The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-06-23
DISMISSAL OF
PROF. FRENCH
some of the Facts in the
Case from the University
Standpoint.

r,;ssaI Of Prof. H. T. French from
he state agricultural college, about
rbicb SO much has been said, and in
vb;ch most of the citizens through
an the state are more or less inter-
.sed there are some points which
have been brought out prominently by
Mr. French's own statements that are
worthy Of consideration in connection
with bis management of the agri-
cultural department Mr.. French is
quoted as having said in his recent
visit to Boise, that
The state of Idaho has no agri-
cultural college. There is lots of
froth, but there is no college, and one
should be built and the money utilized
for the purposes to which it was in
tended. | could not recommend that
my own son attend the agricultural
department., for the simple reason that
there is no college, no equipment, no
PREPARATION made for instruction and
no room for such instruction. Dur
ing the last year five agricultural
teachers had to use one room in
which to give instruction and the
funds intended for agricultural work
have been expended for nearly every
other conceivable purpose connected
with the institution except for agri-
cultural work. Out of $50, 900 re-
ceived from the government last year
for the agricultural college only
Sb73.75 went for instruction in agri-
culture, notwithstanding there were
thirty students receiving instruction"
Such statements seem most re-
markable, coming as they do from
the man who for the past eleven years
has been at the head of the agricultural
college and who without hestancy has
accepted good salary for the con-
ducting of such college, and " ho now
atthe expiration of his tenure of office,
throws as bomb into the public press
the announcement that the whole
thing is myth, and he has been re-
cevIng pay for something he never
dld, and knew all the time he was not
doing.
Regent E. S. Sweet, of Grange
vile, says the fire at the university
some two years ago worked deStruc-
uon that required time to restore, and
inconvenience naturally resulted, but
that the present $50, 900 agricultural
college was constructed as promptly
Sposslble and that Mr.. French him.
self had the planning and supervision
q the building. If it is in any way
oetectve or inconvenient he certainly
y responsible for it. Mr.. French also
requested that in the replacing of the
equipment destroyed by fire that the
expenditure be light that greater por-
uofsof the insurance money might be
put into the building, which was his
special hobby, and his suggestions were
complied with. This now furnishes
ne grounds for one of his principle
somplalnts, which is that of the
s,o, VOO insurance he received only
~ iuo tor equipment, which was in
accord with his own request.
! ihe college records show over
ifoi' french's sworn statement to the
gosernment, that instead of S673.75I
0elng the limit of expenditures for the
SaCning OF ariculture, S873.75 was
sapended ), from the Morrill, fund and
si'vVo :. from the state fund, making a
Total of S1873.75.
!, Mr. Sweet further says, that during
aie entire reign of Mr.. French not a
ang'e herd of animals that might be
saieG representative of any breed was
4 .s'seo on the college farm, nor was
aefe pure bred chicken, one of the
seA'eSt sources of revenue on farm,
,alsed on the place. In fact, there
vas not an experiment in stock rails
~ made, from the Angora goats,
J, aalcn were allowed to starve to death,
\ 4 'ne shorthorn dairy herd, of which
asle sa are today remaining a few in
sa s'or animals, but what was grand
u the matter of experiments in
T., 'Oek feeding, showing forth the best
seuS Tor fattening purposes, either