The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-21
OPEN FOR WORK.
Commercial Club is Ready for
Business.
An Enjoyable Evening at the
Copeland Hotel.
SPEAK FOR SCHOOLS.
Fopeka's Educational System is
CanVassed Thoroughly.
Topeka Visitors Sunday VIII
Be Shown Attention.
SPEAK FOR SCHOOLS.


aote of the speeches delivered before the
members of the Commercial club at the
meeting last night at the dining room
IF the Copeland hotel
Speeches were made by l. D. White
more. superintendent of the city schools,
Dean Henry L. Mcclellan of Bethany
college and DR.. d. NJ. Fisk of Wash
burn college
Prof. whittemore outlined the work
" the city's public school system He
paid that money for school and educa-
Gonal purposes should be regarded in
The light of an investment rather than
n tax.
THE annual running expenses aside
lrom any appropriation for permanent
construction work will require $154,000.
Rnis money which goes into the hands
sf instructors, artisans. janitOrs and
pthers at once finds its way into the
commercial activity of the city.
Our late school buildings have all
been built up to modern standards with
he idea Of permanency uppermost-
There has been some misunderstood
hg IN regard to the purpose of the new
manual training high school. want to
stRte TO you that II is simply an addi-
hon to the present nigh school, as much
30 if il was under the same roof. In
he present high school we have six more
ksachers than we have rooms for With
he completion of the new building we
EflI be able to give them a place to
York which they have not had during
he past three years
LIZ Whittemore reviewed the various
Improvement work which has been in
progress in various parts of the city He
Explained the new system of heating
hnd ventilation in the high school |
buildings. and made the assertion that
when a new school house is built for
Eouth Topeka, the city will be well pro- |
daaH fnT in he m school
lies for some few years to come
Dean Mcclellan of Bethany college 1
was the second speaker of the evening. |
he is a new man in the management /
Of the affairs of Bethany college, one of |
fhe best known schools in the state. for /
ne education OF girls and young ladies. |
He asked for his school the good
will of the business interests of the
city He asked that the men who
were identified with the commercial
activity of the city always speak a
good word for the school whenever
the opportunity presented itself
1T seems that many people have
a supercilious feeling that the west
is not good enough for them when
he said That is all wrong We
now have schools in the west where
the young may attend and gain a
education and at the same
time acquire the culture which is
spoken of so much in connection with
our eastern schools. We should keep
our children at home in the west They
should get their education in the west
1t is noticeable fact that the bright
est of our western boys who go to
school in the east. usually remain in
the east after completing their edu-
cation We should endeavOr to help
build up the west by keeping our chill
dren in the west.
THE creative power is killed by
criticism, and I would ask you to be
good enough to give our school your
sympathy 1t is not conducted along
lines. We are striving to
accomplish the most good. and every
dollar put into the school is put back
out in many ways"
Dr. Fisk next made a stirring talk
FOR Washburn college He outlined
briefly the marvellous growth of that
Institution and pointed out some of ,
the things which were in store for
hat school in the future /
He said:
''washburn is the child of New Eng {
and sentiment and benevolence and .
of Kansas sacrifice. In SO years of
honorable history it has steadily de- !
Feloped from the scantiest of begin {
nings, but mostly along severely edu- !
natfonal lines. 1t has never yielded {
10 the temptation to dilute its high
work as college OF liberal arts by
NE addition OF commercial, telegraph
&c. and similar schools. but hitherto {
has chung tenaciously to the single
field of true collegiate and preparatory :
work
II
he college has solidified its work. |
plant, endowment and curriculum un-
81 IL has been able to command the !
respect of the educational public of :
The state as the highest exponent of :
careful. high-grade. honest training, :
Ind it has also built up an equip :
nent in the six fine college buildings :
Rice, Hatford, Within. Holbrook. :
Boswell and McNicar) with their fur :
that has put it far ahead of !;
NY other denominational school in !
Kansas
'uiidings. about 500 worth of endow- I
nent. faculty OF Is professors and ir-
feadiiy climbed through every successive |
ecent year to a total enrolment of 32S 9.
Sut now all this seems ancient history. :
Within two years so much has happened !
hat IS revolutionary that the years 1884 c
viii ever mark a new departure for col c
eCe history. o
"A rapid outline of this accelerated col
sge evolution will be of Interest to anv
aean much to Kansas youth and future
vashburn college stands today a verita- a
&c university in all but name. It's disni- r
ed liberal arts course still remains self !
expecting, and four-square with the most
progressive ideas OF the times as the true
major axis of all possible acquisitions q
ldeed the college proper is. and always I
nd most emphasized center and pole of !
EDUCATIONAL interests. but Washburn col +
ese IS TO-DAY Tar more than simply q
choOl OF liberal arts.
he surprising accession of two years 3
I'VE auulAlDual buliQlnRS Astronomical u
oservatOry. heating plant. presidents v
ouses medical college and the Carnegie
braryl. with a total valuation of S12S.-
o. and of four great schools OF perma-
emit value college OF medicine, a school |
law, conservatory of music and II
'hool of fine arts) IS almost enough to :,
Ike ones breath The greater part of =
lese advances have come since the cleo X
on of Rev Norman Plass to the presi- a
sncy- He secured the 5000 donation s.
lat built and equipped the astronomical W
oSerVatOry- He completed the raising Ii
the $4,000 Jewell fund to add to the e.
ldowment- He carried to a successful q,
the merger between the q
ansas Medical COLLEGE ltherl in its I'm ~