APRIL 1, 1902.-Submitted by Mr. DEBOE, from the Committee to Establish [To accompany S. 3943.] WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. CONTENTS. Report of the Senate Committee to Establish the University of the United Page. 5 Including― Reasons for a University of the United States.... Emphatic action of said National Educational Association in 1901... 11 12 Action of the United States Senate and its Committee since 1890.... 15 16 16 31 32 Why the long delay?... The Carnegie statement as to his original and present intent.. Hearings in support of the national university measure (supplemental to the Dr. Chas. D. Walcott, Director United States Geological Survey. The Urgent Need of a National University, by President David Starr Jordan, Rev. Frank Sewall, Washington, D. C., in review of Messrs. Carnegie and 91-95 Ex-Gov. John W. Hoyt, chairman national university committee.... The Proposed National University, by Ex-Gov. John W. Hoyt, chairman national university committee, review of Chas. D. Walcott. List of members of the National University Committee.......... Three hundred letters from prominent citizens indorsing the national university measure (being supplemental to 400 such letters published in the Kyle report, No. 429, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, parts 1 and 3).... 95 98 108 118 REPORT OF COMMITTEE. The Committee to Establish the University of the United States, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3943) to establish the university of the United States, having considered the same, report as follows: It is already well understood that the importance of a national university, at the capital of the country, has been urged almost without interruption, and by great numbers of the most eminent of Americans, from even before the inauguration of the Government, and in all periods of American history. It is also undeniable that the interest in the proposition to establish such an institution so increased, notwithstanding the delays of Congress, that, having in the past enlisted national organizations, scientific, educational, and patriotic, it culminated at length in a popular movement, led by a national committee, including in its membership not only such educators as the presidents of leading colleges and universities to the number of over two hundred, and the State superintendents of all the States, but also other hundreds of the foremost of statesmen, jurists, ecclesiastics, scientists, the heads of national organizations, and men of affairs. And it is further true that bills to establish a national university prepared by those giving direction to the general movement have been several times unanimously reported by committees of the Congress to which they were referred; once by the House Committee on Education, and twice by the Senate committee especially created on motion of that distinguished jurist and statesman, Senator George F. Edmunds, in the year 1890, for the purpose of considering the whole subject and of giving proper form to a measure which it would seem to have been the purpose of the Senate to approve, when duly perfected, almost without dissent. Nevertheless, during the long inaction of the University Committee (1897-1901) queries have arisen in the minds of some touching the original proposition-the changed conditions, the actual present need, possible interference, and embarrassments, if the university were once established, etc. And why? In the opinion of the National University Committee of four hundred, as stated by its chairman, not alone because |