The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-28
The NEEDS OF K.U.
Chancellor Strong Outlines
Them at Alumni Banquet.
Ask for Four Hundred Twenty
four Thousand Dollars.
IN NO WISE INFLATED.
Every Cent Is Required for the
Institution.
Calls Attention to What Other
States Have Done.
IN NO WISE INFLATED.

or the university alumni at the ban
quet held last evening at the Metho-
dist church Nearly two hundred
members of the alumni association
were present. Many were in Topeka
from different parts of the state on ac-
count of the teachers convention.
About 40 persons were here from Law-
renee and nearly a hundred Topeka
graduates of the university attended.
Attorney General F. s. Jackson,
John Macdonald, Harold Chase, c. F.
Foley. member of the legislature, and
Attorney 7. F. Doran made addresses
in addition to that made by Chancel-
Tor Strong.
Chancellor Strong outlined the needs
of the university for the coming BIZ
ennial period, showing the need of m
creased appropriations by the next
legislature.
According to the estimate made up
from Mr.. Strongs budget, the univer-
sity will need $424, 600 for the coming
two years. J. M. Nation, auditor or
the state recently went over the fig
ures of Mr.. Strongs budget. carefully
scrutinizfng the more than 800 items
comprising the budget. He also went
over the buildings and grounds Of the
university and learned from personal
observation and inspection the impor-
lance of each of the items on the bud
get. After giving the estimate a care
full study. he gave it his endorsement
and has made up his recommended
that the legislature appropriate the
amounts asked for.
Every dollar that we have asked for.
we actually need" said Chancellor
Strong. When I came to the univer-
stty I decided to not ask for an appro-
priation larger than We needed at any
time. So In making up the budget for
the coming two years every item has
been culled down as much as possible.
We have not made a request for larg-
err sum than we think will be needed on
the theory that 1t win be trimmed by
the legislature, and that the appropria-
ton will then be large enough. In
making up this budget i first made UP
figures for the various departments and
then went over every item to trim them
down to the very minimum point.
Much of the property of the Univer-
sity of Kansas has not cost the state Of
Kansas a cent The total valuation of
the property of the university, includ-
ing land, buildings and equipment is
approximately 81 100000. OF this amount
more than $4,000 has been donated to
the university. and has cost the state
nothing. AS a matter of fact our uni
versity has hardly kept pace with the
needs CT the state or with the pro-
gress of the state universities of some
Of the other states with equal pOpula-
ton with Kansas. For instance, in
1888 the state of Minnesota appropria-
ted $4,000 for the state university while
Kansas appropriated $73, 0O0 For the
last period Kansas appropriated $3l4,-
600 and Minnesota $3.50 000 OF these
amounts Kansas USED Tor maintenance
s250000 and Minnesota $500. 600. the re-
mainder Of the appropriation going for
new buildings Kansas has 13 buildings
and Minnesota 80 buildings.
In Iowa the legislature has made an
appropriation Of $125, 900 per year for
ten years for new buildings for the I'M
iversity. The law has been in effect
for four years, so that there has been
collected for new buildings the sum of
$500 coo. During the same period the
past four years. Kansas has appropria-
ted the sum of $165,0OO for new build
ing:
THE enrolment of the university
four years ago was 1919 and this year
is 1850, being growth Of 500 In enroll
ment with only one new building added
for general university purposes during
the four year period to accommodate
the growth in attendance. This build
ing was the law school building. The
gymnasium was of course built during
this period but 1t gives no addition
room for school facilities, such as reci-
tatiOn lecture rooms. The state of
Iowa has % buildings in the UNIVERSE
ty group in comparison to the Is build
ings at Lawrence.
I'VE suffer from the handicap arising
from the fact that what we are doing
now to relieve the university should
have been done five or six years ago.
Other universities with which we were
once on even terms, like Minnesota.
Nebraska Missouri and Iowa are now
kansas university is larger than the
Universities of Brown, Amherst, Dart
mouth Williams, Wesleyan, Princeton,
Leland Stanford, BowdOin, Boston,
Johns Hopkins. and many others of
equal rank, and will soon have a stu
dent body of $500 to 5000 1t has about
165 laboratories and more than 50 sep
arate teaching departments offering
nearly 700 courses of study p
I give. in the first place, statement Of
49,, nAinten-
ance the estimated income for the next
biennium, the. increase, and IN what the
PRESENT INCOME.
From appropriations Can increase
rp 81 Sees fees collected from students $500
From income on land fund. .----:- 1890
From chancellor's contingent fund oOo
Total $3.50, 800
ESTIMATED INCOME FOR NEXT
BIENNIUM-
From appropriations Can inerease. cox re
OF $500 ss collected from students e oO
From income on land fund .-:--.:.- 1890
From chancellor contingent fund so
Total .s279. 476
I IN WHAT Sf THE 81 IINCREAsE CONSISTS
iH teachers and employees. about $40
Increase for new teachers. Q2)
ln %peaf Tor general equipment. 5.ns
about .s....-.......-....... s.2s5
laneous. about .-...-.......-.-- s,155
Total Increase Observation-Disclosures rs, 576
Increase granted two years ago-...-$ 46, 900
Il ennium ......s-.-.....-..... Is. 576
Decrease - ..............s1 is, s24
give below a statement of the income
Of the university for buildings and special
purposes for the present biennium:
buildings s1I5. 900
Grounds ...-....-....... ............... Is 900
Total .sl2s. 900