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THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY The George W ashington University A Sesquicentennial Essay by DEAN E.L. KAYSER, University Historian Author of “Bricks Without Straw” THE CHERRY TREE, Publishers. WASHINGTON, D.C.
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THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY : A SESQUICENTENNIAL ESSAY A ESSAY By DEAN ELMER L. KAYSER, AUTHOR OF “BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.” LUTHER RICE AND THE COLUMBIAN COLLEGE. A university is a living, an organic thing. It is planted in faith and nourished by the hopes of those who look to the future. The little sapling may die before it ever puts down those roots which will draw from the soil the water and food which it needs for growth. It may be burned by summer sun and frozen by winter cold. It may be attacked by disease or eaten by insects. It may be cut down. Any tree planted by man’s hands lives precariously. Even though it grows from sap- ling to tree, it will always need nourishment if it is to live. The mortality rate of colleges in the early nine- teenth century was very high. Columbian College in the District of Columbia lived to become George Washington University. The founder, Luther Rice, with remarkable insight, was able to foresee the tree before the sapling had hardly taken root. He saw a university almost as soon as the College was started. What were the forces that condi- tioned the growth and development of the institution as it evolved from a small church-related liberal arts college to a large independent university? Of many, three might be singled out: the church, the city, and finances. The fact that Columbian was a liberal arts college was itself somewhat a matter of evolution, not so easy to trace. For the predecessor of Columbian was the Theol- ogical Institution in Philadelphia, founded by the Baptist Convention, three years before the College was started.
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