Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-06
State College Will Request Next
Legislature For Almost a
Million Dollars
TRUSTEES HOLD A MEETING
Needs of the College Are Discussed
and Plans Made to Lay Them Before
the Next General Assembly-several
New Buildings are Needed = Storms
Statement.


the trustees of the Iowa State Agrlcul-
tural college, held yesterday AFTERNOON
| in the office of Governor Cummins al
| the state house it was decided to lay
before the next legislature the needs
of the college in the way OF mainte-
rance new buildings. ETC., which would
require an appropriation of about $780,
600. or nearly million dollars, to: be
expended in the course Of the next i've
or ten years.
The members of the executive COM
mittee present yesterday were j. b.
Hungerford. of Carroll; w. j. Dixol.,
OF Sac City; C. S. Barclay. OF West
Liberty, and James Wilson, Of Des
Moines. With the committee met Gov
ernor A. B. Cummins, an ex- offlcio
member; DR.. A. B. Storms president of
the college; E. w. Stanton, secretary
of the board and professor of mathe-
mates at the college; Professor c. r..
Curtlss, head of the agricultural de-
partment, and Professors A Marston
and T. w. Bissell, of the engineering
department.
Several differences OF opinion arose
among the members of the board be-
fore decision was reached. Some
Of the members were not in favor of so
large an appropriation, deeming it I'M
reasonable to suppose that It could be
secured.
Another difference Of opinion arose
over the question as to how the appro-
priation should be asked for Some
were OF the opinion that the needs of
the institution should be stated definite
ly, while others believed that a general
statement should be presented and the
amount of money needed be asked.
The trustees are not entirely harmon
ious on the question Of the manner in
which the money should be expended.
Concerning the needs of the institu-
ton. President Storms gave out an au-
thorized statement in which he said:
The committee on legislative askings
appointed by the board of trustees OF
the Iowa State College Of Agriculture
and the Mechanic Arts find that the
most serious embarrassment under
which the institution Is laboring Is the
embarrassment OF prosperity. The stu
dent enrolment, which last year reach
ed an aggregate OF 1922. bids fair, this
year, to come near 1900. This means
that every one Of the twenty three de-
partments in the Institution is crowded.
well nigh to it's utmost capacity. The
classes are large and it is found by
comparison that the teachers are many
Of them doing third more work
than is required OF teachers in other
institutions. The trustees are faced by
the necessity OF increasing the teach
ing force and the equipment turnout
the entire institution.
"A very substantial increase of the
support fund is pressing necessity and
will proba bly, be the first item in the
list of askings OF the legislature. A
comparison with former years discloses
the fact that the present support funds
Of the college are considerably less
than one half, relatively to the atten-
dance and the work done. what they
were in 1884, I. e., 1t is costing the
state less than one-half as much per
student in attendance to maintain the
institution on the present basis than 1t
did in 1854. II IL felt the college must
sCI1OA6iS 5uAGl u1iGcS LCiiCA 10 SidutEU
in this matter in the immediate fu-
ture.
Conservative men outside as we'll as
inside OF the Iowa State College an
ticipate an attendance OF from 1000 to
2,50D within the next three or five years.
This will necessitate doubling the pres
ent faculties and the present equipment
Another item in the asking Will be
for an appro priation to furnish the new
main hall and to equip the same for
light, heat and water. The furnish
ings will. OF necessity. be somewhat
expensive, as the botanical laborator-
les are to occupy one floor and another
is to be fitted up for the officers of the
administration. No funds will be avail
able for this purpose at the completion
OF the building itself. in the fall of
1905, unless special appropriation is
made for that purpose. and the hall
would therefore stand empty and I'M
used for an entire school year. This
would be q serious situation In the face
of the fact that the temporary emer-
gency hall. erected at the time of the
burning Of the old main hail. IL so
slimsy, uncomfortable and noisy as to
make its occupancy longer than IS alb
necessary extremely undesir-
able. The classes in attendance at the
hall enroll 1919
Another item In the askings will be
for an appropriation for the new heat
ing plant, the present temporary ar
at the different buildings
being expensive and unsatisfactory.
IA considerable increase will be ask
ed for the support of research work
in agriculture Iowa will be asked to
increase the annual APP
for the experiment station
work.
"A new dairy building VIII also be
asked for and Is very much needed. as
the old time building is very much di
lapitated and out of date. Additional
land is needed for the sustenance of
a dairy herd, that investigation may
be carried on concerning milk produc
ton and also that the supply Of milk
for the work of the dairy may be Sc
cured. Other institutions like the dairy
de apartment of the Wisconsin State Tn
iversity have found themselves serious
ly embarrasse in the matter of milk
supply and the Iowa State College is
already meeting with considerable diff
ficulty in this line. The appropriation
to the Wisconsin dairy for supply now
amounts to 10000 year.
among other greatly needed build
ing at the state college Is an auditor
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