Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1906 — Not All In the Air. [ARTICLE]

Not All In the Air.

The incident below—which Daniel Colt Gilman. LL. D., late president of Johns Hopkins university, Incorporated in his sheaf of remembrances, “The Launching of a University and Other Papers”—could not happen at the present time, when each new Institution of learning has Its millionaire sponsor. It belongs to the pioneer period of education, when starting a college meant breaking the wilderness. A gentleman. President Gilman says, once introduce*! himself to Dr. Day, then president of Yale, as chancellor of a western state university. “How large a faculty have you?” President Day inquired, with genuine Interest. “Not any,” answered the western gentleman. “Have you any library or buildings?” "Not yet.” "Any endowment?" “None.” “What have you, then?” persisted President Day. The visitor’s countenance brightened. "We have a very good charter" said he.