The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-02-20
COMMITTEE FAVORS
IMPROVEMENTS
ENDORSES PRESIDENT WHIT
FIELDS ESTIMATE FOR RE-
PAIRS AND ADDITIONAL
BUILDINGS AT j. I. AND G.
Committee Examined Into Conditions
at A. and VI. College, and Sub
mitted Exhaustive Report Re-
garding Same.

The joint committee on Universi-
ties and Colleges from the House
and Senate, which recently made an
inspection of the various institutions
conducted under the auspices of the
State has submitted it's final report,
which, taken as a whole, is an en-
dorsement Of the management of
these schools and a recommendation
that the appropriations asked for in
each case be granted.
That portion of the report which
refers to the Industrial Institute and
College in this city praises the excel
lent work which is being accomplish
ed there and refers to President
Whitfield in the most complimentary
terms. The committee found condi-
tions at the college just exactly as
stated in President Whitfield's re-
port. They found that library and
gymnasium are essential to the work
of the college and that the dormi-
tories are badly in need of repair.
They recommend that the Legislature
make an appropriation sufficient for
the improvements and additions as
outlined IN President Whitfield's re-
port, and also recommend that the
suggestions of Chancellor Kincan-
non regarding improvements at the
State University receive favorable
consideration.
The report of the committee re-
garding conditions at the A. and NJ.
College is full and complete, and is
an unqualified endorsement of Presi-
dent Hardy's administration. As
has already been stated in The Dis
patch, the committee refused to go
behind the board of trustees and
take up any further investigation of
the recent troubles at the Starkville
institution, and the students strike
and its attendant disruption live now
only in history. Things at the col
lege are progressing in a most salts
factory manner, and the State solons
are perfectly willing to let we'll
enough alone.
That part of the report
which refers to the A. and NJ.
College is published below, and a
synopsis of the recommendations re-
garding the Industrial Institute and
College and the University of Missis-
sippi is also given:
ITO the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi: Your Committee on
Universities and Colleges begs leave
~ ~nI0
tive to the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College:
We reached the Agricultural and
Mechanical College at noon Thurs
day, the 9th, and after watching TOO
boys marching to dinner in perfect
5 order, and getting our own dinners
at the hospital, the Committee went
Immediately to work. The president
was first invited to go over the pro-
posed college bill that is to be con
sidered at this session of the Legisla-
lature, in order that the committee
might examine the items in detail
The new mess hall was then in
spected, and when completed will be
modern and up-to-date in every part,
and will be ready for occupancg with
in the next ten days. The old chapel
was then thoroughly examined from
top to bottom, and it is the unani-
nous opinion of your committee that
a new building is needed at this time.
The building is not only considered
inadequate, but dangerous. We de-
sire to call the especial attention of
the Legislature to what the president
of the college has said on this sub
iect on page 63 of his biennial report,
and to what the appraising commit
tee had to say on page II of the same
report.
I'VE examined the different engin-
eering departments, the textile de-
partment, the dairy department and
chemical department. While we
found them in most excellent condi-
ton. and the professors and students
enthusiastic in their work. yet from
the representations made by the
heads of the different departments
it is evident that additional equip
ment and material must be provided
if these departments are to do their
best work along engineering and in
dustrial lines. We invite the care
ful consideration of the legislature
to this point.
a part of the committee visited
the barns and made a thorough inves-
tigation of the mule-breeding expert
ments, which is the most extensive
OF its kind ever undertaken on the
American continent. This part of
the committee found eyervthing in