The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-29

~ ~ NJ 'iS'oie. ne SCHOOL OF Mines
the university and the A. and NJ. col
lege might we'll be one institution as
they are in Minnesota.
don't know how many normal schools
you need; | should think six would be
too many. Iowa has only FIVE. and
think at least one of them is unneces
Isary.
With your splendid public school
System; with high schools doing full
high school work, ! do not see any
Ineed for the two university prepara.
tory schools. They are apparently the
Occasion of useless expense"
From Yale President.
President Hadley of Yale university
Writes:
4 am convinced that six norms /
schools is too many. Two appears p
be quite enough. The elimination of
the University Preparatory schools is
Iwise and economical if it means that
you have high schools that can give
lreally iirst-rate university preparation
in mathematics and foreign languages.
You are right in centralizing
the agricultural instruction. y
You seem to be clearly right in dis
continuing the School of Mines as an
independent institution and combining
it with the university. A great deal of
the theoretical instruction preparatory
for mining is exactly what is needed
in a university and the attempt to
lgive this in two places instead of one
means unnecessary duplication"
From Starr ,rdon.
David Starr Jordon, of the Leland
Stamford university writes:
THE movement to combine the
schools to which you refer is thor.
Ioughly sound. To scatter state funds
among all these schools is to condemn
the whole system to mediocrity. Two
normal schools would be quite ade-
|quate for your state Indiana has but
|one and that is one of the best in the
country.
THE School Of Mines should be
joined to the State University. It is i'm.
possible to teaching mining without
Thorough knowledge of physics, chem
istry and other sciences, and this
makes it a great economy to bring all
this teaching together. /" u
For the future welfare of Oklahoma
| sincerely hope that you will be able
TO have your people realize that |
strength in the higher technical |
branches is attainable only through !
condensation. Your high
school system should make university
schools unnecessary and !
your state is so compact that two nor
NAL schools ought to serve every pur-
pose. In this state with six
normal schools there are scarcely any
men in attendance in any of them. In
California there is partial but poor
excuse Of great distance"
lowan's Expression.
John S. Bowman, president OF the h
Iowa university, writes:
Without any qualification whatever.
endorse the proposal to curtail the
1umber of state schools in thes way
Tou suggest. The welfare of the state
Is whole is far more important than ID
he welfare of a group of particular
Institutions. As soon as this point of i
lew is made clear to the citizens of j
he state ] believe there will be not 1
me shred of argument left which will i
Justify the existing conditions g
Edgar II. Smith, OF the University
t Pennsylvania, writes:
Il think it would be splendid for you
D consolidate and eliminate some of y
he many schools you have in the state s
t Oklahoma. Why not have the Col II,
ege of Agriculture become depart
lent of the university, just as the t,
ehool of Mines is to become a depart N
lent of the same instruction? | am
lad that you propose to cut down the
ormal schools to two" Tn
C. A. DunaWay's Views.
! have no .hesitancy in saying that
le proposed bill to curtail the num- =
er of state schools in Oklahoma is =
wise. When
ate has such a splendid school sys- q
IN as is found in Oklahoma, with u
Ugh schools readily accessible, the D
ork of higher education should be u
sntralized as much as possible. u u
ITO deal with the matter a little IL
ore specifically-two normal schools, ~
addition to a department of educa- !
on in the university, should fully - !,
eet the needs of the people of Okla. - !,
,ma. Then the university prepara- -
ry schools are not needed where -
ere is a gOOd high cch0oI evctau1 VI