The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-12
THE UNIVERSITY INVESTIGATION
THE COMMITTEE FIND NO GRAFT BUT RECOMMEND THE
DINING HALL RECEIPTS Be ACCOUNTED FOR. RENO
WIDE Open, BUT BY NO MEANS AS BAD MORALLY
AS REPRESENTED

The committee of state institutions
OF the assembly which recently made
a trip 20 Reno to investigate the af-
fairs OF the state university inmedi-
ately alter charges OF graft were
made against that institution, ye5ter-
day submitted lengthy report to
the assembly as follows:
Your committee on state institu-
tons beg leave to present their report
on the state university.
We have visited the university,
carefully inspected the buildings and
grounds and made diligent inquiry
into its condition and management.
We would say. at the outset, that
our university has done and is doing
great work for Nevada.
Under the fostering care of a gen
erous state for many years i'll the
throes of the financial depression, the
university with insufficient means
and equipment has grown, i'll twenty
one years, from a mere preparatory
department to its present gOodly
proportions, ranking with the state
universityies of several older states.
1t has given its graduates an edu
cation and training that has enabled
them to take important positions Ii
the mining world and positions O
honor and responsibility in bushes:
and professional life.
} The States Liberality.
Considering its past condition il
respect to population and tinancia
means, Nevada has been liberal t,
its university. And yet for lack o
ample means, many things that ough
to have been done, have been lef
undone. And, i'll consequence, con
ditions have been created that ar
not in harmony with the continue,
progress and usefulness of the uni
versity.
Our state is now in an era of re
markable development and prosperit.
The university should be enabled t.
get into line with these new con
ditions that it may better conserv
its mission. the advanced educatio
and proper physical and moral train
Nevada
The Attendance.
We have examined into the re
ported dissatisia ction at the univel
sltv and decrease in the attendanC
arising therefrom. For one or tw
years prior to the present year, ther
was some decrease in the attendance
but this was due largely to cause
, other than the one alleged. The fal
ing off in attendance was in the maj
in the preparatory and normal d.
partments. This was ocCasioned b
: improved opportunities for prepar;
, tor work at home, and by large
l increased demand for teachers in RI
t raj schools, enabling high scho
e students throughout the state to S
!. cure teachers positions without a
tending normal schools.
Reno's Moral Conditions.
Exaggerated reports as to the mo
al conditions in the city of Rel
5 have influenced some parents to SCI
t their boys and girls to other III
versities.
II Your committe might say in pas
Il ing. that while Reno is undoubted
''wideopen" town that it is n
more so than other towns in o
state. 1t has its evil side but it is
i town refined and cultivated home
o few towns on the coast containing
e larger percentage of good peopl
a Evidently, however. if it is to CO
4. tinue to be an educational center,
must abolish some existing evils
bring them under more effective CO
troll.
< The Campus.
l. Your committee believe that t
s. time is at hand for a marked broa
n ening of at least one department
n the university, and for making t
b university campus more attractiy
;s more homelike, more beneficial
= students, the young men and WON
for whose benefit and for who
future usefulness to the state the IL
versity is maintained.
Low Salaries.
J.. The salaries of the professors a
H. the instructors at the university {
re admittedly too low. They are abe
u what they were when the state W
- poor and the cost of living abe
:. thirty per cent lower than at prese
~ Good men cannot be had or long
tanned on insufficient salaries