New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-05
SUGGESTIONS OF co,

in accordance with their recommendations and
report:
A State Department Of Education should he es-
public schools. Its executive powers should be
ercised by officer who should be designated
chief executive educs tionaI officer Of the Depart
ment The Offices Of the Department Of Education
and each bureau Hereunder should be in the Capt
tol n rooms assigned and furnished by Trustees
The Governor. within twenty days after these
PROVISIONS take effect by and with the advice and
Of the University. His Of Office should be eight
lowing his APPOINTMENT His enccessora shoIIfd he
elected by the Regents by ballot and for a full
term Of eight years. An election for fun term
should be held in April next preceding the expira-
ton Of term. Vacancies should be filed for the
Pointments 70 I'll vacancies should begin on the Ist
Shancelor should receive an annual salary OF 10
@a The Chancellor should be removable by ma
jority Of the Regents of the University for
FIVE BUREAUS PROPOSED.
Five bureaus should be established in the State
Department of Education follows:
Firsy-The Bureau of Public Instruction. includ-
ing elementary and high schools and ali public
second-The Bureau OF Higher Education, includ-
meal schools, and also ali schools under university
supervision not included in the Bureau Of Pub
Thlrd-The Bureau Of Home Education, including
Aprarles and museums.
F0urth-fhe Bureau of Law
F1fth-The Bureau of Administration and F.
Each bureau should be under the general super
vision OF the Chancellor. but under the immediate
should have authority. from time time. in their
not inconsistent with law. concerning the powers
ard duties Of the Chancellor and for the admins
cellor should have authority. in his discretion, to
provide for combining the educational administra-
ton Of secondary schools. but without affecting
their supervision by the director Of the bureau in
which they are placed.
The Chancellor should appoint the directors of
bureaus. and subject TO the approval OF the Re
gents, should fix their compensation. He should
have authority 10 remove any director for cause
The Chancellor should have authority designate
two directors of bureaus TO be first and second
Deputy ChanceIlors. Each deputy should possess
eauTed Of hn By the chanceo Pe chs6o G
Tor should also have power to appoint at pleasure
own office. and tx their eompensa ton.
The compensation OF directors, inspectors, ex-
the ShaneeHor or IN any bureau should be paid
Treasurer and should not exceed in the aggregate
the sum annually appropriated fer that purpose By
Each director Of bureau should have author
i5y to appoint and at pleasure remove any as
for bis bureau and subject TO the approval OF
All deputies inspectors examiners. clerks and
employees Of the University and the Department OF
IN he S+afa DenartraSt If EfIiga 1T dI1II- chaeed
OF bureaus should have authority from time 10
such deputiee. inspectors examiners, Clerks and
employes 70 their respective bureaus ,-
The STATE Superintendent Of Public Instruction
in ofIice when this PROVISION takes eject shuld
be the director OF the Bureau OF 6uDuc SIruC-
he was elected Superintendent.
THE BOARD OF REGENTS
The Board Of Regents should be composed Of
be continued as an * ofcio Regent Should pos
sesz all the powers Of an elective s5 Fegea5 9e
and each elective Regent should hold ONCE during
this provision takes effect, IS seventy years OF
age. and each Regent now in Office as vel, as
those hereafter to De appointed, after he is sew
enty years Of age, should be an honorary Regent,
and as such shoulG possess an the powers he[s S
he should have no vote In the Board. No vacancy
after Allied until the number of elective Regents
exclusive OF honorary Regents. is less than four
viii the adyice and consent Of the Board and the
hoard of Regents should be composed OF the Gov
ernor and fourteen elective Regents. If Regent
written excuse. accepted as satisfactory by the
Regents not later than the third eonsecutye meet
ing from which he Is absent. the once shouI9 DC
deemed vacant and should be filed by me GOV
as heFf PT2x o te the cPo aszga to
them by the trustees Of public buildings
OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
The officers OF the University should be presi-
sh5uld be eligible to the offices Of president and
OF ee-Vresident, and q Regent SHOULD not De ell
officers prescribed by the statute OF University BY
The PRESIDENT should preside at al convocations
and meetings Of the Regents and nN the tIEle anu
Unable to act then the vcepresident or II ne also
should be absent the senior Regent present SIOGd
perform all the presidents duties
The Regents should have authority 70 provide for
sity and a. appoint needed officers and employees:
% tx their titles. duties. salaries ana terms o.
exchange. receive by sale gift or grant or on de-
post. books collections, or other properly Per IAN
other property owned by the State and under the5r
of such insurance to make good the loss IS lend
give 70 or deposit permanently with other InstltH
tons books, specimens or other articles IN IeIa
custody, which in this way can be made more
useful % TO prepare and distribute pubIcatloIis
maintain lectures and lend books, pictures, libraries
and apparatus and collections pertaining 10 ad-
cies for home education in bringing within the
reach Of the P sg al egs v si89 neres
recommending methods, designating suitable teach
ers and lecturers conducting examinations, grant
ing credentials and otherwise aiding such work
But nothing contained In the foregoing provisions
should be construed 10 limit the Jurisdictions or
the Chaneeqr or any q The 5are4qs DGs an oi Ihs
be exercised through such bureaus as far as prac-
ticable.
the Public Officers act should not apply to the
selection 0. the Chancellor, so far as residence
nd .5rfz is concerned.
Also. that the University law be so amended as
TO preserve to the University institutions chartered
under general or special acts the rights conferred
upon them by the charters under which they are
created
MELvII. DEwEY's LETTER
Mevn Dewey's letter in protest against the
adoption OF the report OF the majority Of the Edu-
cationaI Unification Commission Is as follows
To his Excellency. Theodore Roosevelt. Governor
Of the State Of New-YOr
In accepting the appointment with which you
honored me as q member Of the Commission on
Educational Unification. II distinctly under
stood that I 70 serve as private citizen. not
in any sense as the representative Of the Regents.
and that If the report agreed on by majority Of
rhe Commission did not accord w1thwhat nv eleven
wears of experience led 70 believe for The best
interests Of the State 7 should be free 10 point
oTT- n Won the reasons Saturday afternoon
signed the report with the six other Commission
ers because Of the desire OF the minority that a
report should not count as the deliberate Judgment
Of the Commission, because majority favored i
b14+ that the report IN itself should clearly inGi-
rafe that on many Of its important features the
S-cr,r15ssfor was divided g. In attaching such