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Regent's Report.
From the Topeka Capital of Sunday we extract the following from the report of the Board of Regents of K. S. U., to his Excellency, the Governor:
For detailed and specific information touching the various departments, we respectfully refer you to the reports of the professors herewith presented. The clerk's report makes an accurate exhibit of all monies expended under the authority of the board. These accounts have been carefully audited and found correct. The chancellor's report, also herein with laid before you, presents a general survey of the work accomplished during the biennium, together with a statement of the present condition and needs of the University.
In the work of instruction the following departments have been organized ;
1. Mental and Moral Science.
2. Natural History.
3. Latin Language and Literature.
5. History and Political Science.
6. Greek Language and Literature
7. Law
7. Law.
8. Normal Department.
9. English Literature, Logic, Rhetoric and Belles-lettres.
10. German and French.
11. Civil Engineering.
12. Chemistry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy.
13. Physics and Astronomy.
Each of these departments has been committed to the care of a professor, who is made responsible under the Board of Regents, for the work assigned him. Assistant professors have also been appointed, and their work distributed as follows:
1. Natural History, one assistant in the laboratory and class room,and one in the field.
2. Latin Language, half the time of an assistant, whose help is divided with the department of Greek.
3. Mathematics, half the time of an assistant.
4. Law, one assistant.
5. Greek, half the time of an assistant.
6. English Literature, an assistant, who also gives instruction in cloention.
7. German and French, one assistant.
or an assistant.
8. Civil Engineering, half the time of an assistant.
We cannot better sum up the above comparison than by quoting substantially from the article which furnishes the above statistics :
"Of all the institutions compared, the University of Kansas, though occupying very high rank in the character of results secured, has the smallest endowment, the smallest receipts from endowment and the smallest receipts from the State; has received no gifts, as compared with $300,000 to Michigan, half that to California, $30,000 to Missouri, and $15,000 to Wisconsin—all in a single year; stands sixth and lowest in the list of receipts from students, though only fifth in the number in attendance—showing great generosity on the part of the management of the institution; as to gross receipts, stands next to the lowest; pays the lowest total amount for instruction; pays next to the lowest salary for president or chancellor, and the lowest salaries to the faculty and assistant; yet demands the greatest number of hours service, and compels them to instruct the largest number of students—more than twice as many as the general average; expends the smallest amount on its library, that most necessary of all the apparatus of instruction—and therefore, naturally has the smallest library; is next to the lowest in the charges placed on each student; and expends the least for the instruction of each student—cheapness of which he may not boast.
Still more briefly; in seventeen points of comparison, touching matters essential to good work, and showing generous patronage and support,
Kansas stands in nearly every respect at the foot of the list! Was there ever a better year than this, in which to make radical reform?
The urgent need of a hall, devoted to natural history, has forced itself upon our attention. For a statement of the facts in the case, we beg leave to refer you to the chancellor's report, and to the following communication from the faculty, bearing upon the same subject:
To the Board of Regents, Kansas State University.
We, the faculty of the University of Kansas, would respectfully suggest to the Board that it is almost imperative that the coming legislature provide means for the erection of a special building for the department of natural history. The growth of that department has been remarkable, and it has reached the point where it can rightly demand substantial recognition. No one long resident in Kansas need be reminded of the many ways in which it has practically and helpfully touched the daily lives of by far the largest class of our citizens. None can forget that all it has accomplished has come from the earnest and self-sacrificing labors of the man who still guides and quickens its growth.
His collections are usually complete and valuable. In Entomology it is said to have but one superior—Harvard College. In all branches of its work it is pressing well to the front. But its collections are limited in their usefulness by reason of their necessarily imperfect display; are not convenient for reference; and large portions of them ore stored in accessible places, liable to deterioration and decay. What is needed, and needed at once, is ample room, which cannot be secured in the present building. Although encroaching so very seriously on space demanded by other departments as to cause great embarrassment, and to impair their efficiency, its own wants are not relieved.
We cannot believe that under a proper presentation the legislature will refuse to make the appropriation necessary for a large and permanent building for this department. If in providing for the future there should be any space at present not occupied, it could be readily and effectually used for the library, which needs a very radical change in location and adaptation to the wants of both general and special students.
(Signed)
D. H. ROBINSON, See'y.
For reasons herein set forth, the Board of Regents, without a dissenting voice, resolved at its September meeting, to memorialize the legislature for an appropriation of $50,000 for the purpose of erecting on the University grounds a building for the department of natural history. This item will therefore be found in the table of estimates herein presented.
To one more point we beg leave to ask your attention—the need of a chancellor's residence on or near the University grounds. The convenience of strangers and others who are led by business relations to visit the University, makes necessary the chancellor's presence at all hours of the day and of the evening. The proper management of the general business interests of the institution similarly demand his presence. This demand is heightened by a consideration of the value of the property and the need of every precaution in its protection. The buildings, if destroyed by fire, might be restored; but the various cabinets and appliances of instruction are the accumulation of years, and many of them, if destroyed or lost, could not be replaced. The necessity of the residence of the chancellors on the grounds is generally recognized among colleges. Such provision is made in two of the State Universities elsewhere referred to in this report, and also in our own Agricultural College. Such a residence should, at an early day, as we think, be provided for the State University.
We respectfully present in the following scheme, a table of estimates
These estimates have been made up with the main pains-taking deliberation. The actual needs of the institution have been kept constantly in mind, but at the same time the utmost care has been exercised in the direction of a rigid economy:
for the years ending June 30,1886 and June 30,1887.
ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30,1886.
Salary of Chancellor ... $3,000
Prof. Natural History ... 2,000
Salaries of nine Professors ... 16,000
Salaries of five Assistants ... 5,000
Dean of Normal Department ... 1,650
Dean of Law Department ... 1,200
Clerk and Book keeper ... 5
Superintendent, Engineer and Janitor ...
Assistant Librarian ...
Fuel, Lights and Fireman ...
Collection of Instruments ...
Chemicals and Apparatus ...
Additions to Cabinet ...
Advertising ...
Printing Meteorological Reports ...
Improving Grounds ...
Addition to Library ...
Cabinet Case ...
Maps, Charts and Illustrative Apparatus ...
Apparatus, Department of Physics ...
paratus . . . . .
The estimates for the year ending June 30, 1887, are the same as the above, with the exception of the two last items.
In closing our reports we would respectfully add, that residents, as we are in different sections of the State, it is our common experience that there exists among the people a deep and pervading interest in the growth and success of the University.
As the State matures the demand for higher education naturally increases. The young men born upon Kansas soil look within its borders for educational advantages, and for all the means and facilities for a thorough intellectual development.
The alumni, scattered as they are through the State and the west, evince invariably an earnest and sincere regard for their Alma'Mater.
We cannot speak too highly of the present faculty of the University. They are earnest men, in the prime of life, devoting their best energies to its growth and developments. Their compensation might very properly be increased, but with so many other expenditures necessarily embraced in our report, we have not felt at liberty to press this question.
In the performance of our official duties, we have endeavored to obtain a clear and thorough insight into both the wants and the prospects of the institution, and we but express a conviction common to us all when we say that if it shall receive at this time proper support and aid, it can be made specially to take its place by the side of the oldest and best institution of learning in the country, and become at once a most important factor in the growth and intellectual development of the youth of the State.
Very respectfully,
D.F.BIGELOW
J. A. LUPPINCOTT, Chancellor.
A. G. OTIS,
FRANK A. FITZPATRICK
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W. S. WHITE,
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