their own views and
interests.
"If a college seeks and obtains these
gratuities, with Rockefeller strings to
them, it must consent to be guided by the
rein with which these fifteen men will
urive it.
"For one. I venture to express the wish
that the fewest humbef of our Southern '
colleges will ever be captured and con
trolled by this 'General Board of Education.'
"
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