, 1901-10-08
MANAGEMENT DEFENDED.

Editor Middaugh of the Wheatiand
World defends the university manage
ment and says the discipline can hard
ly be conducted Oh too moral or too
possible reasons for lack of general
patronage of the institution and says
there is yet a more potent cause. and
we believe it may be found in the eX-
pense of living at Laramie" He does
not claim that the expense of living
here is greater than elsewhere in the
pete with the eastern colleges where
living expenses of all kinds are very
low.
The reason does not hold good. all
things considered. and we believe the
parents of Wyoming will bCar us II
in the assertion that they have been
enabled t o maintain their children
here at a lower expense thar they have
been compelled to pay in Colorado or
h east. our rates of living are as
low as those of Colorado and when
boys and girls are sent east they must
pay railroad fare for long distances
and this certainly must be counted as
an expense. In some cases we can
now recall parents have accompanied
their children east.
Mr.. Middaugh's article is so fair in
all respects that we quote it in full
for the benefit of the readers of The
Republican:
"Apropos of the current discussion
i'll many of the state papers relative to
the auses which keep so many Wyo-
ming young men and women from at
tending the state univcrsity-they
choosing eastern schools iustead-the
World can not agree with the criticism
that is made to the effect that the man
agement of the university has becn too
strict to suit the students who attend.
The writer knows nothing personally
of how the university is managed, but
it can hardly be conducted on too
moral or too e~levating a plane. 1t
management of the institution a trife
too many theological ideas-but as a
general principle the social and moral
tone of an educational institution can
not be pitched too high There must
be causes other than the one mention
ed which are keeping the young men
tending its university, and We believe
a brief study of the situation will bring
to view some of these causes. When
the average parent has a boy or girl
10 sent away to college. that parent
if he be human-will consider first of
all the kind of influences and environ,
mentS into which the child is to be
placed during the year at school.
No matter how rough or uncouth the
parent may be, the aim and hone of
that parent will be that the child shall
become as nearly perfect as possible
in all those attainments and attributes
which go to make up manly young men
and model young IN 1t is not
necessary that the student at college
should imbide at the fountain of vani.
ty too freely or absorb too much If the
giggling giddiness which is manifested
too often in colleges and seminaries.
It is not this sort of attachments which
we had in mind in stating that the col
lege life must be of the best in its in
fluences and its impression upon the
lives and character of students. Con
sidered from this point of view, it is
hardly probable that President Smiley.
though a Christian minister, is too
staid in his character or too exacting
in his rules OF decorum TO suit most
parents who may have prospective stu
dents for the university. II President
Smiley and the faculty have erred in
the management Of the university II is
probable they have done 80 in
failing 10 make students take a per
sonal interest in the work and success