The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-05
Meeting of the Board of
 Trustees.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute Is Now Crowded Over Its Capacity And The Legislature Must Be
 More Generous.
By win T. sheehan.

Auburn, June 4-(Special Correspon- dance )--Auburn has no problems of the paat nor of the present. Its past has been satisfying, its present gratifying. contentcd with what Is. satisfied with at has been, the Board of Trustees l met today and grappled with the aues- 1 lions in which are enwrapped Auburn's prosperity and continued greatness. It is Alabama's great technical and industrial institution. Its growth has been so rapid that it's future presented
 difhcult uestions--ouestions which de-
 mand zeal, ability and energy in their solution. The questions of prime prom thence Is. How to provide for Auburn's future 50 that It's growth shall not be
 stopped, It's noted efficiency impaired. or
 the scope of its energies cramped and
 The Board win not permit the school | to be held back. That much is assured, | if 1t is in the members of the Board l of Trustees to give that much of as-
 sy the pro@insns Hninn Citizens Of Aiabams who make up the Board will be left undone to have Auburn fill out its des. tiny and occupy to its fullest it's field of usefulness, constantly ana ever
 Board studies Questions. The Board met today to deal with those questions. The Legislature will hold it's quadrennial session before the | next annual meeting of the Board. What is to be done must be done now. From that great blunder of the con-
 stiutional convention in making the quadrennial no interest in Alabama has so suffered as the educational interest of the State. The decree that no ses- sion of the Legislature should be held Il in f0lIr was in ef- l feet a declaration that the educational interests of Alabama should stand still for four years. The development of
 these interests In spite of this blind provision, is a matter for surprise. and their schackling and cramping by this provision, is that which should bring
 a sense of shame to the men who wrote | 1t in the constitution.
 The Board of Trustees at their meet | ing today went out to see that the f claims of the Alabama Polytechnic In- stitute should be laid fairly and square | ly before the next Legislature. A leg | islative committee was named from it's members. The committee is to see that
 the needs of Auburn are made known | to the members of the Legislature. l A splendid presentation of these needs was made this morning in the annual report of President C. c. Thaeh, sub- mitted to the Board of Trustees. when
 the members assembled this morning at Il o'clock.
 In his report President Thach em- phasized the difference between tech nical and a literary education. The | modern idea of education. the educa- | tional idea in the ascendant. was that l education should be technical and in- dustrial.
 Advantages of Technical work. Technical education, President Thach l pointed out was necessarily of high CT cast than a literary education. II | was of q higher cast because of the ah-
 solnte need of equipment. iaboratories N. 1--. -nA. kN-w. s~~- E.A A
 ern ideas demanded these as the swift est and most efficient means of educa- | ton. The need of increased aceommo- l dations and facilities at Auburn were pointed out. had jumped in the past | year from 515 to 5S0. The college books showed, too. that the per cent. | of those who had left college during year of the institutions history, a fact which bears upon Auburn's efficiency and which is illustrative of the great commercial and industrial prosperity of Alabama.
 In speaking of the needs of the Ala | bama Polytechnic Institute in his re- port, President Thach said: T desire | to call attention to some of the tmper- ative needs of the college which must | be met at an early date If we do not wish to fall behind similar institutions | in adjoining States, and if we hope to | do the best work possible for our com monWealth. The great Qlnerence m the cast of the old type of education and | the new, or technical type. must ever | be borne in mind.
 | Expenditure Involved.
 The methods of the laboratory, that, | Is, the method of practice and work, in- wolves the expenditure of large sums of money for the equipment of technical | institution. With twelve or fourteen Edifferent departments in such a college ! 1t is very much like having twelve or ! fourteen different commercial establish ments
 "Expencive apparatus, the lat