Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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the Ohio State University was established, it found the field occupied by two score higher institutions, several of them bearing the name of universities, endowed and equipped by denominational and local enterprise and strong in the respect and good will of hundreds of graduates, among whom the professional and political leaders of the state were largely found. Michigan, on the other hand, coming fifty years behind Ohio, was able from the first to avail herself of the great discovery that the highest duty of the state is to provide a symmetrical and effective system of education from the lowest to the highest grades, open to all of its people and, consequently, its university has scarcely had a competitor during the sixty years of its history, within the limits of the SIMS. ln spite of these differences and disadvantages of the Ohio State University, it has enough in common with the great state universities to warrant the belief that it is like them sure of a future of steady progress and indehnite expansion. The grounds on which is based this belief for our institution are threefold and are as follows: 1. The State University, like all others of its class, is fn: It owes allegiance to the truth alone. It is under no obligation to maintain creeds and confessions formulated while the earth was still considered the center of the solar system. All our institutions of learning have achieved a measure of freedom. l or example, they all teach the heliocentric theory, the most revolutionary doctrine ever promulgated. They are attractive in proportion to the freedom in dealing with truth which they have achieved. But in regard to the matter of freedom, the state institutions are certainly in advance of the denominational institutions. Take, for instance, the doctrine of evolution, which is now as well established as the doctrine of gravita- tion, and which is by all odds the most important contribution of our century to the knowledge of the race. In most of the denominational institutions it is still eyed askance and such recognition of it as cannot be avoided is often grudgingly given, But freedom in the search for truth is the note of modern times. With a great price the denomina- 29

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tional colleges have had to purchase all that they enjoy, but the state universities were born free, and to this fact, though perhaps but dimly recognized, they owe a large part of the attraction that they exert upon the open-minded young people of their several states. The Ohio State University shares with other kindred institutions this great advantage and is bound to profit by it for time to come. 2. The State University is rich, lt has already a noble income, and this income is established on a basis that makes it certain to increase with the growing wealth of the state. This fact is in itself a pledge of the future. After all is said, such institutions must be judged and gauged by their revenues. It goes without saying that they must be free and in earnest, but what they can do for their students is measured at last by the amount of money they have to spend in instruction and equipment. Abundant income is absolutely essential to abundant strength and vitality in a modern university, particularly in one that undertakes to keep abreast of physical and biological science. The 340 acres of land which the University owns within the corporate limits of Columbus, is already a great source of wealth to the institution, and cannot fail to become a source of much greater wealth as the decades go by. It is easy also to see that they may be made to yield a magnificent addition to our revenues at no distant day. 3. The third ground on which we may venture to predict a great future for the State University is the fzrzmrc and zzwomz! rgf Me .rcrwke tha! 1? z's1'e1zdarz'1zg Me slafc. The value of this service, present and prospective, is, after all, the best pledge of its future. Ohio has already begun to recognize the returns she is receiving from her endowment of the University, and as time goes on, these returns are certain to become larger and more varied and the beneficence of the state will increase in like proportion. In its service to the state, we will not emphasize the courses lead- ing to the usual academic degrees or to the professions of law and medicine, and yet, it is quite likely that in the future as in the past, the most serviceable friends of the University will be drawn from these very divisions. 30