The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
HITS THE SYSTEM
President Murlin of Baker
Causes a Stir.
Makes a Direct Attack on State
Institution.
STRONG TO THE FRONT
AdrOft Chancellor POurS Oil on
Troubled Waters.
Baldwin City Man Drew Some
Educational Comparisons.
STRONG TO THE FRONT

thousand or more school teach
ers from all parts of Kansas are in
Topeka today attending the forty-f1fth
annual meeting of the Kansas State
Teachers association. Representative
hall was garden of waving plumes
and bright blossomed flowers all fore
noon for there is one thing that the
kansas teacher maintains is her right
whether it is in the country town or
the city and that is to keep her hat
on if she so chooses.
There was more than a sprinklins
of men present at the meeting, but a
guess would be that there are two
school ma ans" present for every
schoolmaster. The meeting was call
ed to order rather later than was ex-
pected as many of the delegates ar
rived on late trains this morning. The
seating capacity of Representative
hall was taxed to it's utmost and sew
eral hundred teachers were compelled
to remain on the outside as the as
ISOLATION adopted a rule which would
not permit any one to enter or leave
the room while the speaker was on the
floor
The first number on the programme,
1.-THE Vocal Interpretation of Literal
ture," was omitted as Miss Ermins
Owen of Pittsburg, who was to have
delivered it. was detained at her home
on account of the serious illness of her
sister.
lin of Baker college all but precipf-
tated trouble between the supporters
of the UNCONVENTIONAL schools and the
friends of the state university, who re-
garded his talk as an attack on the
state institution. The clouds were
dispelled. however. by Chancellor
Frank Strong of the Kansas univer-
sity who while defending state uni
Lawrence. poured oil on the troubled
waters. The ominous clouds which
darkened the horizon of the meeting
and threatened trouble lifted during
the talk of Chancellor Strong, though
the talk of Professor Murlin did not
suit the ideas of propriety possessed
by the friends of the state university.
1T is important" said President Muir
lin, that we identify the denomina-
tional colleges from the state support
ed educational institutions or from the
eectarian schools. In So states universe
ties or colleges have been founded by
state appropriations and are chiefly or
wholly maintained by taxation and
managed by state officers. The denom-
national schools therefore differ from
the state universities in the source OF
support but we must not forget that
they are state institutions just as much
as the ones supported by the taxes COL
lected by the state.
1.-THE difference between these So
called state institutions is that the one
is supported by a compulsory tax levied
on the people of the state and the 9TH
er is maintained by donations. Seven
of the nine justices of the supreme
court of the United States are from de-
nomina ttpnal colleges. Eighteen of the
twentyS5x presidents of the United
States were college men and sixteen
out of this number were from denom-
national colleges.
mot even the most ardent friend OF
the state university idea can be so much
of an enemy of his country as to lay
one jot or little in the way of the on
ward progress and development of the
private and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS institutions
If It were not for the denominat1onal |
schools of Kansas the state would be |
compelled to have 900 invested in
her educational plant in place of two |
millions 1t would cost the state three |
million dollars annually to employ in |
structors and conduct the schools In |
the place of one million.
1T may be wilt to take FOR granted that |
the state supported institution Is es-
sentfal to the welfare of the state, but |
II Is no less essential than are the de- |
noninational schools. Fourteen years |
ago there were 81 high schools in the |
state preparing for freshman entrance /
TO the university. Today there are $50 |
and within the next five years there
will be 400 or more.
1.-THE professional and technical
schools gratified with the preparation
offered by the high schools have been
content with the preparation thus az
fordad The result has been for many /
years a tendency TO grind out the col
iara between the neither milestone. the