Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-15
LEGISLATURE WAS
ENTERTAINED
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Board Favored Pearson.
James -. Weaver, Jr., made these
points:
n Students in university engineering
at Ames are less than nine years ago
while at Iowa City they have steadily
| increased, a 60 per cent increase the
past year despite that there is threat
of discontinuance At Ames the en-.
rollment in college engineering the
Ipast six years has been 704, 6S1, $50,
$50, $50 and 495 At Iowa City the
enrolment for five years has been
0, 16, "a, 81 and 90.
The principle of the board of educa-
ton is right, to have some thing to
stand between the institutions and the
Legislature: but Mr.. Whipple opposed
small salaried board because he
feared politicians might get control,
and he said no power, judicial or legis-
lative, should be given the finance
committee.
President Pearson wrote to Presi-
dent Trewin declaring that he would
not accept appointment as president
unless it was determined that an engi-
neering school was to be maintained
at Ames; and the board took hasty
action on the subject and notified him
that the department would be retain
ed, after which Pearson accepted.
President Boyd of the finance CON-
mittee suppressed parts of important
letters that should have gone into the
records, and resolution passed in
July was not at that time spread upon
the records of the board. II charge
President Boyd with the mutilation Of
"a public document with the intent to
deceive the legislature, the governor
and the people of the state"
The presidents Of the colleges were
not consulted as to the plan for CO.
ordination, and this is an outrage.
Misrepresentation were made in
the letter to the press that was pre-
pared by the finance committee and
given out at the time of the announce
ment of the decision Of the board as
to the changes.
Only parts of the letters received
in regard to the plans from educators
were ever given to the public and these
changes were important. ~
a Prof. Stanton refused entrance at
Ames to a boy graduate Of a city high
school who wanted to enter the two
year course, stating that it was ex-
clusively for the boys from the rural
districts who had not had the high
school training and it was undesirable
to mix the two classes.
The board has virtually said that !
the girls have to go to university |
and get the college education so IS to !
learn how to cook; but as for the boys
studying engineering, they can get i
along very we'll at an institution with
out this.
The board of education has been |
costly; it has cost the past two years
$4,000, and the reports shows that
members have travelled $4,000 miles.
Better use some of the money in help
ing the colleges.
! TIL proposal to send the college stu
dents from Cedar Falls to Iowa City is |
without merit. Out of 1890 who grad |
uated at Cedar Falls the past five
years only 40 had taken the college
degrees; the talk of sending them to
the university is a mere sop to u.s."
The board of education is going
ahead to force their plan; they have
boosted they are going to bull it
through; now don't you let them do it;
don't let them injure the colleges in
this way, but pass this resolution and
compel them to stop.
If the order of the board stands