Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-05-08
STATE UNIVERSITY.

fishes the report of tie Committee on Ed
ncation, School an.l University Lands,
which was made in the Assembly on
Wedn ,selar last. Hon. II. Robbins ofGrant
comfy. Chairman The committee ex-
operated the Board Of Regents from the
charge of extravaganza and mismanage-
ment, and makes many suggestions which,
are worthy of consideration. We give be-
low an extract, as showing what Is
recommended in reference to the jnstltu-
ton:
"Let it be made in reality what it is In
name let it contribute directly 10 the ed
vocational wants of the greatest number
let it take young men from the academies
and public schools, where they have OBJ
tanned the elements of intellectual disci-
pline and culture, and prepare them for
their pursuits in life, and the University
will be in harmony with other institutions,
and command The active support and sym
party Of the people.
The University should consist of a series
Of departments or schools, as for instance,
the normal, agricultural, mining, engineer,
&C., developed in the order Of their indus
trial Importance.
They further give il as their opinion,
that it woull better subserve the public
interests to organize departments for agri-
culture and a Normal school in the Uni
vcrsitv, than to make distinct appropria-
tons for such purpose, as the Assembly
has been urged to do.
Clark, in the Senate, has made another
report, on the subject, from the select com
mittee appointed to inquire into the con-
dition Of the State University. The re
port recommends the suspension Of the
work on the main edi6ce the removal Of
the present Board of Regents; the repeal o.
the organic law of the University, and the
election of new Board Of Regents OF
which not more than two members shall
! reside in any county OF the state.
Year after year, this Institution has re-
ported large expenditures of money-very
large, and as often reporting but little &C
compliahed for education. Seven Profes-
sors at high salaries and one Tutor at a
low salary, the latter having the main
charge and doing the most work, upon
the principal that Institutions founded up
on the public revenue generally get their
tails up when work Is to be done, ninety
students two thirds of them belongin Q
to Madison, andsannual calls for money,
are the sum and substance of the yearly
reports of this great mammoth concern.
In tic meanwhile, every college in the
State supported by voluntary aid, is rival
ing this great University in number Of
students and educational merits, enterprise
and popular favor. With due regards for
the Committee and special confidence in
Mr.. ROBBINS, whom we hold above inten-
tional wrong as a public man, we ask,
what has the University done though one
of the oldest in the State and richest q
Even PlatteYille Academy, nominal y
poor, stands higher among the people, &C
composites more at tenth of the expense,
than this monster University. Where is
the man who would think of taking his
son from Plattevile and sending him 10
this magnifcently endowed State Univer-
sitv, with seven Professors? True, the
Committee recommend change, with in
crease of departments-one to instruct In
agriculture, but such changes and additions
can only provide new expenses, without,
as we think, plishing any more than
before.
The true policy is to abandon the whole
concern as failure, and distribute the
University fund, what is left, to the living
institutions through the State. Platte
vile will want a few thousand, so will Be-
lott, Racine, and other higher Institutions
of learning. This will be eminently con
yenient, democratic and great gain to
a greater number.
ERROR CoRRRcrEp.--Severa typo
graphical errors appeared in the article
Published in our paper last week, signed
Hazel Green and addressed to the
Teachers of Grant County. recommending
a County Contention Of Teachers. The
meaning of the writer, who is a gentle
man highly qualified, was, in several re-
spects thereby obscured or changed int
points without substance. The fault was
not in the manuscript but in the printer.
Speaking of the proposed Association of
Teachers, we hope tho Profession will take
the subject into consideration, and if APP
proved, leta time and place be agreed up
on. This can lie best done by the lead