Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-19
REPORT OF UNIVERSITY REGENTS.
Institution Has Progressed with
EcOnOmN-Ennha Ncedcd.


| LINCOLN, Jan. 1S.-(Specal)-Tn the
thirteenth biennial report to the governor
the Board OF Regents Of the University OF
Nebraska shows the continued prosperity OF
the university during the financial depres-
sion of the last two years. The attendance
Z has not decrelsed the students are with
few exceptions, not below collegiate grade,
/ and the regents maintain that the people OF
! the commonwealth have every reason to Lc
! proud OF the position which the university
/ now occupies among the educational institu-
Z tions OF the country" The percentage of
/ undergraduates completing their courses and
/ taking degrees is rising. The attendance
mas been about 1000 for each OF the two
! years The total number OF graduates in
June, 1895, was 1876; in June 1896, 1876. In
1895 hfty-four b. A. degrees were con-
/ ferred; twelve h. Sc; nineteen NJ A.. forty
one LL.B.i in 1895, forty.sx 3. A.; twenty
seven b.. Sc; eighteen NJ A.; forty-three
LIB, and one Ph.D. The last degree was
! for the first time conferred in course by the
| university.
There is an increase of two in the number
of Nebraska counties represented among the
students. The attendance from Douglas
| county has increased 43 per cent. The num-
| Der Of farmers children has increased from
267 to 63l in the biennum.
| On account OF an appropriation from the
! last legislature, which was less by $19 500
| than was asked, for current expenses fol-
| lowed by further reduction In the income
| que to the partial crop failure, the board
has been compelled to economize in ex-
! penses. BY denying reasonable demands of
departments for growth and in other ways
the board has avoided a deficit a fact in
! which pardonable pride is taken in the
report. IL is shown that the University of
Nebraska Is conducted with great economy
when compared with similar institutions in
pther states Nebraska is fourth among
twenty-one states from which statistics were
received in the number OF students attend
ing, but sixth in size of instructional force
Further retrenchment would mean impair
ment.
The report estimates an apparent shrink
age OF about $35 900 in the revenue due to
W shrinkage in the grand assessment roll
Oh the state which involves a loss of $12 $50
TO the temporary university fund in two
years; t2) falling off in the income from
lands leased and sold OF about $4,000 in
the two years. The regents point out that
III Is necessary to augment the temporary
university fund either by an increase in
s sne rate OF tax levy or by appropriations
from time to time from the general fund
OF the state, and urge the latter policy as the
simplest
Following are the estimates of the re-
sources from the state for the two years
1897 and 1898:
Three-eighths-miu tax on ostin,o+od
grand assessment roll CS17O 900, COD St275Ol
interest on investment permanent
Interest on land leases and sales, i'''''
1881 '''..'..'.................. 65O
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .$2lo 500
Necessary expenses are estimated as fol-
lows:
Payable from the regents fund oem-
porary university fund:
For salaries and wages of chancel-
lor, professors instructors assist
ants, officers and all employees
F1T dS97s9S ss;o 10: 5 9s5oo
lor, professors instructors assist
"A aT1lfAl lars.a
~ 1850 9S5co
Posage and statidaery iIHaSyS and dPThIlnB pmmB,
nm ing amd pipe work lS979S,, G,75c
f0r current ana incidental expenses
departmental expenses, printing
postage and stationery and plumb
ing and pipe work. 1S9S-99 ........... $3.50
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $40 800
The following is a, schedule of the amounts
per year for which an appropriation must be
asked from the general fund:
nePars '''''':.''.'''..'''..''... 1000
Furniture and aratus............... $500
P,of 200l
Euei, gas ana water.... $500
Dairy and farm school. 3Oyo
Protection against chinch bugs. ...... 100
Summer school ............,........ 50G
Expenses of Inspecting schools. ......... 1,500
In addition to the above an appropriation
from the general fund of the state to be
needed new buildings, namely wing of re
lief building on campus for College of Me
chanic Arts, 100000; new buildings on farm
for experiment station and farm and dairy
school, 100000, making a grand total of ap-
preparation from the state for the bien-
mum of s309. 500.
In addition to the revenues from the state
the university collects fees from students
estimated at $4,000 per annum, and also will |
receive in the biennium funds from the
United States government as follows:
Agricultural experiment station, per
hnnun SIS 600
Morrill fund (act of congress 1890
loJi-5S 23 900
Morrill, fund (act of congress 1890
lo9o-J5 p 600
The report enters elaborately into the |
reeds of wing of a building to afford relief |
to the pressure for lecture and recitation |
rooms, to be used ultimately as a depart |
mental building for the College of Me |
chanlc Arts and also for the equipping of |
the farm and dairy school and the expert |
ment station with building in which their |
work can be properly carried on. The regents |
urge very strongly that 1t would be serious |
blow to the university to be crippled for
lack of funds at this time and insist that |
il would involve a loss to the girls and boys
of Nebraska which could never be made up