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Editor Nebraslcan-Hesperlan:. In a
recent issue of your paper I noted a
proposition to remove the university
to the state farm. It seems to mo that
the new housing of our alma mater is
a matter in which every student and
every alumnus must feel the liveliest
interest. Nothing is more inspiring,
nothing more truly educating, than
beautiful surroundings. And we ought
all to exert ourselves to see that when
the plans are laid for the now house
they shall bo for one worthy the Ne
braska that is to be and the university
we hope ours is to become.
Unity and harmony of place, such as
make Columbia and Leland Stanford
satisfying, ought to be provided for,
and on no less scale. The Chicago fair
and, in a lessor way, that at Omaha
have shown what can bo dono when
one great conception rules an archi
tectural design. They havo resulted
in a stimulus to architecture which is
now giving eastern cities really beau
tiful buildings, and is to give the Uni
versity of California the most superb
and extensive series of buildings of
any institution of ancient or modern
times.
Here at Penn, as at many other uni
versities, the effect of piecemeal
growth is in evidence. Penn has been
moved more than once in its history,
but is now settled to stay. Fifty-five
acres of heterogenous buildings
many of them magnificent, but with
out any harmony among themselves
or any proper landscape setting. The
campus is an irregular piece of land
with no room for expansion except by
tearing away blocks of houses. Doubt
less, once a seemed very large; now it
is full, and the university buying
wherevor it can. The fine, new law
building, soon to bo opened, is sep
arated from the campus front by a
row of houses, and the campus itself
is cut up by the city streets.
But Penn has waked up. Only with
in the fortnight has been opened the
new museum of archeology, by odds
tho most beautiful building in the
city; and yet what is done of it is
only a fraction of the whole design.
When completed, as it may bo a hun
dred years from now, it will stand
without a peer among museums at
least such as are now in our ken.
That is tho way to build. That is
tho way Nebraska ought to build
what we can now, but part of a design
that not even California shall excol.
Lack of money, need of room, discom
fort yes, but it is better to wait and
ondure tho need and discomfort awhile
than to keep to tho hasty, cramped,
barn-like style of architecture that has
heretofore characterized us. Lot us
have a great plan oxpond appropria
tions on architects awhilo if need bo.
Lot us build not for twenty-five years
from now, but for five hundred; and
if wo have that great plan, and If it is
kept boforo tho eyes of tho students
and tho people of tho state, wo shall
suroly have Its realization byo and
byo. Generations of students believ
ing in It will at last bring a gonorntlon
of legislators or a capitalist which
will give It to us. And if. wo must
build now it will bo almost as easy to
build a few archos of our great house
as many barren stalls. Of courso, tho
legislature but, wo aro tho people.
Lot us unlto. Why, ovon tho groat
Ideal will work wondors for a "uni
versity spirit" such as wo havo not
dreamed of. It will croato, whon onco
It takes hold of us, an onthuslasm
that will a hundred times moro than
compensate for tho discomfort that
may last a little longer. And If wo
gain anything at all In tho boauty of
our houso wo will know that wo aro
serving in tho host way possiblo not
only our university, but our people
nnd stale as well, for nothing Is moro
tho people's or more of value to them
than great architecture.
H. B. ALEXANDER.
University of Pennsylvania, Decem
ber 31, 1899.
AN OFFER TO STUDENTS.
Tho offer has been made to seven
teen of tho leading universities of tho
country of tho sum of $2,000, either in
gold medals or checks, as tho recip
ients may prefer, for the ablest pre
sentation of tho subject of "Modern
Education; Does It Educate in the
Broadest and Most Liberal Sense of
tho Term?" To this discussion many
of the leading educators of tho coun
try, including Presldont Gilman of
Johns Hopkins, Presldont Dwight of
Yale, President Hadloy of Yale, Presi
dent of Chicago university, President
Andrews of Brown, havo alrendy con
tributed In the pages of tho Cosmopol
itan. Tho debate is now transferred
to the province of the student. A gold
modal or check of $100 will bo placed
at tho disposal of tho students of each
of tho following univorsll'es: Yale,
Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Michigan,
University of "Wisconsin, Princeton,
Brown, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Cor
nell, Columbus, California, Leland
Stanford, Jr., Notre Damo, George
town and University of Virginia.
After these have been awarded the suc
cessful contestants will be invited to
meet at Harvard university before a
board of judges of national reputation
and an award of $300 will bo made to
the student who shall present the
ablest final discussion.
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