Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-06
NEEDS Of UNIVERSITY
President MacLean Tells Ways
and Means Committee Of
S. u. is Wants.
Large Sums Needed for Fire
Proof Buildings..Additional
Tax Asked.
Income for New Structures AL
ready Practically Exhausted
..MacL cans Statement
to Times-Republican.

last evening and presented the views
| of the university faculty and regent:
| in regard to the needs of the univer-
sity and the occasion for the asking o.
an additional tax for building pur-
poses, bringing the university levy w
| to 1-5 mill on the dollar. President
MacLean made a very favorable i'm
preston on the committee and was
corded him and the position Of the
university. He left with the commit
tee the following clear and concise
statement of the case for the con-
sideration of the committee in making
UP the appropriations:
The general satisfaction with the i
10 mill levy is an argument to make
the levy sufficient for the continuation
of the same policy of erecting fire.
proof, permanent and suitable build
ings. The amount received in the first
five years of the building tax exhibit
y, $266,275; balance of tax due If col
lected, ss,725. For this we have the
following buildings to show:
University hospital, including
boiler house,. ..........$ oo.oOo
Hall of Liberal Arts.......... 2O1,7I5
Central heating, power and
light plant, with tunnels. 4I929
S31O.304
Amount received to Jan. /. '02. 266,275
Anticipation of levy of 1902. 44.029
1t ia evident that by the action of the
Twenty seventh general assembly an
ticipating the levy Of 1901 to replace
the books Of the burned library. that
there can be no income from build
ings this year. and the necessary an
ticipation of the 1902 tax to complete
the heating plant that the new nall
of liberal arts might be opened. makes
1t evident no building operations can
be begun In 1903 If the levy remains at
$4,000. In short, building operations
at the university are at a standstill
unless the levy is increased.
The distress of the university for
buildings. due to the neglect of years
accentuated by the present increase
of students improperly housed, be-
comes acute on account of the recent
fires. The fire of March 10, 1901, de-
prived us of rooms in which had been
quartered departments which now &C.
cupy not less than one-half of the new
buildings The speedy erection of a
medical building will only partially
relieve this pressure. The general IL
brary, the engineering department, the
literary societies, so dear and import
AZ s.%;I 1x.fN
cared for The university imperatively
needs Immediately the following build
ings.
An assembly, armory and
gymnasium at present for
economy, combined in one
hall. $500. ....... $500, 900
A fireproof museum. -. ...... 2O0,0 900
A library, fireproof. -. ...... 00,001
College of law building. 100000
College Of pharmacy building. $4,000
A graduate college building.
with scientific laboratories 100000
A plant house. ..... -. 10000
Applied science and engineer
Ing building. 49,. $4,000
Extension of college of dem
tistry now called for. $4,000
Nurses home. :. :. >. ...... 5000
Detention hospital. ...... 5000
Hall for six literary societies.. 10000
Presidents house.. :. :. .. 10000
$1,122 900
These figures take no account of the
actual increase in students and in nee
essary courses and departments of in
struction, but are based upon present
lacks. The total yield of the one fifth
mill tax for the five years would be be-
tween s55O,000 and 100000. sum in
sufficient to meet the present needs.
The regents desire to distribute the
amount not to burden the taxpayers,
and they wish. in the interests of econ
omy, to have reasonable sum in sight
that they may make consecutive plans
to build well, simply and permanently,
as they have begun to do.
The specific reasons are most urgent
for the buildings the regents propose to
erect out of the one-fifth mill tax. (See
the Twenty-second Biennial Report of
the Board of Regents. pages 1919
The buildings are an assembly hall suf-
ficient to gather the students and fac
ulties of the university. for the present
combined in the same building with an
armory and gymnasium. daily as
sembly of the university and chapel ex-
ercises are necessary for the healthful
administration of any real university.
There is no hall in Iowa City that will
accommodate such an assembly. The
commencement exercises, the general
university lectures. debates and orator.
ical contests, suffer greatly for the lack
of such hall. The university has to
expend $500 or 5000 a year in renting
insufficient halls. and will now be
forced to rent circus tent for COM
mencement exercises. The present ar
mory is simply the upstairs part of the
old boiler house. The valuable arms
furnished by the United States can not
be properly stored; there is no proper
room for military drill in Indictment
weather; there is no good place for the
military band to practice, or the lee
lures In tactics to be given. An excel
lent battalion has been maintained un-
der the most adverse circumstances.
Justice to the United States would re-
Quire that the state furnish proper
The second building, as imperative as
the first one named. is the museum of
natural history, a fireproof building in
which may be deposited the valuable
natural history collections, part of
which could not be replaced, now ex-
posed to flames In fire trap Hardly
more than one-half Of the specimens
10 lte,,1 oxy o. .