"My country, 'tis of thee!" Or, the United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition.

CHAPTER XXV.

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THE HIGHER EDUCATION.

A land full of colleges--How these institutions began to exist--Tributes to American regard for intelligence and education--Something better needed--No lack of money--Views of Presidents Dwight of Yale, Eliot of Harvard, McCosh of Princeton, White of Cornell, Bartlett of Dartmouth, and Gilman of Johns Hopkins--Bishop Potter on the place of the scholar in America.....566