The Situation

The Washington correspondent of the ipringfield Iiepublican thus alludes to the jloomy situation : " Civil Service Reform butchered ; the 5ankrupt bill butchered ; the currency uestion passed over ; the question of moieties' compromised in an unsatisfac ;ory manner; the District question got id of with a make-shift - this is not a ery satisfactory ending to the ses&ion when it is to be followed soon by an elecou of Eepresentatives. Is it 'r1 I learn lat some of our best men, like Dawes nd Willard are blue over the prospects JT the future. The Speaker, who is natrally hopeful, looks with misgivings to ie fall elections, but then the President, nd Carpenter, and Conkling, and Butler eem to be cheerful. They believe that ie people of the United States rather ike a public man who has an easy concience and leads a jolly life - that people nywhere prefer a Sheridan to a Wilber'orce. Perhaps so, but they may find out n the long run ' honesty is tho best of jolicy.' " In a discourse remarkable for its scope ná learuing befoie the Yale law school lumni last week, Judge Edwards Pierrejont gave his verdict in favor of large niversities over small colleges. A great niversity, he said, was the best place to ducate anybody who was to take part n public affairs, and this should be kindr told to tho noble men who were givng their substance to endow small collo;es all over the country. The infiuence of ongregated numbers was essential to the rull development of men. The magnetic orce was lost in seclusion and could onr come from tho congregation of numers. Contact not only of mind with mind but of mind with many niinds s essential to perfect growth. The American artist finds his genius flag in lis solitary homo. Ho goes to Florence r to Eome, where in the spirit of the ilucu, and among an artistic crowd, he las new inspirations and capabilities which by himself he could never attain. Association tends to culture'and advancement ; dispersión and isolation to bar)arism. Thero is a philosophical reason then br the establishment of a great iiniversi,y iikethat of Michigan. It is not meref that we may boast of its size, and of ;s reputation, but that thero may be 'ound the olements of culture which canot in the very nature of the case be :ound in small institutions- viz : the arge numbers of minds acting upon and ;imulating one another. No corps of minent professors, no equipment of ooks and apparatus can supply the place f this element ot education. Therefore lis State does wisely, and will do wisely, n sustaining the University and extendng its facilities for the education of all who may desire to