The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-24

Tug iin..o y psoprlety In urging ~
preparations sufficient to meet tbs !. y
dent needs of the institutions ~
entirely failed. and / now resor ~, y.
the last extremity, which is nuh,,,as
Nothing that have been able / !.
or to say has seemed to have ~
slightest influence, but has haar Y !
swered by pronounced reduction I
funds, even in the face of stead,lv Z
creasing numbers OF students M Il
has brought about conditions imno.
sible to meet and is gradually Kiln,
the college, which cannot live !,
reputable institution two years mo,..
unless the people will give to Il Il,
same support that other states !.
giving theirs.
Results Of Cutting.
The last General Assembly cut ~
every building asked, for, though i
knew perfectly well, for example, IN
classes in stock judging were Of ma.
cessity held out of doors or suspens.
ed entirely in bad weather becaus.
only one small judging room va,
available for several hundred SIN.
dents in seven separate classes. msnv
running in different sections. II not
only did this, but it denied the reores,
for an increase in maintenance funds
based on an attendance more than
double.
WHAT now has happened to the col
lege and its faculty under this polio,
of increasing demands and reduced
revenues?
First of all, a number Of our MOI,
excellent men, some OF whom have
been on the faculty for eight or ten
years, have gone to other institutions
at salaries $500 to $1,000 above what
we were paving or could possibly par
Vacancies OF this kind must be HlN
at the same or less money, xhia
means younger and cheaper men Viii
less experience and less teaching W.
er. A full half dozen of these raaa
cies have never been filed and canNSt
be filed for lack of funds. leaving ii
increasing work to be carried on By i
reduced body Of men. Until now We
have been able to meet practically all
outside requests for help, but the time
has come when we are compelled to
decline many calls just when th'
movement for agricultural bettermen
is under good Roadway and when tn
college could be of most assistant.
Instead OF aiding new departments
poultry, farm management, rural q
GEOLOGY and college extension to me,
the demands, as other institutions Al
doing, We have been able to do moi
ing of the kind denying to our ST
dents many lines OF valuable instru
ton given now in most of the neigl
boring states. Instead of adding ne
courses to keep up with the times, y
have been compelled to Swithdra
rome of the old ones, and unless II
lief comes this winter the next ca
alogue to be published in May, viii q
necessity withdraw a large humble
OF courses that have been offered fc
ten years. and also limit the atten'
ance of students for want of room an
instructors. Would 1t not be spe
tacle for Gods and men IL this stat
should limit the number whom it vi
receive into its college OF agriculture
Yet that is the question to be decide
this winter.
Comes From Illinois.
What state do you think this appel
comes from? Naturally the presuml
ton would be Oklahoma, one Of th
Dakotas. Idaho. Nevada, or some on
of the newer and poorer states. NJ
at all. this appeal, startling and humi
iating as 1t must be to every citize
who has the best interest of the stat
at heart, is from Dean Davenport, tn
head of the Agricultural College
the great state of Illinois, and notf
ing but the spur OF desperate nee
waI,1d Laya x.-r,.pu ~ o,,t ne him