Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-22
REGENT HANKS SAYS .PRESL
DENT is OVERLOADED.
FOOTBALL OR BULLF!GHTS
Former Gridiron Star Says the Game
Is Great to Educate Students by
Getting Them in Contact With
One Another-Says Professional
Team Would Be Fine.
Madison, March IA.

work of taking testimony and may
IS week, perhaps tomorrow, take a
recess until July, when the work
done thus far will be in shape for
the final work on the report to the
governor, which will be presented not
later than November l.
One of the most important wit
nesses of the entire hearing, one VINO
seemed to get at the heart of the
administrative difficulty of the insii-
tuition, was examined yesterday in
Lucius S. Hanks of Madison, a mem
Der of the regents and as such, a
member of the executive committee,
and chairman of the finance commit
tee. He said that 1t was apparent
in his judgment that the administra-
ton of the university was old fash
toned in that the regents got no in
formation other than through the
president. The process was for pro-
fessors to report to the deans, the
leans to the president and the presi-
dent to the regents. Each sealed
the reports and suggestions in line
with their opinions and the regents
sometimes perfunctorily acted upon
the matters laid before them by the
president. The institution has now
grown to such an extent that the
financial administrative work engages
the attention of the president to the
point of exclusion of the educational
matters. The work should be divid-
ed so that the president should de-
vote himself exclusively to the edul
cational matters, to looking after the
400 members of the faculty and staff
OF instruction and keeping them
hacked up to the mark These in
structors and professors cost the
state some 100000 year and their
work should be looked after closely.
The university could be we'll looked
after by one man when it consisted
of about as many students as there
when the cost was less than 100000
year. But now, with 400 instruc-
tors and professors and 1000 stu
dents in the many departments, the
president should administer the edu-
cational side and the large amount
OF administrative details and finan-
cial matters should be taken off his
shoulders.
Football Player Testifes.
Aside from MIR. Hanks, the most
interesting testimony given was that
OF Richard w, Remp, center ON the
football team. He made good i'm.
preston on the committee as ne re-
cited how he had been suspended
from college because he had refused
to pay training table board. He stat.
ed that there was an agreement be-
tween him and Graduate Manager
Fitzpatrick that he should be given
his board free.
Dean Henry appeared before the
! committee in the morning to add tC
the evidence that he had given, as
/ did also Miss Ida Herfurth. Pro
! lessor II. A. Moore was also before
1 the committee in connection with tn,
Knapp case, but gave no additional
mittee for this morning was to as
certain whether or not Professor
Knapp was competent instructor
Other witnesses before the commit
tee We're Professor Russell, Mis-
Blanche Harper, former universit.
stenographer, and Grant Fisher o
, GAINESVILLE. The latter was not in
clined to find fault. but admitted tina
he did not think he had had a squar
deal in his bidding for contract.
Asout That Letter.
Miss Herfurth, the executive cler
, of the agricultural college, requeste'
and obtained permission to offer aG
5 ditional testimony in regard to Gel
4 tain allegations and insinuation
4 which had been made by partie
! heard by the committee last weel
a She related the circumstances regar,
ing the letter addressed to l. H. Al
e ans, which one witness had testifie
a TO having seen her open. At tn
1 time of her first hearing. when tn
: matter was first preached to he
c Miss Herfurth said she did not clea
+ ly remember the incident. Direc
= ~ after that hearing she spoke {
: Mar, Adams concerning it. and wa
n by him informed that he had som
a time previously received from he
L brother certain form letter relatin
to an application for surety bon
made by young man who had pr
viously been employed on the unive
E sity farm. though Mr.. Adams state
, he was not aware that it had bee
{ opened. This statement OF Mr.. A,
: ans clearly brought back to Mis-
I Herfurth's mind the entire incfder
r OF the letter. and she stated to Ii
/ committee that the letter in questio
J was one which had been prepared b
her brother on the evening previov