Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-07-09
LEGISLATORS VISIT
STATE COLLEGE
Educational Commission Makes Pre-.
liminary Survey of State Educa-
tional Institutions

Senators w. J. Sutton, Il. II. Bon
ner and A. H. linus, and Representa-
tiyes Charles Tim blin, Victor zednick
and Tom Brown, comprising the COM
mission on educational survey of the
state OF Washington, appointed by
Governor Lister during the last SEES
sion of the legislature to make
comprehensive survey of educational
institutions in the state, visited Pull
man Wednesday, when they investi-
gated the organization and work of
the State College as COMPREHENSIVE
as time would permit. The commit
tee is now touring the state and visit
ing all the institutions of learning to
secure data upon which to base
plans for an extended survey of each
institution, as well as the state pub
lie school system, both elementary
and secondary. The final survey is
intended to determine the line along
which each separate institution
should develop to best serve the in
tereSts of the state. The appoint
ment of the committee came as
direct outgrowth of claims made by
western Washington citizens that the
State College is encroaching unwar-
rantedly upon the curriculum of the
State University, and the committee
United States commissioner of edu-
cation, who has already made his
survey and issued his preliminary
report The report of the state
commission, together with recon-
mendations to the governor, will be
made on or prior to April 80, 1915,
and will be printed and copies sent
to each mem Der of the state legls-
lature, SO that they may acquaint
themselves with the report and be
in a position to vote intelligently
when the question of the state edu-
cational system is considered by the
Legislature.
The committee Is DESTROYS of as
pertaining the views of the citizens
of the state upon the educational
question, and any suggestions made
to them will receive consideration.
In this connection Senator w. j.
Sutton of Cheney, chairman of the
committee, said:
I'VE want to know what the peo-
pie of Washington want their
schools to be, and it is better that
the people should have chance now
when we are beginning our work TO
give suggestions and aid us with
their advice than that this should be
withheld until after the survey has
been made and outlines for future
development have been completed.
This survey is to be taken on
broad lines. The aid of the United
States bureau of education has been
enlisted, and we will have num-
Der of educators of national reputa-
ton to give advice on different mat
ters.
There has been some criticism of
the State College and University on
the ground that they duplicate each
others work in some departments.
Some states nave these two institu-
lions combined in one. But it Is not
as easy a matter as come think
merely to transplant course from
one institution to another. Do we
want the State College to develop
in the future more extensively along
agricultural lines, or do we want 1t
to continue as 1t has been doing?
The relation of the higher institu-
lions to the public school system OF
the state will have to be studied.
The commission wants to be advised
of the wishes of the people of this
state regarding what kind of institu-
tions they desire We will also ask
the advice of chambers of COM
merce. We want to know what or
ganized labor thinks, what the farm
orpa niZafions desire I"