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law regulating rail way traffic.

Upon these and kindred topics the popular mind needs to be instructed more, it would seem, than upon any other subjects. And upon these topics, our colleges and universities are doing virtually nothing to supply the needed instruction.

A few years ago I had a correspondence with my friend President Andrew D. White of Cornell University, urging upon him to make Politics a most prominent subject of instruction at Cornell. President White agreed with all my views; but gave as reasons for not adopting them, a lack of funds, and the necessity of providing first for instruction in all kind of natural science. The result is that nothing of any importance has been done at Cornell University with reference to the matter, although Pres. White has since become a zealous public advocate of education in Politics. I afterwards had a similar correspondence with the President of the Johns Hokpins University at Baltimore. He fully agreed with me in theory, but urged the same difficulties.

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