University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-02
University Chat.

OnlOcTSlty N1QI.
1t should be matter of pride to the |
students that the University of Mis-
souri, does not go outside of the state
this season to play football game
The students of the University
should help carry Amendment No. II
because they owe debt Of gratitude
to the institution that provides 4 free
education for them.
This is time when a states great
ness and rank is mea ured to a great
extent by its educational institutions,
rather than by its population. Since
We have let our state fall back two
places in population, let us take a cOu-
| pie OF steps forward in education.
Columbia and Boone county voters
should support the Eleventh Amend
ment because the University is OF di-
rect material and intellectual value
to them. The early settlers in this
county realized this when they gavn
Sill 900 to secure the University.
The lost aViators, Post and Hawley,
have been found. They have estab-
lished new worlds record for con-
tinuous flight. But, after all, what
good does it do? AS sporting event,
breaking a worlds record is a great
performance, but the future of avia-
ton does not depend on balloons be-
| ing blown here and there by any
chance wind. 1t rather depends on
aeroplanes and dirigibes. These can
start for a fixed point with some ce.-
tainty of reaching it. The balloon
can not.
The Eleventh Amendment should
carry:
First. because the thing it asks for
is needed for ths successful carrying
on Of the work of atfording to young
men and young women of Missouri
higher education The old system
of support fcr the University has
proved Inadequate. Ii is an economic
faAure; a huctuating ard uncertain
provision OF support could not be 9th
crwise. The physical growth and eX.
pansion o! the University has not kent
. pace with demands made upon it; i
has not kept pace with its strong
moral significance in the community
Its intellectual equipment, made
strong in the beginning; has outgrown
ard outworn its material equipment
: Its halls and laboratories are crowded
, Its student enrolment has doubled
, with but slight increase in its faciii
ties.
Second, because of the needs the
University may be capable of meeting
in the state. 1t is the highest devel
i opment of the states educational sys
7 TEN. 1t is its products, trained mer
. and women. who are to fill position:
j, as teachers in every other educationa
work the state supports. 1t teaches
: directly or indirectly, the boys ant
S girls who are 10 be the states mel
= and women. 1t is giving to the stat,
! better farmers, better engineers, bst
, ter men and women in every profes
tsion. in every good work.
l. Third, because the whole spirit .
> those asking for the adontion of thi
/ amendment is honest and fair.
has never been proved that this is no
=, so. 1t is scarcely believed that it j
not so. Men who are working in tn
interests of education are in an nor
l. est work. The world believes that
o There is nothing about the work C
o education that would attract dis
= honest nan. 1t is an unselfsh worl
teaching others. II pays only in smai
proportion to othsr lines of work ds
! manding the same equipment. tn
+ same talent, the same tirelcss energy