Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-16


of Maine her students to work in our com
mon schools-our common schools. 70,
the students of Rates-and the same thi,o
holds good in great degree of all our New
England colleges-have never been sepa-
rated in sympathy from the common PEG
pie. This very year 1870 students of Bates
College are teaching in the towns OF
Maine. Now, i ask you, trying this by
tne strIctly educational test, does ii have
any significance as to the value of Bates
College to the State of Maine? | make no
comparison. Comparisons are odious
rejoice i'll the ducational work of all our
1 institutions emlnently rejoice in the
work of our normal schools But I ask
You, what normal school is doing at this
/ moment. or has been doing for the last
10 or IL years. more for the State of Maine
: exceptionally than Bates College? So far
as | know. we are the only college in
Maine that now has distinctively peda-
gosical course as a preparation for teach
: ing, preparation for good citizenship Tor
/ the principles that underlie a sound cdll-
cation, that undcrlie the development Of
! the family, that underlie the DEVELOPMENT
Of the State, that underlie civilization it
self, and that should be open to be read
and understood by all students. if they so
| elect, whether they are looking towards
teaching or any other calling
| Now. gentlemen as to the needs of Bates
! College. Our State has given her SIS 900
and she responds to that with property
| of $70O0 600. certainly tWo-thirds probably
three fourth OF it. given by people in other
states mainly for the benefit of the chill
dren of Maine-because the people of other
states have good reason to believe in the
material that the State of Maine affords
! to be educated Is that poor response to
! the $1,000? Is that feeble return for the
| help that was given us? But. gentlemen,
of that $100,000, $500 600 exists in the form
| of land, 30 acres of land and buildings
| eight buildings, the last building erected
! Just completed by a tremendous effort a
desperate sacritice-yes, gentlemen a des-
perate sacriice-just completed at cost
| OF a little more than sal 900 and thrown
| open, a beautiful library building. to the
poorest of the sons and daughters of
Maine. at a cost. gentlemen. unparalleled
at least in New England in the way of eff
fort and sacrifice. And of the somewhat
Hess than $780, 900 $685., 900, as shown by the
Hast report of our treasurer $135 coo does
not belong to the college properly speak
ing 1t belongs to a school that is CON
I'troled by the trustees of the college but
is distinct from it, organically distinct,
what is known as the Cobb Divinity
School so that for the college and it is
the college of which am speaking today,
there remains somewhere about SIS 900 to
carry on this great work. Now, gentle
men. You have heard in the kind intro
duction that preceded my remarks, some
thing of the struggle of Bates. She can
not point to any great disaster thank
God She would not if she could ALLEVIATE
one dollar from the sister institution that
has suffered a disaster, but she points to
a record extending through all the years
of heroic struggle of unceasing self de-
NAL, to Il long period when each member
of her faculty voluntarily gave out of his
salary 5000 back into the college treasury
that its work might go on. She points
to that, and she asks whether she is
worthy Of the being you gave her when
you granted her charter? You can readi
~ see that with 321 students in the college
proper. every one of them pursuing
course of four years leading to Il degree,
you can see that we have no adequate
fund to carry on the work that Is being
carried on at Bates College. 1t must be
by o tremendous sacrifice on the part of
the teachers there. Bates College did once,
years ago, avail herself of the opportunity
to have a house for ner president that
should be exempt from taxation under the
conditions existing in the State of Maine
by statute but she long ago gave up that
advantage even. and for years every
house in which the president or any MON
Der of the faculty of Bates College has
resided has paid it's fair share of taxation
in the city, and no faNors have been
granted in that respect 1t is my impress
sion that Bates is single and alone III this
particular. Now. in the kindly introduce
ton that preceded my remarks you were
told that we have to raise thousands OF
dollars each year. That is true Last
year $500, after an economy so rlgld that
we would have been delighted to have you
examine It, $500 We're required to make
mn the deficit And where did that money
come from? Not from the State OF Maine,
no V.
not from tne t tho,,so,rd doilars from indi
anonhl o. nIie Stotn ~ M"ina Where did
hlduals IN f t.le W. " If cane from those
II CONF Il 5nn onIe oittsita the State of
no lid believe in our bows
Maihc Miio' M az go an tbere ,nust he after
ana ellls' Imt5 oeonnn,v = deficit of at
the l9osI e. al ,1niarstand that the
least SNVV' lol $ bo s stnclfe and bonds and
ihterest uP e , e,ie ic constantly Ginin-
eIit soi VI r. ~. % nitaj Is increasing
lShlnS cnel, - 49, 49, ,rn,i If in view of the
NOV M1ii ~ ~ ,,a ,tIA Il in yiew of the work
hisIorN ol ny pa'i Il il l,icw of her needs.
Di bates Noi f - desnerate struggle. the
II III we" ~ Iri If Won comnare the
une mas Set Sta+o Of M9ine with the ac-
action OF 1he SIato u plrt.lanG states when
ton or othfI NV 1tsT,,;rnn6 from nublic CON
she si!9ulu nc In2nrthv of aid?
sidera'loh "S uH"0i Wy ,,'.,,o.,,. ,ho
What are her nee1 E hv not Wing so 70
needs more funds. we are not sClniS -
ask the Legislature OF Maine 70 conlli tn1tl
to our fund. We are gong 10 trg 10 .aHo
care of that and bring Il up win aeSpc dooa
effort where there WI not bG ms $SV W.
deficit. But in addition 70 inis hSem 81
funds she has great nnineuId A. VI 5t Inr
need. Bates College among her ot ~
honors, has this distinctive one, Una. S 7il5
was the first college east OF ONO 70 MIX