A University Club in the West.

Interest in the success of universities and university life in the West is growing. The formation of a university club at Butte, Iowa, will be regarded as another step by which the Eastern and Western civilization may be united more closely. We quote the following from the Butte Daily News May 16, '87:

"A meeting was held in this city yesterday afternoon to organize a university club. There were present graduates of Harvard, Yale, Balliol College, Oxford, the College of the City of New York, the New York University, the Institute of Technology, the University of California, Washington University, Ottawa College, Monmouth College and McKendree College. The project originated only a few days ago in a casual suggestion of one of the gentlemen present yesterday afternoon, and the result is a pleasant revelation to themselves and must be a source of pride to Butte. There is every prospect of the club attaining a membership of forty or fifty as soon as it gets to work and then there will belong to it graduates of nearly all the centres of learning in this country and several from European colleges. The immense benefit to be derived by the members themselves from so many representatives of different schools of thought being brought together can easily be imagined, but the good resulting will not be confined to them. It will be felt in this community by the breadth of idea it will inevitably introduce here. The active interchange of thought which is the outcome of a properly directed club effort is certain to produce a higher intellectual standard among the members, and this cannot fail of a reflex action on the community in which they move and associate. In union is strength is true of intellectual effort as well as political or any other co-operation. The gentlemen who met yesterday afternoon are highly encouraged by the prospect before them, and feel certain that no step that has ever been taken by Butte will be of more benefit to the city than this. To have it known in the East that there is a university club of nearly half a hundred members from colleges all over Christendom will be a revelation to thousands, and make the city known and news from here eagerly sought in centres of thought, which will now for the first time hear of this city of infinite material resources. The auri sacra fames that has hitherto consumed all energies here will in future be tempered by an intellectual growth which, while by no means lessening the activity and enterprise that have developed Butte's mineral resources, will introduce a new element of culture here that it is hoped will grow with that vigor which has characterized similar efforts elsewhere.

The officers elected yesterday are: President, W. H. Baldwin, Jr., Harvard, '85; Vice-President, A. C. Newill, Oxford, Eng.; Secretary, E. McAndrew, College City of New York; Treasurer, J. Lansing, New York University; Executive Committee, B. B. Thayer, Harvard, '85; C. W. Goodale, Institute of Technology, Boston; F. O. Linforth University of California."