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Excerpt from The Unity of Learning
The Canadian university which accredited me as a delegate to this jubilee and inauguration is twenty five years older than the University of Wisconsin; as for Oxford, which I have the honor also to represent, Oxford does not really know her age. She is past the time of life when it is easy or convenient to recall the date of one's hirth. Unlike your university, mcgill in Montreal is a private foundation, owing little, if anything, to the state. Such institutions exist for the purpose, speaking for the moment only of finance, of enabling wealthy givers to escape the epitaph which might otherwise record the bare, naked fact that the rich man died also and was buried. How different is your easel I have never heard the points of con trast between the two types - the state university and the private foundation - put so cogently as by those who have already addressed you. We may well envy you that wealth of public appreciation which takes the form of -a large annual subsidy, - paid, I have no doubt, with the regularity of clockwork - and which operates at the same time as a guarantee that your work shall always keep in touch with practical and public aims. The beautffiul drives which your visitors have been privileged to take in the neighborhood have impressed on them the fact that the state has encouraged you to annex a public park and call it a campus. You do not permit any other university institution in this state to approach the legislature - you have it all toyourself. Notwostateuniversitimaswasssid yesterday, are supposed to ask for appropriations from the same commonwealth. How different are our relations with the private donori He is distracted by rival claims and con¿icting interests, and cannot lavish all his affections on the college of his choice. There are the churches for instance!
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