Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-15
ABSENCES IN
LOGAN FACULTY
Secretary Of Agricultural College
Files His Report With
The Governor.
ONLY GOOD EXCUSES GIVEN.
while Many Members OF Faculty Were
Ia This City Lobbying Was Last
Thing in Their Minds

The gentle art of giving excuses for
being absent and tardy has long sup
posed to be an exclusive prerogatiye OF
children between the age Of s and Is
This week, however, the stern teach
ers who have long held the whip over
their students, and demanded the suit
able excuse, are facing similar crisis
Today the Agricultural college faculty
follows the University faculty In pre-
sentlng its compliments and excuses for
absence. 10 Gov. Cutler
Just as the excuses of the good little
boys invariably stated that they were
not absent 10 go fishing or 10 utilize
the old swimming pool under the
spreading Bcxclder tree, SO these ea-
cuses omit ell mention of lobbying.
There was not a lobbyist from Logan
within the confines of Salt Lake with.
in the past 6D days JUST as there was
not u lobbyist from the university with
i'm the city during the same period.
ABSENT FROM COLLEGE,
The response from Logan reached
Gov Cutler this morning. 1t Is isgned
by j. A. BeSel, college secretary and
contains the names of all professors
absent within the past 60 days, with
q stat etlent OF the eN cusV- The inves-
tigaIion was suggested because OF the
flocking of professors TO the lobby
rooms of both house and senate. durn 5
the consideration Of the educational
bills. There are % absences 10 ac-
count for. although against several proc
fessoTs there are several counts Presi-
dent w. j. Kerr Was absent on Jan.
| q 10 % 10 attend 4 meeting Of the board
| of trustees, In Salt Lake; from Jan. l6
| 10 is, to attend q meeting OF the execu-
| tive committee of the board at the
| same place On Feb. | he was absent
attending ma tiers relating to- college
interests" In Salt Lake. and on Feb. :.
9. IL 10 II and 70 to 26 he was again In
Salt Lake. attending To matters re-
| latlng 10 college interests" The Vari.
GUS absences give him total of 81
days in salt Lake out of the past 50.
HERE FOUR TINES,
Prof. YoieE was down here fouI
| times From Feb. / TO he was on
gagged inrediting and reading bulletins.
/ On Feb q he Was -4roo1-readine bull
| 1etin t0ON and from Feb. 26 to "a wa
! looking ;lfter the printing OF arid farm
1 bulletins. Prof j. Dryden was her
| for a week from Jan. u To q editing
! proof for the Farmers Institute annu-
| ais. Dryden was away again. but II
was in holding farmers institute al
Bear River City.
OTHER Al5sENTEES.
| Other professors who were absent IN
Salt Lake City during the period arS
.. Il. stephens, who came to assist the
president to- prepare his biennial re-
port; r. s. NerthTup. who came down
10 a meeting OF the Horticultural asso-
81 a Nyl
10 hold conferences with the committee
ON irrigation on the subject OF dTainas,
| bills. and Secy. BeXeli, who came here
TO audit college accounts at the request
| of Senator Park,
SECRETARY-S REPORT.
IN concluding his report Secy. Be1
/ ell makes the following statements. y
| might add that members of the expert
| ment station staff and also members
| OF the college faculty are allowed shor'
| leaves of absence by the director Of the
experiment station and the president o.
the college to attend to matters relas-
| ing to experiment farms, irrigation an(
' drainage Investigations, sub-eSperi-
| mens stations and other matters as the
| interests OF the institution may re-
| aulre. but unless the expenses arc
borne by the college no record is kept
of absences al this office. President
Kerr is In Salt Lake and viii doubtless
| be glad to furnish any additional in.
formation you may require.
Very respectfully,
j, a. BENELL, Secy.
This Ia 81 explanation is construed by
| men who have noticed the attendance
| OF so many educators at senate and
| house sessions, 10 mean that no recorS
| is kept OF many absences. and that TIL.
| faculty members may have been hers
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