Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-17

training schools to better qualify
teachers for district schools, and for
the extension of the existing system
of state aid to high schools, in order
to reach and improve the weak graded
schools in the country, and establish
others where they are so much need
ed. | believe that legislative action
to meet this emergency in the life OF
district schools cannot be too strongly
recommended.
University of Wisconsin.
THE reports of the board of univer-
sity regents and of the president IF
the university convey to you detailed
information respecting the growth
and needs of this institution. The
value to the state from its continued
development, and its reputation
throughout the country, are so well
established and so generally appreci-
ated that its friends and supporter
can have no cause of apprehension for
the future. Its growth in influence
and usefulness within the last decade
has tACttuGu Tic anu
hopes of its most sanguine promoters.
State provision for the increasing ex-
penses inseparaole from growth has
been generous and prompt The new
burdens have been carried by the PEG.
pie without complaint If the advo.
Gates of university expansion will
keep in mind their obligation to the
lcto MI fnl, he
ening the zeal for the cause in which
they have enlisted, am sure that they
will meet with few obstacles in legis-
lative action or in public sentiment.
THE plea sometimes made that
state universities cannot afford to
lavishly endowed by multi-millionairee
is not valid. II is not necessary to en-
gage in competition in extravagant ex-
penditure. In point of fact, our own
and certain other state universities in
the west are competing successfully in
work and growth with the Oldest and
most richly endowed colleges in The
country, without expenditures wifi h
| would bear comparison. You will not
/ forget-indeed the friends of the uni
versity will not permit you to forget
that the University of Wisconsin has
its rivals in universities of neighbor-
| ing commemorative. Few citizens OF
Wisconsin will be found ready to argue
that this state cannot afford to keep
pace with adjoining states III educa-
tional work and advancement.
During the last biennial period the
material improvements of the univer-
sity have included the enlargement of
main hall, the construction of a suit
able building for the college of engi-
neering, and the completion of the IL
brary building for the State Histori-
cal society and university. The first
provision for the last-named structure
was made under Gov. w. II. Upharn's
administration, and largely through
the instrumentality of his influence.
AS permanent home for the invalu-
able historical records and volumes of
the state, as well as an important aux
iliary to all university work, this
splendid structure will stand an endur-
ing monument to the enterprise of is
| DISTINGUISHED projectors.
| Additions to 'the means of acquir-
Gus branches of learning" during the
ing thorough knowledge of the vaci-
last two years, include the reorganiza-
ton of the college of engineering and
the establishment of the school of his
tory and the school of commerce.
The purpose OF this last school is to
furnish course of study especially
fitted for the training of young men
who wish to enter business careers or
branches of the public service I'm
which a knowledge of business is es-
sential. The practical utility of such
school to meet the demands of a
commercial people requires no argu-
ment
Under the head of immediate and
special needs which will call for extra
appropriations, the university authori-
ties make most prominent T. new build
ing for the college of agriculture, suit
able equipment for the new building
of the college of engineering, ami
provision for the school Of commerce.
] have no hesitancy in commencing
each of these proposed improvements
as worthy your approval, but confess
some doubt as 10 whether you will be
able to honor all the worthy demands
upon the taxing power without impos-
ing an onerous burden upon
the tax-paying power of the
state. For reason somewhat
similar to those which prompt
recommendation of state aid to coun-
try schools, | am inclined especially
to favor every pracucal encourage
ment to the growth OF the college OF
agriculture without delay. Perhaps
1t is as well to admit that the execu-
tive may be influenced somewhat by a
kindly prejudice In favor of the Uni.
versity OF Wisconsin. But | am con-
WINGED that it's friends will have no
cause for disappointment IL you deal
with its acquisitions and arguments
with the most strict analysis of their
merits.
The normal school regents have
beer hamDered gomewhat In tha L..