Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
FINAL SESSION HELD.
University Presidents Con-
vention Adjourns.
OFFICERS ELECTED
PLACE OF NEXT MEETING NOT
YET DECIDED UPON.
Association of Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment Stations and the
Horticulturists' Meetings.

The presidents of the state universities.
meeting at the Shoreham today. concluded
their business. elected officers and in con-
junction with the agricultural college dele
gates and the herticultists. called on Presi1
dent Roosevelt. 1t was declared to be the
largest attendance that the state univer-
sity convention has ever enjoyed. There
were representatives present from every
state and territory that has state uni
verslty with the exception of Oregon The
last session was rather strenuous, but ad-
Journed without passing any resolution re-
garding foot ball, as had been expected.
The convention was limited In time, and
after some complimentary remarks concern
ing the game by President Andrews yester-
day. there was long resolution of just the
contrary sort introduced by President w. O.
Thompson of the Ohio State University to-
day. The resolution was to the general eff
feet that the time devoted to foot ball Is
wasted, and deplored the brutality and spfr
Ii of professionalism believed to be creep
Ing into the game.
The resolution brought out the fact that
there were both strong advocates and OPP
ponents Of foot ball present, all of whom
threatened to have their say. The reso-
luton was accordingly tabled temporarily
to allow the conclusion of the regular pro-
gram, ana as the hOur Tor meeting the
President came around and there was no
prospect Of definite action or full discus
sion, some one sprung resolution to ad-
tourn, and the meeting was dissolved until
next year, with the foot ball resolution still
on the table.
AS 1t was, a good deal of unfinished bust
ness will have to go over. The next place
of meeting has not yet been definitely Sc
lected. 1t will have to be named after a
conference with the convention of agrtcul-
tural colleges and experiment stations. for
the two conventions are always held In the
same city Immediately following each other.
The chances are however, that the meeting
will be held at Berkeley, Cal, where the
state university is located, great pressure
having been brought to bear from the
Pacific coast to influence this selection.
a@ Election of Officers.
The convention elected the following Off
GERS:
President, Richard H. Jesse of the Mis-
souri, University; vice president, Charles r.
Van Hise of Wisconsin University. and sec
rotary and treasurer, George E. Fellows
of Maine University. who filed the same
office in the past year.
The executive committee will consist of
the above officers and George E. Mclean of
Iowa University and Robert B. Fulton of
Mississippi University. The ex-offcio presi-
dent of the organization, as formerly. Is DR..
william T. Harris. United States commits
sioner of education.
There was also appointed special COM
mittee of three, consisting of Presidents
j. H Baker of Columbia, NJ. II. Buckham
of Vermont, and w. o. Thompson of Ohio,
to confer with the committee of 400 on
plans for national university. This COM
Ynittee will report at the next meeting.
An important step was taken by the adop-
ton of resolution to appoint delegates to
confer with the associations of colleges and
preparatory schools of New England.
of Maryland and the middle states and of
the southern association on the establish
ment in common terms of a standard for
admission to colleges. This sort of uniform
ity has always been lacking In the United
States. and the establishment of common
standard would greatly aid and simplify
preparatory school work as well as help
the colleges themselves.
Proceedings Yesterday.
Yesterdays session of the state university
presidents was full of interest to all en-
gagged in teaching The pension question
and foot ball were the two questions of the
grea test popular interest.
President Andrews placed himself rec
ord as the friend of foot ball, and. in fact,
all other college athletic sports. He said:
II approve, under reasonable regulations,
ell the usual forms of college sport-track
athletics. tennis, base ball, basket ball. foot
ball and rowing-though rowing is not to
be specially commended. partly because few
can engage in 1t and partly because II is
not safe sport for matches.
Foot ball itself does not deserve the
censure it Is now fashionable to mete out.
The game is strenuous which Is its glory
for young men need training In that quail
ity but it is not rough In the sense most
naturally assigned that word. Played under
due oversight. foot ball breeds not callous-
ness but kindness and restraint. AS
schooling in alertness. courage. self-mast-
cry, motor-efficiency. exact discipline and
determination to achieve, ii has equal
short of army navy service. Nothing
else In or about college is in these points
comparable. Its advantages reach not few,
but many. Evils, of course. attach to the
sport, as to everything worth while These
are to be deplored and repressed, not ex-
aggerated paraded. No few of these
we ourselves create by artificial and IN
reasonable regulations on eligibility
Teachers Pensions.
Regarding teachers pensions it ex-
planned that the system now in vogue
in but two or three of the colleges of the
east.
In this connection the discussion regard
ing the Carnegie $1O.O000O0 pension fund
arose. The college presidents hope that this
fund may be made applicable to state uni
versities, but whether this will be or not
President Schurman OF Cornell. who is a
member of the board of trustees to adj
minister the fund. was not able to say. In
making the donation, he explained. Mr..
Carnegie had left the impression that 1t
was not. President Schurman will leave
a meeting of the board Of trustees
President Venable of the University OF
North Carolina opened the discussion re-
garding loan funds and other help for stu
dents. His report showed that there were
many institutions having funds from which
loans were made to students. the highest
loan fund being that of the University OF
Georgia, which has S135 200 available for
the purpose The general opinion favored
confirming loans to students TO assist them
through college to about $500 for their en-
tire course or $50 for any one term.
Other Topics Discussed.
The morning session yesterday was taken
up with discussions on various topics pro-
vided for in the regular program. The first
was on What Are the Minimum Condi-
tons That Universities Should Be Able to
Furnish In Order to Be Justified in At
tracing Graduate Students?" The discus
sion was opened by President Ayers of the
University of Tennessee. Following this
was paper on THE Minimum Conditions.
Environment, etc, Favorable to Graduate