The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-11-10
HEADS OF COLLEGES
IRATE over SECRET
STANDARD OF BOARD
Cooper Denounces Manner OF
Classification and Seerly Is
P~eacemakero

Des Moines, Ia, Nov. THE college
presidents of Iowa are one voice I'M
a protest against the decision of tiieii
state board of educational eXaminersi
to classify all of the colleges of the;
state upon a higher standardization
basis.
Yesterday afternoon at the meeting
OF the college presidents at n Vest
Des Moines high school, the discussioni
on this subject waxea long and warm.
When adjournment came the subject
had not been thrashed out to the sat-
fsfaction of both sides. To bring the
subject more directly before the meet
ing OF the college presidents this after
moor In the same place a committee, off,
which President Willis e. Parsons of
Parsons college at Fairfield, is chair.
man, was appointed to make recom-
~mendations for adjustment.
The New Standard.
These colleges are to be placed un-
der a new standard in January by de-
cision of the state board of educationalE
examiners. The college presidents dol
not object to the standard set for thet
colleges and the division. of the colleges,
into the three classes, but they do OBJ
ject to the length of time given themj
by the board to qualify for the new
standard requirements set by the
board. L
The meeting this afternoon will be-
frightened in interest by the fact that
President r. w. Cooper Of Upper Iowa
university is to give an address In
which he will denounce the action of
the board. President Cooper was the,
leader in the opposition faction yester-
day afternoon.
Seerley Pacificates.
President Homer n. Seerley of the
Iowa Teachers college at Cedar Falls
and member of the educational board,
attempted to pour Oil on the troubled
waters, but his oil caught fire. Presi-i
dent Seerley explained to the frate COLI
lege presidents thai the board was
working only TO improve the colleges
and to make it Impossible for lurid COL
lege secretaries to travel over the statet
securing students on impossible prom
Uses of educational advantages in GER
tain educational institutions. The list.
of colleges and their place in classifica-
ton is to be known only to the board,
says President Seerley, and not given
to the public to discredit any college.
The student body, on the other hand,
may protect itself by finding out from
the college standing OF any OF the edu-
cational institutions in the state.
Value of Rural Schools.
consolidated village and rural
schools bearing three-fourths of the
burden of formulating country life edu-
cation, are the greatest factors in the
SolopllSIijeI OF NIFlIe mDfdi1ty ana
high ideals OF everyday life in this
country" declared Assistant Secretary
Nv. NJ. Hays, of the department of agri.
culture, before the Iowa State Teach
ers' convention here today.
Continuing, Mr.. Hays said that as
the whole educational and moral struc-
ture of the country rested, finally on
the country's rural life, the develop
ment of practical education in rural
districts was the quickest and surest
means of raising general standards Of
intelligence, morally and competence in
the United States. In universal voca-
itional education, for adults as well as
for youth, he saw the means for great
est capacity of development.
Practical training in the vocations
the pupils expect to enter is coming
to be recognized as far more profitable
than general cultural education" he
said. CONSOLIDATION of rural schools
permits broader scope of work and
more social development, which we now
acknowledge as efficient in general edu-
cation. Cooperative associations, arts
ing from this idea, wax men to the
need of their fellow mem"
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