The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-01-27
TUESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1914
SUGGESTIONS FOR A PROGRAM
NOT by REQUEST"

Simultaneous with his appointment
as president. Mr.. Brannon doubtless
began to receive and will continue in
definitely to receive that free and I'M
solicited advice with which we are all
so generous in regard to any business
quite foreign to our own. Not to be
left entirely out of the procession of
wiseacres now forming, we have pre-
pared a full and complete program
for the new president That our sug-
gestions will probably not be read and
that they will certainly not be needed
only buoys us up. 1t relieves us of the
responsibility attaching to power and
makes of the undertaking pleasant
and diverting exercise in rhetoric.
According to the catalogue, the uni
versity organization is divided into six
parts: the college of letters and
sciences; the college of agriculture;
the experiment station; the college of
engineering; the college of law, and
the summer session. Now each of these
divisions is as much a part of the uni
versity as any other. The exact degree
of Importance of any one of them
would be difficult to determine, but the
necessity of adequate attention to and
careful supervision of every one of
them is indubitable. AS we see it, the |
well-being of the university as great |
state institution, has long suffered by |
an over-emphasis upon some one or
other of the colleges to the neglect and !
detriment of some of the others. This
over-emphasis takes the form of dis
proportionate publicity and dispropor
Tomato financial support. Inequalities
in publicity rise in part from the diff
ferences in temperament of the men
who are at the heads of departments;
in part from the fact that some kinds
of work are Shower than other kinds,
and in part from the greater public
demand constantly shifting) for some
kinds of work.
Inequalities in the financial support 9
given to the various colleges and to
the various departments within the col
leges depend partly upon the amount
supplied by the governments funds;
partly upon the amount received from :
the state legislature, and, after the /:
funds are available, partly upon the
basis on which distribution is made.
That basis is too often unfair and
too often shows warped Judgment. The :
of money available for any one
department seems TO depend largely on
The particular turn of mind of the pres
dent, upon the personal preferences OF
the board of regents, or upon the talk
ng powers of the professor who hap
1ens temporarily to have TIE ear of
he board.
Now what is the result of this unjust
discrimination 1t is inevitable neglect
If some departments quite as impor-
ant as those more favored and of men
lutte as capable as those whose sal
ries and titles jump every June.
money for new equipment seems al
Ways to be on hand when some persons -
want it, Every request is granted, FL
very need, whether imagined or real,
applied. Other fine men plod along
vithout adequate compensation or
luipment Departments should not be
or starved out because F(
)me business man or other down town
erson does not happen to take much
.ock in that sort of thing"
We hope that our new president will =
ave that vision which is broad enough LC
include impartially all parts of our
diversity; and that wide interest
hich will compel his careful attention =
those departments now kept obscure W.
I'd poor We shall never have great /
diversity until every college has a l
ir chance to live and to grow strong.