Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . BACK TO OLD O. U. —CLASS OF Row—John L. McMaster, William S. Eversole, and Archelaus A. Row—Augustin Boice and John W. Dowd These Attended the Commencement Exercisesof Ohio University, held in June, 1909. Oxford. That condition, and the suspicionof undue activity in the matter of partisanpolitics in the governing bodies of these in-stitutions, undoubtedly had something to dowith, their failure to receive earlier financialsupport from the State. There is no excuse for making any educa-tional institution supported by the tax-pa


Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . BACK TO OLD O. U. —CLASS OF Row—John L. McMaster, William S. Eversole, and Archelaus A. Row—Augustin Boice and John W. Dowd These Attended the Commencement Exercisesof Ohio University, held in June, 1909. Oxford. That condition, and the suspicionof undue activity in the matter of partisanpolitics in the governing bodies of these in-stitutions, undoubtedly had something to dowith, their failure to receive earlier financialsupport from the State. There is no excuse for making any educa-tional institution supported by the tax-payersa denominational school, and it will alwayspartake of that character, whatever its pub-lished announcements may say, as long asany arm of the Church—using the term ina wide sense—directs its activities. Some OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 113. Y. W. C. A. Cabinet casting off from the old1 anchorage has takenplace but without any violation of the intentand spirit of the ordinance or compact underwhich the State was organized. # Wise as has been the direction of affairsin recent years, there is yet, perhaps, need ofa little further divorcing of Church and Statein the management of the educational insti-tutions named. If there is to be Churchcontrol the unanswerable question comes up,Control by what branch of the Church? Therecan be no affirmative reply to this off should be the emphatic dictumof the State to any religious body or sectseeking to control any of its institutions. I have said these things in no controversialor condemnatory spirit but simply becausethey explain some of the conditions that hin-dered institutional recognition and support bythe State within the period under considera-tion, and before and some time after thatperiod. Were the five years of Dr. Stantons admin-istration years of success or


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