The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-12

~coucerning hip and the school.
First, IL must b remembered, thai
the State University 10 neither = board.
Ing o . reform school; nor is il q
nursery whore infants are supposed to
b cared fer. =
Again, 1t must be remembered, that
It 10 No small concern. Its faculty en-.
braces absut seventy professors, and
ito roster contains the names Of about
six hundred students. By virtue Of its
being . state institution, 1t must Of
necessity b. . broad gagged one. The
duties Of tho president, therefore, are
many, and 1t 10 not amazing that the
administration, whatever might be its
merits, gives efiense to some n
II 10 now charged that the authorities
OF the. uniyersity exert no moral infu.
snes over the students; that a. many
~ two hundred Ut . time assemble at
the billiard saloon to waste their money
IN ris,ens living; that President Jesse
b matt for his position; that money
appropriated TO the institution has
been reoklsssly and sxtravagantly OK
pended.
Now, We make the statement and We
know whereof We speak, that the moral
influence sxsrted by. the president and
the faculty 10 good and wholesome,
and the charge to the contrary Is false,
willfal and Intentional and comes,
aisne, from . man who has permitted
the expulsion Of . son to prejudice him
to such extent that he stands before the
Of the state ~ guilty 81. having
given uttsrancs 70 . premeditated
There IL not . billiard
saloon IN . hundred miles Of Columbia
large ensugh ~ hold two hundred
studsats, Or halt that number, at one
time. We believe Il safe 70 assert that
there ars not one hundred students in
the u~nivsrsity who understand the first
principle sf billiards. We know It to
b . fact that during our residence at
Columbia that the morals Of the student
corps were the pride Of the onr.tors,
the faculty, and every one who came
10 contact with the students.
Az regards the charge Of in~sffioiency
against President Jesse, We need only
refer 70 the magnificent growth aud
advancement Of the school during his
regime. which 10 Of itself convincing
evidence that the right man 10 In the
right place..
II the money Of the institution has
bees recklsssly and sxtravagantly
spent, that charge does net relate to
either Prssidsnt Jesse Or the faculty. A
board Of euraters, consisting Of one
member fren each eongrsssional dis
lrict. appointed BY the governor, has
Of oil moneys appropriated and
expended. President Jesse aud the
have naught to Dc with ex-
pending any Of the states money
beyond their own salaries.
The university has just now begun to
from the vicissitudss and trials
snd d~issonsions Of former years. It Is,
now, fast gaining . stronghold upon
the people Of the state and an honored
place among the grsst, colleges Of the
1t 10, indeed, unfortunate that q
class Of newspaper men, as we'll
- = certain class Of Missouri citizens,
who possibly, without ~prevocation or
Investigation, are giving credence to
iostered In prejudice and
vented 10. spleen.
Every patriotic MissOurian should
rally I Q the defense Of the university. 1t is
. great, grand and magnificent institu-
ton, yet capable Of greater things; I,
10 vol managed BY men who believe in
"The brotherhood Of man. and the
latherhood Of God"
The legislators will be untrue to the
Of this state and derelict to q
duty they owe their God and country,
should they tall TO provide literally
and generously ior the needs Of the
university, the great browning head of
our great public school system.