The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 6, 1895.
No.2.
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IN SPITE of the insults offered him in the report, Secretary Moody of the University may be justly gratified with the results of the recent investigation of his accounts by the state accountant. He has not only been exonerated from all charges of mismanagement, but he is complimented, in the accountant's report, upon the business like way in which the books and accounts of the office are kept and upon his fidelity to the interests of the institution in purchasing supplies. And the University is to be congratulated upon the established trustworthiness and efficiency of one of her officers.
But very unfortunately, the state accountant Mr. Challinor, has a very enlarged conception of the duties of his office and of his own importance to the state, and he has gone far out of his own way, in his report, to make an unseeming and entirely unwarranted attack upon the faculty and board of regents and particularly upon Chancellor Snow.
Mr. Challinor is said to be a good bookkeeper; and it is a great pity that his value to the world should have been depreciated by placing him in an office whose duties he can sopoorly comprehend. It seems that he must never have read the act creating his office, or else that he willfully disregarded provisions, for in very clear terms it limits him to the examination of accounts and the methods of keeping them.
To give an appearance of substantiality to his airy assertions, Mr. Challinor presents some "facts and figures" which only emphasize his ignorance of everything save the ten tittle symbols of his own neglected calling, and which expose the utter unfairness of his position. Let him compare the University with other state universities and institutions of like grade—the only fair comparison—and he will find that none of them do any more for the money expended or produce better results than Kansas University. He chooses to sneer at the regents and chancellor for "competing against Harvard and Yale," but he has not taken the trouble to learn that those institutions expend four or five times as much money for each student as does our own University. He considers an average salary of less than fifteen hundred dollars a year for each member of the faculty "too high" to pay to men who have devoted the best years of their lives, at constant expense, to a preparation for the profession which pays least in money, men whose abilities, directed to commercial or other professional pursuits, would long ago brought fortune and ease, men whose duty is a most sacred one—the training of the rising generation—for such men fifteen hundred dollars is "too high," but two thousand dollars a year is none too much for the man who adds figures—at least not when he also finds it necessary to superintend the whole machinery of the state.