Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
Hears Resolve in Favor of Bates and
University of Maine.

The committee on educatlon on
Thursday afternoon gave hearing
on the resolve giving the University
Of Maine one-fifth of a mill on the
valuation of the State for period OF
six wears for maintenance and an
equal amount for the same period for
building purposes. The principal speak
or was President Fellows. who said
that the total amount which would
be needed by the university for main
tenance this year would DC Sl6l,2i /.
Part of this would be received from
other sources. This sum amounted TO
SIS 093. leaving net amount of SS6,1II
" hich the State would have to pro-
vide. The last valuation Of the state
was SIS, 900 900 and on this fifth OF
a mill would produce $S5,G)o or $1,000
less than what was actually needed
for maintenance.
He objected to the statement which
someone mad made that it was an
eastern institution. 1t was a Maine
institution. 1t was created by the
laws of Name and the state was obllg-
ed to take care Of it.
The honor of the state demanded
that the university must either be sup
rorted by it or abandoned
Tie appropriation OF $4,000 Ill 1>9'
he said was greater in proportion
than u 800, 900 would be now. Tn
less better Facilities were provided for
the faculty to live it would he i'm
possible to increase the teaching force
and. there was reason to believe, some
Of those now engaged IN the work
would be lost He drew D dismal pc
tl,re of the conditions of Dwelling
houses. boarding houses in which thu
faculty and students at the University
of Maine had to live in. More dorm .
tories were needed and it was necos-
sary to erect small dwellings, tor the
use of the faculty. 1t was these
things which made It necessary to
have an assured income for period
of wears so that the trustees would
know what they are doing and what
they had to do with.
A new barn was needed, because
under existing conditions enough cows
could not be kept to meet the require
r1ents of the institution. Milk and
cream for butter and cheese making
was being purchased at points ~
miles distant and transported by eX-
press to the college for this purpose.
The committee on education gave a
hearing Thursday afternoon on the
resolve appropriating $4,000 fer Bates
College The first speaker was Sena-
tor Osgood. who went over the history
Of the institution pointing out that in
the past Il years there had been an
increase of nearly 263 per cent in its
attendance and that the present en-
rollment was 43S students. This rate
of increase had been surpassed by but
one educational institution in New
ENGLAND. He called attention to the
fact that in the past A years the
State had given the college but
10000
DIR. George C. Chase. president OF
the college, outlined the reasons why
Bates asked the appropriation, by
pointing out that they needed a num-
Der of new buildings. Their Symnasi-
UNI building was 40 years old and out
of date the chemical laboratory dedi-
Gated 70 years ago was Inadequate for
the demands made upon It. The libra
ry, too was now beginning &c. be
crowded and improvement must soon
be made.
Despite the fact that in Is years the
funds of the college had been in
creased from 100000 to s6ooovo there
| was last year deficit of $4,000 oI