Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-05

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cases students have been provoked by
professors into acts of characterization
and then punished; said professors es-
Gaping uncensured, save by public
opinion.
We differ fundamentally, moreover,
with respect to certain aspects of the
work of an agricultural college. Hith-
erto the attempt has been made in this
College to impart to students the rudi-
ments Of q general education, to sup
plement this with measure of instruc-
ton Of college grade, TO train the
hands in industrial work, and to pre-
pare the students for the function Of
wealth producers. All of this, gener-
ally speaking, and SO far as it goes, we
endorse. We hold, however, that the
time has come when such an education
no longer suftices for the wants either
of the student or of the agricultural
and industrial classes. The wide diff
fusion of popular education has prac-
tically destroyed the scholars monopo-
ly, and the college graduate is found
in the ranks of the unemployed. Fur
ther, to seek to advance the interests
of the producing classes by teaching
them simply to produce more abund-
antly no longer meets their require
ments; for, by common consent, they
are already over-producing the staples
and, in large part, the luxuries of life;
such over-production, accompanied by
corresponding under-uonsumption on
the part of majority of the popula-
ton, resulting IN ruinously low prices,
and in gluts and industrial stagnation.
We believe the time has fully como
when the producing classes must Crap
pie scientifically and intclligently with
the principles governing distribution
and exchange. This necessity, howev-
er, the retiring administration would
not concede. Attempts made in the
past to enlarge the facilities for such
instruction, not on partisan, but on
scientific, lines, have been steadily and
vigorously opposed both by the Presi-
dent and by an overwhelming MAORI
ty of the Faculty. With the issue thus
clearly defined, it became inevitable
that either the Board or the President
and Faculty must give way.
In view of the foregoing facts, this
Board resolved at its April meeting to
take action. Such action, however,
was not hasty One member of its ma
jority is 0n old resident Of Manhattan
and patron OF the institution; two 9TH
ers have served each full threc.year
term on a previous board, and have
long been convinced OF the need for
thorough reorganization of the College.
Tho Board began by removing five
professors and superntendents, while
the President and two professors re-
signed, one resignation being independ.
ent of the reorganization. At the frat
June meeting, three other professors
whose cases had been left pending
were removed, and with them two as
sistants. At the second June meeting
another voluntary resignation occur
red The places the Board are filling
with the best available talent in the
world of scholarship.
AS to the political aspect Of the
changes made: on the resignation OF
the President, strong Republican,
the Board appointed in his stead pro
fessOr who has declared himself, to
boards Republican, Democratic, and
Populist, to be an independent in poll
tics. OF the fourteen members of the
old Faculty to whom positions were
offered, twelve were understood to be
Republicans These were retained be-
cause they were believed to be compe-
tent to perform the work of their sew
eral departments. AS documentary
evidence in our possession shows, we
have underworld, regardless of pslitics
to secure for the vacant places men
and women OF the most thorough
We have elected men TO
positions without inquiring
or learning their political preferences
and we have elected to the chair Of
economic science professor whose
views on certain economic questions
we know to be widely different from
our own. Our sole object, we assert,
in effecting the recent reorganization
Is to raise the standard, increase the
efficiency, and enlarge the usefulness
Of the institution committed to our
charge lndustrialist
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"a, on account of the recent gold dis
soyeries, will give an idea of what
would happen if all the mines in the