The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-07-01
Normal Board Will Try to Secure En-.
actment Of a New Law.
Does Not Want the Schools to Be
at Legislators Mercy.
Directors Hold Love Feast With the
Board of Control.
Presidents ReeleCted--.Staff Selected
for Mankato Institution.
From Saturdays Daily.

The members of the state normal
board and the presidents of the normal
schools will not have to get down on
their knees before legislative appropria-
ton committees and beg for money to
run the institutions with, if a plan an
nounced at the annual meeting of the
board in st. Paul yesterday is carried
out. The plan is to have law passed
at the next legislature creating per-
manent one-mill tax for the support
of the normal schools, similar to the spe
cial levies for the state university and
the state school of agriculture.
81 think that the state normal board
should 60 after such law in vigorous
manner" said c. A. Morey of Winona,
president of the board. ''We should be
placed on the same basis as the state
university and the agricultural school.
As it is, frequent attempts are made to
repeal the standing appropriations for
the normal schools, and we are subject
ed to biennial stress and strain urging
legislative appropriation committees to
give us enough money to maintain the
institutions. A mill tax will be better
in many ways"
The question of funds for the normal
schools has caused the members of the
board and the presidents of the schools
considerable annoyance in the past.
President J. F. Millspaugh of Winona, in
his annual address read yesterday by
Prof. Maxwell of Winona, refers to the
malignant hostility of the legislature"
and the financial support which is
"grudgingly granted the schools" The
members of the board believe that all
this trouble will be avoided by the enact
ment of mill tax.
A bill providing for one-mill tax will
be framed by the legislative committee,
consisting of the presidents of the
schools and c. A. Morey of Winona,
president of the board
The state board of control and the
normal board had love feast yesterday
afternoon. Members of the normal board
who have fought the jurisdiction of the
state board of control ever since the
board of control was created explained to
j. f. jacobson, S. W. .Leavet and o.
B. Gould how everything is running
along smoothly, and that it is not so
bad after all to be supervised financially
by the board of control.
'eDuring my service as a member of the
normal board" said jill. Washburn of
Duluth, "this is the first time that the
normal board has met face to face the
state board of control. / wish to take
this opportunity to say that the school
at Duluth is getting along we'll under
the financial supervision of the board of
control"
'T believe that the best of feeling
exists between the board of control and
the normal board" said j. F. jacobson,
chairman of the board of control. "I
don't see any reason why we can't get
along together all right. Of course the
members of the board have to exercise
their individual judgment in many
things, and what we do may not satisfy
all the members of the normal board"
Hereafter all estimates for supplies
and expenses at the normal schools will
be passed on by an executive committee
of the normal board, consisting of the
president and the secretary. This plan
was adopted in response to a complaint
of Judge o. B. Gould of the board of
control that the estimates are merely
nominally approved by j. W. Olsen, state
superintendent of instruction.
The annual statements of the presi-
dents of the schools show that the en-
rollment at the institutions is increasing.
The enrolment in the normal department
of the school at Duluth last year was
1872, an increase of 55 over the previous
year, and in the training department it
was l43, an increase of 46. The enroll
ment at Moorhead last year was Ills.
The enrolment in the normal department
of the st. Cloud school increased from
254 in 1902 to 429 in 1904 Mankato's
enrolment was 6S2, an increase of "a
over the previous year. Winona's enroll
ment was 627, an increase of 7.
Presidents of all the normal schools
were reelected at salary of $4,000
year each. The following staff was Sc
lected for the Mankato normal:
Mankato-C. H. Cooper, president;
Defranca A Swami, geography; Ulysses
o. Cox, biology; Fred 1. Holtz, physical
science; Alice V. Robbins, mathematics;
Frederick L. Soaring, latin; Nellie l..
Woodbury., reading; John A. Hancock,