The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY,

curators' Annual Statement of q Highly
Encouraging Character-Present Condl-
ton of Institution, Its Needs and
Prospects.
COLUMBIA, Mo-. June S.-The curators
OF the Missouri university have issued
their annual statement regarding the
present condition, the needs and the
future prospects of the institution. 1t
demonstrates very clearly that the uni
versity is far from being in a critical
and crippled condition, as was per-
sistently reported during the closing
months of the last term. The uni
versity has just completed one of the
most successful terms IN its history,
and with careful economy the next
term should be almost as successful.
The attendance during the year just
closed at Columbia was 701, a gain of 81
over the year before. The attendance
at the Rolla school of mines was 1O4. a
gain of 80 over the year before. The
most important improvement of the
year has been in the laboratory faeili-
ties afforded the department of horti-
culture in the completion CT the green
house. Few universities have OPP
p~ortunities for the study of horticul-
ture that are superior; none in the
Mississippi valley except Washington
university, with its Shaw's garden.
The appointment of a professor of
%elocution and of a professor of
b~acteriology and pathology supply Sc
rious deficiencies.
A serious loss to the university will
be the adjustment of the production
of diphtheria %antitoxin, which was
due to lack of funds. For several years
it had been manufactured here with
great success. Although it will be i'm
possible to expand the university in
any direction for the next two years,
all standard courses will be main
tanned, and there will be no necessity
for retrogresSion in any important re-
spect.
In the summer school, one course of
which has already begun, the work
this year will be conducted on a larger
scale than ever before. There will be
instructions in biology, physics. hor-
tlculture, drawing. shopwork and pos
sibly chemist try, if there is a demand
for this study. These courses will be
strictly for the benefit of tEose who ex-
pect to be teachers. The attendance
has largely increased each year, and
from indications the enrolment this
year will be unprecedented. The
courses in biology, shopwork and draw
ing began May 81 and will close July
10. On July IL the courses in physics
and horticulture will begin. and will
close August 81. There is absolutely
no charge for instruction or for the use
of laboratory and material. The staff
of instructors is composed as follows:
NJ. l.. Lipscomb, of the university,
George w. Krall, of the man
ual training school, St. Louis, teacher
of physics; Howard Ayres, of the uni
versity, teacher of biology; C.. NJ. jack
son, Of Columbia academy, teacher of
biology; E. j. Mason, of the univer-
sity, teacher Of drawing and shopwork;
j. c. Written, of the university, teach
er of horticulture; ]. NJ. Stedman, of
the university. teacher of horticulture.
The university will open its regular
term IN september, prepared to accom-
modate a large number of students.
departments will begin as usual,
and though a few members of the IA
Guilty may be missing, owing to the ac-
ton of the curators, no serious changes
will be observed. Instructions in all
lines of study will certainly be con-
1t is not believed that the loss
Of the instructor in physical training,
who has just been obliged to resign,
will deter the university from bringing
put a good football team in Septem-
Der. Work in organizing a team will
Immediately at the opening of
The enrolment in the university
battalion will doubtless be much
than eve before, owing to the
fact hat by a recent amendment of the
,adet law the number of cadetships
will be doubled, thereby making the