The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-06

sential unit, and that an impairment
of the efficiency of any part means
the impairment of the school system;
that there must be no backward step
in the standard Of maintenance of our
educational institutions; that we con-
tend that the money appropriated for
education by state, county or city,
should not be considered as an ex-
pense, but as an investment that will
return to the state in material and
moral Improvement many times its
cost, and that we deplore any attempt
to treat the money appropriated for
the support of our educational institu-
lions as part of the running expenses
of the state.
THAT the school taxes of the state
are not equally distributed, in many
cases allowing district schools to sup
port nine months school with the
same rate of taxation that allows 9TH
er districts to have a four or five
months term; that we favor more
equitable distribution of school taxes
either by state levy, a county levy,
or a com bination of both state and
county, that will provide equal school
privileges for all the children of the
state.
THAT the fact that the state of Kan
sas has invested in property for educa-
tional purposes the sum of six million
dollars that she invests in her schools
annually three million dollars, employs
twelve thousand teachers who have the
educational training of her half million
children, demands and challenges the
most serious consideration of her citi-
zens, and should command the best
thought of her statesmen. That the
teachers of the state resent the long
continued policy Of the legislature to
place measures vital to the successful
and efficient administration of this
vast business enterprise at the foot of
the calendar where they receive hasty
or no consideration.
ITO meet the growing demand for
more efficient instruction, and to make
teaching a more desirable occupation,
we recommend that the minimum
preparation required of teachers shall
be a four years high school course, or
its equivalent and that this require
ment be accompanied by a correspond
ing increase in teachers salaries.
THAT we request the president of the
association to appoint q commission to
prepare recommendations relative to
the enactment of needed school -legisla-
ton. and to prepare such Recommended
tions for presentation to the next legis-
lature; and we further recommend that
sum, not to exceed $3.50, be provided
from the funds of the association for
carrying out the expense of this COM
mission. D. M. BROWN,
Chairman"
During the afternoon yesterday de-
partment and round table meetings
were held in various places through
out Ln6 CITY. Inc city WdTU
met and decided to hold at the meet
ing next year a round table discussion.
The principals organized and chose
the following as officers President o.
P. M. McClintock, Topeka; j. o. Fer
guson Independence, vice president;
Miss Minnie STICKY, Wichita, secre-
| tary. .-z,.~
Later in the afternoon there were
| college reunions and banquets. At the
Masonic hall the alumni of the State
| ~
The X. q. Banquet.
College days brought back in recur-
rent association of the crimson and
| blue, exemplified in spirit and song,
and set to the merry tinkling notes Of
| harmonious good cheer, marked the
annual reception given by the Uni
versity of Kansas faculty to its alumni
held last night in the parlors Of the
| First Baptist church.
With the song of college days fresh
| upon their lips: fond memory OF
alma mater on the hill brought back
| in retrospection; halcyon moments
| dragged from oblivious depths into
which they have been cast as a re-
suit of business and intellectual
| cares; $50 men and women graduates
| of the glorious old K. S. U. paid trib-
ute and homage to her name.
| Loyalty to the university, her aims
and her aspirations, could not have
been brought out with more heartfelt
effect chan by the resounding chorus
with it's merry:
"Rock-chalk; jay-hawk; K. u,
| Rock-chalk; jay-hawk, K. u,
| Rock-chalk; jayhawk. X. U,
| Rock chalk; jay-hawk. K. U.-u-u-u-u
l--u-u-lI-u
About 20 members of the present fac
ulty had charge of the affair, the re-
r'ainder of those present being that part
of the ranks who have gone forth ir
| the business and professional world
there to accomplish that which their
alma mater has stood for-the highest
Ideals, and the most sincere realism Of
life, and it's usefulness.
| Chancellor Frank Strong presided
and in a few words. following the ban
Quet, brought out the fact that the Un
liversity of Kansas has forged rapidly
to the front during the past few years
until today she has been admitted to tbs
Association of American universities. ar
organization composed of % of the fore
most like institutions on the continent
Apropos to a discussion which has
lately been brought before the public
that Of the per capita cost of college ed
location, the speaker brought out thai
Kansas If not the lowest in cost, is mex
to the lowest With a per capita averag-
ing $3.50 this year against $134 last year
THE cost at K. U. is not too high, aS
has been asserted, but the Other
hand is too low. With advanced cost
Of living, higher salaries to be paid fol
the best trained instructors, and better
training to be had, an increase rather
than a decrease in per capita cost
should be expected
Continuing, the speaker voiced the
statement that the east with it's col.
leges of distinction has not the futur,
that has the institutions of the west
This is the land of intellectual ant
educational PROMISE he said. In con
clusion he introduced Professor r. Z,
Price. head of the newly created uni
versity extension bureau, who said il
part as follows;
I'VE want to bring the Kansas uni
versity into the closest touch with the
citizens of the state and to make thi
possible the university extension de
partment was created Much is con
templated and will be put into execu
ton with as much expedition as posi-
, BILE. 1t is the plan to introduce fou
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