University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-04

risen above the indifference OF ste
| Ceedng legislatures and Shown ten
Gency 10 grow and thrive despite the
handicap OF poverty.
Minnesota. Wisconsin and Illinois
have forced their universities to the
front in tne face OF all competitions
he first two with little more than
half MissCuris population. have at
tained positions numerically strong
and edu; a;iOnaliy meritCrious. Min
aesUta now shows its confidence in
Or. Hill by Offering him a chance to
90 what he would DO for Missouri ii
Missouri would let him. Minnesota
Il state with l,151, GOO population.
against Missouri's 3.lU6.o0o, has 1905
income is $1.266,oO as compared to
Missouri's 1884 students and $625. 900
income.
Impressed by the opportunity for
constructive work, DR.. Hill would
probably rather build for Missouri
than administer for Minnesota. The
earnest and enthusiastic support of
the state means more to DR.. Hill and
faculty members than higher salaries.
nuri0us Legislature to win an made
quate appropriation is no pleasant
prospect. Men who cOnseCrate their
lives to teaching are privileged to eN
pect encouragement in their unseliish
work
7 ne present case is S!mptonatic.
t brings the situation to the stage of
a crisis. Either the state university is
going ahead or it is going back. Dr..
matter Of liberal treatment by the
next general assembly than a matter
ii salary. What he would like to
know is whether Missouri is going to
build a university OF the first rank or
revert to the t! pc of al academy.
Gould anything be more absurd
than that Missouri's leading educa-
tioral institution should be raided for
talent whenever a rival university is
bush-league of professors? Or does ii
purpose getting into fast company and
playing for the pennant?"
From the St Louis Republic:
"Doctcr Hill and the University.
The longer the people of Missouri
contemplate the possibility of losirg
President Hill from the headship of
the state university the more anxious
they become that some way may be
found to retain him.
President Hill is a man of wide eX-
perience He was born in Nova SEQ
tia, took his A. B. degree in Halifax.
went to Ithaca. y. V, for a Cornell
Ph. d. spent two years in Heidelberg.
Berlin and Strassburg; taught psy-
chology in a Wisconsin normal school;
held chair for six years in the Uni
Columbia seven years ago and was
the first dean of the school of educa-
ton, which he organized. Going from
Columbia to Cornell he was induced.
less than two years ago, to return to
Missouri as president of its great pub
lie university.
From this sketch of his profes-
Sional career it Will be seen that his
general course, except for his term
at Cornell, has been soltnwesterly.
Knowing the temper of many sections
of America and the culture of many
seats of learning, he has that freedom
from both academic and provincial
prejudice SO important to one en-
gagged in the task of building a new
university in new commonwealth
He cannot baqueath his special knowl-
edge of the educational problems of
lhis state to anyone else; we desire
TO have him stay and use it.
The fact has been advertised to in
these columns that the things which
tend to make Doctor Hill desire to re-
iinqush his task are not at Columbia;
they center at Jefferson City. The
are Legislators whose ideas OF ecoao.n.
re narrow and asQuint.
Doctor Hill should be made to real
ize that the policy followed by the last
legislature does net represent the sen
tilent OF the paGple OF the state in
the matter of expenditures for higher
education. 1t sGuarel! mis:nterpreted
public opinion. 1t IS hignly improh-
able that such reactionary course
will be followed again. Should Doctor
Hill be lost to us we may at least have
the satisfaction of feeling sure that
an awakening VIII result which will
render such misfortune from such
cause impossible fer all future
time"
LESS MONEY TO THE M. u.