The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-04
THE HIGH SCHOOL QUESTION.
Principal Twitmyer Speaks OF tho Ur-
gent Need OF the school.

On Saturday a special city election VIII b
held to determine whether or not the city shall
be bonded to the amount of SIS 900 for the pur.
pose OF erecting high school. There Is consid-
erabe opposition TO the proposed bonding. IL
comes from q number OF citizens who hold tina,
there il no need for both a high school and q
university In seattle. and that the latter should
survive. Prof Edwin Twitmyer principal OF
the high school, in speaking of the matter yes
terday, said:
While there was perhaps no direct attempt at
comparing the cost OF educating students at tho
high school tuow the senior grammar sehooll
with that OF ed ucatng them at tne university
fu an article that appeared liz the Telegraph re-
Gently. the mere statement of the fact that the
tuition formerly charged al the university was
but ga year would lead some people to believe
that that covered the entire cost of the yearly
education OF each student attend ng that instl-
tuition. To ssy that IT cost but ST at the uni
yersity and 500 at the high school would be
placing the latter IN q fa.se light, and II any
such error exists IN the minds OF the people Ii
should re corrected. When the ga was still
char ged the tuition paid by the university stu
denis covered bat a fractional par, o! tie ssl d.
res paid the mem bers of the faculty.
iue last annual catalogue OF the university
shows an enrol ment 81 10 students, exclusive
Of those in the departments OF music aad art
In these latter departments the students II
an properly informed. pay by the lesson for
their instruction, !. vas only these Is STU
dents that were charged an annual tuition.
The aggregate OF the salaries .pGid the mem
oets Of the faculty amounts 10 sll,61o per
num- This DIVIDED ~ 10 Inskes the cost per
capita at :tle university ia salaries alone some
what over 81. IL Is Vain 10 De seen, therefore
taas the 81 tuition pail by each student BY no
Means def.ayed tAc entifs expense OF his edu-
cation. Ihe balance was paid bT tie state
Divide slI,sJ0, total of salaries paid in the
high school, by 265, enr0limcn of students Tor
the year. the cost per student paid in salaries 10
teachers amounts 10 :43 Nor should Judge
the Running expense 81 the high school 10 he
quite as great as taose OF The university. so It
y III De seen that the cost Of maintai ning high
school j. very little more. II any more, than halt
that OF The university, the number oi students
considered.
Bg THIS comparison do not wish 70 be under.
stood as attempting 10 Go anything trat would
In toe least Interfere with the success and pros-
psfity If tie university. Far from IL No in
teltleeut citizen would use this difference IN
cost ETgGmeut against the support and en-
courageulsat OF that Institution. The EXPENSE
OF educating IS always greater as you ascend the
scale. This is even true when comparing tie
cost Of educating primary ana grammar school
pupils
There is the nes, Of feeling existing between
the university faculty and the teachers OF the
h "a seho0i, and there i no reason Why i,
shoG.d be otAer"ise- here Is no cor d CT OF in
iefesis Ours is secondary school and taelrs
a college. Ihe htEh scaooi shoald serve ss q
feeder 70 the university.
True. the university still maintains Q prepara.
tory class, II v a4ch high school WORK ts done
bat tails Is 10 &c abandoned as soon as the mum :.
oers II tie College department. justify saea q
nova
SAGE tuition at ;he university i. now free. +,
hss beca staieal tlat tbs nigh school HorA .alg
be done by the university, bat TO do that tie
preparatory &c psrtmeui would have 10 be Der.
laa1e0t aud iis course. 70 meet AL demands
much more varied than st present, and ths: In
stlfUlion b dong much work not falling within
IL lsg .tiT1ate province. IL would also re ur-
lair. superintendent Barnard has stated. 20
saA sss STATE ~ do oar common seaeo. WORK