The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-08-17
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: OUR STATE STUDENTS
Minneapolis Labor Review Deems
Money Expended for University
Improbable Investment.
Standing of Minnesota University
Compared With Schools Of
Other States. :: ..

The most Improbable investment
Minnesota has today from the stand
point IL results, is the State Univer-
sity. While many honorable and re-
spected citizens of the state have
graduated therefrom. they are of the
class who would be honorable and re-
spected if there never was a state
university, and that they are now hon
ored and respected is not because of
the institution but rather in spite Of
it. It is a breeder of a lot of callow
youths who, when thrown upon the
world, few Of them reach~ 'mediocrity
in their profession and none Of them
national celebrity in any chosen line
of calling, and it is a fact that of all
state institutions in the country the
Minnesota University has no man of
national reputation in it's list of grad
yates and few who have even reached
prominence in this state, and these
few have reached it rather through
political preferment than by the exer-
else of any talents that were educated
at the public expense In it's long
years of being we believe il has grad
uated only one whom the regents felt
safe in adding to its list of professors
these latter gentlemen nearly all be-
Ing graduates of eastern COLLEGES It
has no standing outside of the state
the graduates Of the Michigan, Wis
consin and Iowa universities ranking
higher than it in all professional and
educatiVe lines. It may boast that it
turns out good citizens, but if good
citizenship is taught there it is not
exemplitied in the drunken brawls,
destruction of property and assaults
which the law-abiding citizens have
to put up with yearly at the hand Of
these student paupers, for whose
higher" education the state is stand
ing sponsor and is paying tie exorbit-
ant bills.
10 Minneapolis, in particular, 1t is
a positive detriment, as it dumps here
yearly an army Of students who work
for their meals in restaurants carry
ing dishes, get rooms free by waiting
on tables or doing chamber work in
university boarding houses, carry the
daily papers to obtain "eating" or
spending money, do porter work
around saloons, hotels and business
houses and other such employments,
thus coming in direct competition
with women, girls and boys who must
make their own living, anl who are
underbid in the market by this Chin
csc labor of university students. Most
OF those youths can pay their own
way, If they wish to, but they are
mercenary and grasping to an ex-
IRENE, and because the state makes
paupers of them IN giving them FREQ
the advantages of higher education
they cannot get over the idea that
Minneapolis is due to support them.
For every decent self-respecting
gentleman the university has gradual
ed since its inception, it has thrown
upon the world a hundred despicable
specimens Of manhood who hang on
the skirts of the honorable professions
ready to drop off at any time if a
little easy mney" is offered them to
compete with labor is waging a con-
troversy.
This is not the case with the ladv
students nor the farmer boys at the
agricultural colleges. They are self
respecting and devoted students, but
in the scruff of humanity that we find
waiting on tables, carrying dishes, do
ing chamber work and scrubbing
floors, the state is educating an army
of paupers, cheap laborers and greedy
cormorants who are more likely to be
public charges in almshouses or pris-
ons than they are to become an honor
to the state or it's university.