St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-14
THIRD IN The UNION.
That Is the Rank by Students
Of the University OF
Minnesota.
It's Great Growth Set Forth at
the Regents Annual
Meeting.
What Has Been Accomplished
at the State Expert
mental Farm.
Important Recommendations
for the Legislature to
Think Over.

At 10 O'Clock yesterday morning the
! board of regents of the state university
met at the capitol and held their annual
session, which was not adjourned till
| O'Clock, no recess being taken for din
ner. The annual reports of President
John S. Pillsbury, of the board, and of
Director Smith, of the experimental
farm, were exhaustive documents, and
discussion of the suggestions and sta
| tisticS set forth in them took up the en-
/ tice session. The reports, together
with that of the treasurer, will be print
! ed in book form at once and be in readl-
| ness for presentation to the legislature.
President PiIsbury's report traced the his
| tory of the university from its establishment
! on Feb. 49, 1881, down to the present. The
| preparatory departments were opened in Oc-
| tober, 1869, with thirty eight students. The
| enrolment at present is over 1,50O. The
university recently received an endowment
| of $4,000 acres of land for Its perpetual use,
| and the endowment was approved by acts OF
| congress. The permanent fund OF the insti-
| tuition is derived from the sale of this land
| and the lumber and mineral thereupon. The
| board stlll has 1850 acres remaining,
and 15.4l0 acres were sold TO pay
deots incurred for the erection of
| the university in 1857 and which
! could not be applied to the fund. The
| amount of the permanent fund at the close
| OF the fiscal year, July 81, 1892, with interest
| due, was 1895, 662.
| The receipts of the university from its diff
ferent resources during the year were $!l3, =
334. 73 For 1891 they were $!O0.054. IL. The
| amount of salaries paid out to professors in
1892 was Sll5, 45S 50, and to employees $40.
| I0l. %. Other expenses for fuel, lights, sup
! plies, etc, amounted TO $42,74S, 70. For 1891
| the salaries of professors amounted to S102,
| 16LS5, and employees Sl4,0096l.
| Some changes were made in the staff of
| teachers, but i'll each case an able and eff
| cient instructor has been brought to The uni
| Versity. On April 30 the chapel was de-
| stroyed by fire At the time large number
OF students were congaegated in the room,
which is on the third floor of the building,
and many of them barely escaped with their
| lives. The main building was also
damaged by the fire to the ex-
covered by insurance. MANY of the
volumes in the library were damaged and de-
stroved by water at the same time. The ex-
perlence OF the students in escaping from
the chapel showed the great danger Of hay
Ing such large assembly hall III that part of
the building, and the board decided to dis
continue the assembly room. Also. the dan
ger to the library of 81, 600 volumes was a seri-
Gus question. as fire might occur again at
any time. Therefore. after serious delibera-
t1on. the regents concluded that fire proof
building for an assembly hall and
library is an absolute necessity, and have
made plans and estimates for the same and
ask Tor an appropriation from the legislature
OF $4,000 to erect the same.
President FillSbury goes on to say in this
connection: The marvellous development of
Minnesota in the last decaoe has surpassed
expectations. No state has made more ma
terial progress. IL has nearly doubled in
population and wealth. 1t will develop as
greatly in The future as i'll the past, and lib
eral opportunities should be afforded
for education No wise appropriation needed
by the university should be denied the uni
versty for its further development and
growth.
The university is situated on wide campus
in the center of the city of Minneapolis, with
5000 square yards of street frontage. The
city has built sidewalks about it, out these
walks should be of asbestine stone to make
its surroundings i'll keeping with an institu-
ton of its kind. This would cost Sc Co., and
with other improvements, and including the
loss by fire, another appropriation OF Sl0,500
is needed.
The president alludes in eloquent terms of
the new honOred members of the board who
have passed away since the last annual meet
ing Gen. Sibey, who was it's president and
regent of the university for twenty years,
and Gen. Gordon 4. Cole, who was also an
active, able regent and friend of education.
After entering into many details of the
ments and giving complete resume OF the
management and the present board, Presi-
dent Plllsbury says in conclusion:
Under the etncient management of Presi.
dent Northrop and his corps of professors
and instructors unprecedented progress and
success has attended the university in all de-
partments OF work. It's matter of peculiar
pleasure TO note the large increase of stu
dents who come from all parts of the state.
We are assured that deep interest is being
to in no for Of ha inc I
EN- glad to say that it has been fully able to
meet all the wants of Students not only in
classical, scientific, literary, engineers and
mechanics arts and
agriculture departments but for depart
ments of medicine and law, so that today
the University Of Minnesota ranks third,
Cornell and Michigan alone having larger
attendance. When we consider that the pre-
paratory departments of this university were
opened in 1865 with less than forty students
and practically with no facilities to do edu-
cational work and find an enrolment of 1.5O0
today with ample facilities, we feel there is
good reason for the people of the state 10 be
proud Of the success it has attained.
Experimental Farm.
Director Clinton D. Smith, of the state az.
rcultural school and experimental farm
made his biennial report for the period from
December, 1890. to Nov. 80. 1892. A synopsis
of it is as follows: There are now 1000 600
acres of improved land under cultivation in
Minnesota and this vast area has presented q
great variety OF questions to be
solved by the experimental school.
There has been wonderful growth
of the state in the past two years. Indus
tries that were in their infancy then have
grown important. Previous to 1891 the de
mand for an experimental station was in tn
dairy industry not apparent Now the dairy
interest in the state is second in Importance
only to the wheat in the value of produce ex-
ported. The high price of dairy produce,
and the dense population in the southern
part of the state are the causes that have
made ii so. The creamery business was dis
covered to be profitable enterprise
and creameries have sprung up thick and
fast. The experimental station was erected
at a cost of $1,000. 1t is two story stone
structure, equipped with all needed appli-
anceS OF farming science. On the upper floor
are offices and on the first floor TWO large
| rooms 42X30, are given over to the manufact-
ure of butter and cheese. The best herd of
COWS obtainable of various breeds were pur-
chased and put upon the farm and the nat
the, animals carefully studied as
well as the produce OF milk
and butter obtained. The figures and
| comparisons have been of great value. All
! other branches of partial farming are repre-
| scented at the school, and since the last re-
port twenty-five different bulletins of in
| struction on all these branches have been
| sent out through the state in editions off. 600
eacn. let the demand has been greater than
the supply, which shows that great inter
est has been awakened in the state and that
| our farmers are daily educating themselves
in the various pursuits they are following.
The receipts of the school for the year
were 81, 737 50, and the expenses SlO96l SO.
Director Smiths report is also very complete,
| and will be a valuable edition when pub
| liShed in book farm
The regents present at the meeting yester-
day besides President Pillsbury were Messrs.
Clark, Nelson, Heatwole, Liggett, Mahoney,
Northrop and Kiehle.