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everything was going in a properly satisfactory fashion, but Marty had caught one word that he wanted Joe to enlarge upon. "Why do you say 'Methodist college'? It is a Methodist college; but is there anything the matter with that?" Joe rose to the mild challenge. "Don't think I mean to be nasty," he said, "but I can't help comparing this place with the State University, and I wonder if there's any big reason for such colleges as this. You know they all have a hard time, and the State spends dollars to the church's dimes." "Yes, we know that, don't we, J.W.?" and Marty appealed to his chum, remembering the frequent and half-curious talks they had on that very contrast. J.W. said "Sure," but plainly meant to leave the defense of the Christian college to Marty, who, to tell the truth, was quite willing. "There's room for both, and need for both," said that earnest young man. "Each has its work to do--the State University will probably help in attracting most of those who want special technical equipment, and the church colleges will keep on serving those who want an education for its own sake, whatever special line they may take up afterward: though each will say it welcomes both sorts of students." This suited Joe; he intended Marty to keep it up a while. So he said, "But why is a church college, anyway?" And he got his answer, for Marty too was eager for the fray. "The church college," he retorted with the merest hint of asperity, "is at the bottom of all that people call higher education. The church was founding colleges and supporting them before the State thought even of primary schools. Look at Oxford and Cambridge--church colleges. Look at Harvard and Yale and Princeton and the smaller New England colleges--church colleges. Look at Syracuse and Wesleyan and Northwestern and Chicago. Look at Vanderbilt, and most of the other great schools of the South. They are church colleges, founded, most of them, before the first State University, and many before there was any public high school. The church college showed the way. If it had never done anything else, it has some rights as the pioneer of higher learning." J.W. had been getting more interested. He had never heard Marty in quite this strain, and he was proud of him. "That's a pretty good answer he's given you, Joe," he said with a chuckle. "Now, isn't it?" "It is," admitted Joe. "I reckon I knew most of what you say, Marty, but I hadn't thoug
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