, 1901-09-23

and monitor to those placed in
her care. Then we need "A new
deal in management, a big sign
what made lack a dull boy; not
less merit marks perhaps for GO
ing seven times to church on Sun.
day. but more for a lesson learned
event If a service or two he skipped;
a recognition of the fact that in
most cases . boy or girl. if placed
upon honor and permitted a reas-
enable and wholesome license. is
safer han when incased in a
straightforward"
Editor Barrow of the Budget carries
beneath his heading this motto: Fair.
Faithful and Fearless" In view of his
publication of the foregoing article he
should at least eliminate the fair and
faithful portions of the motto, and, in
deed, the fearless" for it is o brave
to speak of friendship while the dead
ly stilletto is being plunged to the hilt.
Dissection reveals two complaints
and many glaring Inconsistencies.
One complaint is that there are no
dormitOries connected with the insti.
tuition. That is true and we all regret
ii Time only will work out a proper
state of affairs in this respect. The
other Indictment is against the worthy
DR.. T.. E. Smiley, and it is our purpose
to state the facts in the course of this
article.
The Budget says we have everything
here except scholars" What does a
comparison show? Nebraska has a
population of 1.06S,53 and 1909 stu
dents in its state university at Lin
coin. an institution. by the way, in
which every Nebraskan takes a lofty
pride. Wyoming has 92,531 popula-
ton and 1877 students in it's state uni
versity. 1t will be seen that Nebraska
has more than eleven times the num-
Der of inhabitants and less than seven
times the number of students. Colo
RADIO has a population of 500, 700 and
$50 students in its state university, a
little less than six times our popula-
ton and about four and one-half times
the number of students. Montana has
almost three times our population and
about twice the number of students.
Idaho has a less number of students,
population considered. Utah alone is
in advance of us in this respect, and
the people of Utah have been taught
the patronage of home institutions
from their early childhood, and the
proportion of children to adults is
greater than that of other states.
Mr.. Barrow refers to the wonderful
progress made by the University Of
Graves took the helm. The record for
1901 SHOWS that the population of the
state of Washington is 51S.1O3 and
that the number of students in the
state university at Seattle is $50. The
population is considerably more than
five times greater than that of Wyo-
ming and the number of students con-
siderably less than four times greater.
This is the star university, to which
attention is directly called, and We do
not suffer by comparison.
The Budget editor says he has been
reading the state papers closely and
that only II student will be added to
the university from outside of Laramie
this year. He should guess again. The
enrolment at this time is greater than
ever before at the beginning of a
school year in the history of the insti-
students are from outside. Every
county in the state but one is repre-
sented. In this connection it might
also be we'll to call attention to the
fact that the school of music %inauguar-
ated by President Graves has been
done away with and that a large num-
Der of so-called special students tax
ing German, French, etc, are not in
attendance at this time.
1t is charged that young people
think more of life than they do of re,
ligion. That is doubtless true, but re-
lision is not a burden to II student
at the state university. Chapel SER
vices are held, but no student is com
PEELED to attend, and vesper services
are held Sunday afternoon. The at
tendance at vesper services is not
compulsory and they have beer so free
from anything savoring of religious
fervor that the ministers of the city
have opposed the meetings.
DR.. Smiley is charged with opposi-
ton to dancing. 1t has been the good
fortune Of the editor of The Republi-
can to see him cooperate with the
boys in their annual cadet officers
ball, and We know that he has no OBJ
lection to dancing in moderation
dancing that will no interfere with
the work at the state university. His
one concern in this matter is the ele-
walton and benefit of the students.
The charge that DIR. Smiley has in
jected his "souf-saving serum into ev-
cry department of his school work. is
utterly false.
The simple truth about the UNIVERSE
ty as at present conducted is that the
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