Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
PLANS SEVERAL IMPORTANT
REFORMS.
ATAMEs AND IOWA
TO BE ELIMINATED IN TIME
Similar Departments Finally to Be Con-
soIidated in One or the Other School
-Ames to Be Made Greater in Asri-
cuIture-Teachers Must Devote En-
tire Time to Duties.
Special to Times Republican.

NfHool ISttpius, AhdECll ..-Ilut the
state board of education will before
many months map out program that
VIII eliminate much of the duplication
which has resulted from the compete
tive Development of the state college
at Anes and the State University al
Iowa City is apparent Judging from the
statement of one member of the board
winch is in session in this city today
The members of the board believe that
much money can be saved the state
and the cause of education advanced
at the same time, by preventing fur
thef duplication and gradually elm
mating present duplication. Had the
state board of control been i'm exis-
tence a few years ago it is safe to say
that there would be but one engineer
ing school under state auspices, and
in other Ways would the states money
have been conserved
Ames to Be Greater in Agriculture.
The board is unit on the PROPOSE
ton to make the state college at Ames
an even greater agricultural school
than it is at present; to make it a
greater factor in the education of the
boys and girls who are to be the farm
ers and housewives of the state. 1t is
more than likely that even greater
stress will be laid upon the practical
side of college instruction than there
has been in the past
That the board will be more careful
in the, expenditure of the states money
donated for college and university pur-
poses, than We're the old boards of re-
gents, is apparent from the statement
made today by one member of the new
board. He declared that it had too often
been the habit, when appropriations
had been made, to use the full amount
of the appropriation for the building,
leaving no funds for furnishings or
equipment. He believed when the leg
islature made an appropriations, the
building should be completed and
equipped for the sum named in the APP
preparation.
Bigger Plans in View.
The visit of DIR. Pritchett of New
York, president of the Carnegie foun-
dation for the advancement of teach
ing, to the meeting of the state board
today, undoubtedly marks the begin
ming of a new era in state educational
circles. DR.. Pritchett. who is i'll
sympathy with the educa
tional board idea, gave the members of
the board 7n1Hry ideas with regard to
increasing the effectiveness of the
teaching force at the university and
state college. Practically the entire day
today Was spent in going over ques-
tons directly affecting the education
al development of the two institutions.
1t is understood that the board has in
10, ,,1a 1ncc r.aH
ical reforms, and that DR.. Pritchett's
IDEAS will assist materially in the car
lying out of these reforms. 1t is as
serted that some OF the men directly
with the state educational
will be required to devote
their entire time to the work for which
hey are paid by the state The board
las also found that there are Il number
Of teachers in the institutions whose
salaries are ridiculously small, and
eventually there will be q reimbursement
hat will reward merit. 1t is within
he range of possibility that a number
II changes in the personnel of the
force Will take place.
Athletics Due For Attention.
Tomorrow the board is expected to
levote considerable time to the discus
ion of the question of athletics. With
,ut contemplating any immediate rad
cal action, there will nevertheless be
| total lack of endorsement OF such an
athletic program as that
n which the state college baseball
cam is planning to participate. The
cams schedule is understood to con-
;ume practically the entire month of
Way. The members of the board be-
ieye such attention to intercollegiate
.thletics is totally unwarranted, and
hat it is unfair to the parents who
ellsl their boys to the school that the
,oys should be allowed to devote so
much time to really professional sport.
The members of the board believe ath-
etics are deserving of a large place
n the life of the state colleges, but
lot that athletics should be anything
more than incidental to the regular
chool work.