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and Castleton; and develop training
courses in secondary schools to train
teachers for elementary schools and earlier
years of junior high school.
The report deals very fully with eondi-
tions at the University of Vermont, about
&C pages being devoted to a careful re
view of the founding and history of the
institution in determining whether it is a
public or private institution.
After considering the brief submitted
by the university, the commission con-
cludes that Ira Allen was the perfeient
founder of the institution and not the
state 1t finds a parallel IN the Dart
mouth case, in which that corporation
was held by Chief Justice Marshall to be
a private eleemosynary institution
It finds that the kings prerogative'
doctrine, taken from English iurispru-
dence and invoked in the brief of the
university is not recognized IN this coun-
try and finds support for this conclusion
in the fact that during the war of 1912
arms were stored in the university build
ing and soldiers quartered therein, the
corporation settling directly with the ma
tional government for rental thereof
1t also cites the case of President John
Wheeler, who claimed exemption from taxa
ton because that right was originally con-
ferred by the state and could not be re-
volled for the reason that the university
was a private corporation. The St.
| Johnsbury academy cases are also cited.
| As to the misuse of federal appropria-
tions. the commission finds that the APP
| Dropriations received under the first Nor
rill act CSG2) for agricultural experiment
stations have not been improperly ex-
pended. but that under the acts of CON
gress of 1890 and 1907, "a disproportion-
ately small part thereof" has been zap
piled to agriculture, Nermont's predomi-
mating industry OF life.
It also finds that the College of Medi-
cine in the University of Vermont does
not perform a public service sufficient to
| warrant its receiving a state appropria-
ton. calling attention to the entering
class of Is in 1913, of which only eight
were from Vermont.
The commission lays great stress on
! Vermont as an agricultural rather than
am industrial state and quotes literally
from United States census reports, which
show that although there are more per
sons engaged in manufacturing, more CAPT
tai is invested in farms and more value is
added to products by agriculture than by
other manufacturing. 1t deplores the ten
dencv of the schools to draw children
away from the farm.
1t reiterates that sufficient stress Is not
placed in our schools on the needs of the
pupil as member of society but rather
az a future student in some institution Of
advanced learning and deplores the ten
Idoncv toward cultural education alone
Admitting some of the evils of the con
solidated rural school, the report urge
that they will tend to 'crystallize rura
society about the consolidated school a
a center as well as tend toward greater
efficiency
Emphasis is placed on the Carnegi,
Foundations plan for a six-and-siX course
Il sIx-year coures in the elementary school
and six-year course in the high school
thus bringing the pupils into the JUNO
high school at the ages Of II to 10, rattle
than marking time in the 7th and ST.
grades as is the case with the eight-and
ION, system. 1t is held that this will in
duce many pupils to. enter high school
VINO would drop ont at the end of the ele
mertary school period under the presen
system. and more naturally divides TIA
: courses according to the pupils adde's
cenoe.
, The commission admits that the pre-
i |posed system Will cost more than at pres
ent, but quotes the constitution as eT
joining on the freemen the maintenance
of competent number of schools whic
ought to be maintained fo
h the convenient instruction of youth.
This duty, it declares. is not being pc
formed at present, although Vermont
o spending more for its higher institution
d of learning according to its property va
d uation than any other state in New En-,
# land; the proportion being II times /;
u much as Maine. three times as much {
q Connecticut, four times as much as Ne
r Hampshire, eight times as much as Mass
f. chusetts, nine times as much as Rhoc
Island and "a times as much as Ne
:, York
- The recommendations are emphatic
, respect to suspending state appropri
tons to the University of Vermont, Mi
dlehury and Norwich, save for specif
purposes, until the public schools a.
brought up to standard One efficiel
agricultural school at Randolph is recor
mended rather than partly efficient sehoo
elsewhere. School to teach manual trai
ing, carpentry, masonry and blacksmit
ing in addition to agriculture.
In recommending teachers trainil
courses in the secondary schools the eor
mission points to 80 years of failure"
4 the normal SCHOOLS. III also recOmmen
higher salaries for teachers and tenure
] position during good behavior 1t do
] not recommend central teachers trai
| ing school at present, but favors col
/ pulsory unionization of schools, state $
| pervison by trained assistants and
| state board of education composed of la
1 men, which shall name a trained comm
Il sioner and have plenary administrati
4 powers.
|. In determining that the state agric,
Il tural college has failed to perform
Il duties and obligations as to agricultul
Il the commission notes that the truste
4 have already in contemplation a strengt
II ening Of its agricultural work and reco
II mends such aid as may be necessary
ii equip the University of Vermont a
agricultural college for training teache
in agriculture on condition that radio
change of policy is made
- Too much miltarism'' is the verdict