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The University is steadily growing in usefulness and popularity. The State should cherish and encourage it in every possible way.-Governor John A. Martin's Message.
A more devoted servant to the agricultural interests of the State than is Prof. Snow does not labor in her interests.
The State legislature should do itself proud by voting the appropriation asked for Prof. Snow's building without dissent. The State must care for her benefactors.
The men composing the board of regents of the State University are as able and influential men as the State affords. They would not ask anything unreasonable of the State.
The State of Kansas has given her State University for building purposes in sum total, $77,000. The State of Missouri at the session of her last legislature, in one appropriation gave $100,000.
The Topeka Journal says in speak-of the $50,000 asked for Prof. Snow's natural history building, and of the value of the professor's investigations to the agriculturalists of the State: This small amount could not be better invested.
Prof. Snow's recent lecture in Topeka before the State Board of Agriculture, on the "Hessian Fly," which is doing such damage to the wheat crop over the country, is receiving the highest compliments of the press all over the country.
The board of regents in asking for $50,000 for a natural history building for Professor Snow's department, is asking for a something which has become a necessity to a man whose efforts in behalf of the farmers of the State is of the greatest value.
The legislature will necessarily be compelled to cut many appropriations asked for this winter, but we think if proper investigation is given the work Prof. Snow in his department is doing for the agricultural interests of the State, the small appropriation asked will be given without dissent. The building asked is now a necessity.
The average number of students $ \cong $ classes at the K. S. U. is larger than nine-tenths of of the colleges in the
United States. The professors and instrdtors receive less remuneration aor the amount of work done than in any other institution of similar grade and equal standing. What K. S. U. needs at present is more instructors and more room.
A military instructor. What is the reason that K. S. U. has not been provided with one? All over the land there are institutions whose numbers and facilities do not equal ours, yet they have a means of getting that most necessary part of a good education, "physical culture." Congress has already provided for it. It seems that about all there is to do to secure this long felt necessity is to interest the proper authorities in this matter, and with little doubt we will soon have that which will be a source of much benefit, and at little or no expense to the State. Yes, give us a military instructor by all means.
The board of regents at their meeting last Tuesday very generously appropriated $50 to the Courier for advertising purposes for the remainder of the year. Under the circumstances attending this action, however, the Courier does not feel justified in accepting such in the nature of an "appropriation"—cannot and will not. If the authorities desire to do any advertising in the Courier beyond what we see fit in our loyalty to our school to give, they will be given our regular advertising rates on a strict business basis. We are pained to be compelled to take this step, but actions of which we do not care to speak, yet deeply resent, has urged us to this conclusion.
Kansans are inclined to "poke fun" at Missouri as a "moss back bourbon State." But how would an appropriation bill for our University strike the legislature which would rank equal to the amount asked for the Missouri State University. This is the estimate which will be placed before the legislature of Missouri:
Current expenses . . . $55,000
Farm repairs and improvements . . . 49,000
Chemical laboratory . . . 30,000
To furnish three additional halls . . . 5,000
Heating scientific building . . . 1,800
Reconstruction and improvement of all buildings and grounds . . . 62,000
Armory and gymnasium improvement of grounds . . . 50,000
Fencing of grounds . . . 7,000
Electric lighting . . . 6,000
Museum collections . . . 185,000
Statues of Washington and Jefferson . . . 6,000
Total . . . $480,000
Total
The State University. From the Topeka Journal of the 24th;
The "Fourth Biennial Report of the Regents, Faculty and Chancellor of the State University" is on our table. The University seems to be in a most prosperous condition. It is evidently an institution of which the State can well feel proud. The attendance now reaches nearly 500. The separate departments are doing their work well. Being the crowding point as it were in the higher education of the grandest public school system of any State in the union, it should be well fostered. By statistics on hand we see that the State has given for building purposes but $77,000 to this, whereas the city of Lawrence has
given $180,000; thus for this amount the State has property to the amount of $257,000 and an institution of higher education comparing well with the oldest and best colleges in the country. In the future Kansas can afford to be more liberal with her educational institutions. Though the salaries of the faculty are smaller than those of any other institution in the country,the regents ask no advancement.
What is asked this winter beyond the general appropriations is for the benefit of Prof. Snow's department of natural history, a man who is thorough in his researches, giving instruction as to the destruction, etc., of pests in agricultural interests, making himself a most generous benefactor to the farming interests of the State. He is a thoroughly practical man. His collections, worth upwards of $100,000, are surpassed by Harvard only in the country. His daily mails bring him scores of letters of inquiry from farmers of the State on pests in fruit, cereals, etc., samples enclosed, asking means of destruction, prevention, etc. What he asks now is a building for proper storage for these immense collections which have been collected by himself at comparatively no cost to the State. They are liable to destruction by fire at any time. Room is needed for proper laboratory investigation. The small amount asked could not be better invested by the State. Let a committee from the legislature visit this our highest school of learning, investigate its wants and see they are unstintedly filled.
We take the following from the Topeka Commonwealth of Wednesday;
We have read with great interest the "Fourth Biennial Report of the Regents, Chancellor and Faculty" of this institution. Although the appropriations in its earlier years were very meagre, it has made and is making wonderful progress. The University of Kansas has attained a position where it ranks among the highest institutions of learning in the country; comparing most favorably with the Universities of Michigan, California, Minnesota, Missouri and Iowa, although the lowest in endowment and in the salaries paid to its professors. Under the present chancellor it has made a steady, healthy growth in all that goes to make it a leading institution of the country.
The regents speak in complimentary terms of "the' generous appropriations"' of the last legislature, making possible "a notable increase in the facilities of instructions." The new chemistry building has been completed and equipped, and has exemplified the wisdom of the legislature in that appropriation. The members of the last legislature will remember with what persistency the appropriation was opposed. Its benefits already are inestimable. And yet who has felt any burthen from that donation? A fire proof library hall and an observatory are still lacking.
The last legislature defeated a bill for the latter object, which seemed to those who took the most interest in education, to be one of the imperative wants of the institution. Kansas has been most liberal in its donations to the cause of common schools, alike in its State management and in
the municipalities organized to carry on the common school system. But it has sometimes seemed to us too stringently economical in its appropriations to the higher branches. The contributions have been frequently wrung from unwilling representatives rather than generously bestowed. Representatives as well as people may we not rather say representatives because of the people?—lose sight of the fact that our State taxes are low, because the aggregate of county and municipal taxes have been exorbitant. The increase of tax to erect educational institutions bears no comparison in amount to the advantage to be derived from them.
The recommendations of the regents for increased salaries, now that Kansas is prosperous, ought to commend itself to the justice—we do not say generosity, but justice—of the law makers. Our State pays less than almost any other State in the union, Missouri included, for teachers. The reputation of Kansas as a progressive State, with enlightened public men, has thus far secured to our institutions men of learning and hardness of intellectual capacity much above the remuneration paid for similar services in older States. The pride of participating in laying deep the foundations of literature and statesmanship in a commonwealth whose past was so illustrated by deeds of patriotism, and the hopes of the future, have made great minds anxious to be identified with our history, and willing to contribute to the future glory of Kansas. They ought not to be asked to do it longer; or at least, there ought to be such an advance towards the minimum of educational salaries as to demonstrate that an advance was to be made somewhat coequal with the advancement of the institution. In this connection the increase of the library demands proper consideration.
As we understand the question, the most important—the most essential and indispensible—appropriation demanded by the wants of the institutions is a building for the department of natural history. This department has been built from its foundation by Prof. Snow, and he has labored with all the ability of a scholar as well as the ardor of an enthusiast to elevate it, until it has become the admiration of all the students of natural history, both at home and abroad, who have visited the institution.
Prof. Snow has made his collections with the most meagre means. With a few hundred dollars to pay mere expenses, he has sent forth his students in vacation, inspired with the spirit and ambition of the master head, he frequently accompanying them, and they have been seen on the prairies, in the desert, wherever a fossil could be picked up, a bird or a bug found, or sealing the crags of the mountains, until he has deposited in that building collections which could be put in the market and command more than $100,000. If he had invested the trifle spent by the State as a private individual in a business transaction, he would have been worth more than his salary for fifty years. And yet these valuable collections as time advances—may we not say invaluable?—occupy seven of the best rooms of the University, liable to be destroyed by fire at any moment, as
were recently similar valuables in the Missouri University.
The recommendations in regard to dropping the minor preparatory studies and devoting the institution to proper University work will attract attention as a necessary advance which the State is being prepared for by the advance of Normal. Academic and other institutions.
We wandered over the moutlit rocks, I and Penelope Jewett. We both were engaged to somebody else, Both knew that the other one knew it.
The glorious moon and the sky and the sea—How could I help but do it?
I went right to work making desperate love, But then, I knew that she knew it.
Considering how we were placed there together, It wouldn't be very wrong, would it?
If I told her, perhaps, rather than I meant, Remember, we both understood it.
We parted professing undying devotion. And—both knew the other would do It—Went back to our old loves, forgot quite each ostrich. And both knew the other one knew it.—Record
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