The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-08
K. .. SAVING MONEY
Dean TempIin's Report Shows
Decrease of Sc a Year
Per Student.
BUT CLASSES ARE CROWDED
Chancellor Strong and Other Men,
bers Of Faculty Believe the Work
10 Being Injured.


The cost of educating student In
the college of liberal arts and
sciences in the University of Kansas
dropped So this year below the cost
OF last year. A report tie other day
by Dean Olin Templin OIL the college
showed that each student In the col
lege would cost the university ap!
proximately $126.60 for the year. The
college comprises more than half the
university enrolment of 1928. Ten
years ago there were ITO students In
the school Of law Of the university;
now there are 155 laws" The school
OF engineering had 400 students ten
vars ago and has $50 now. Medicine
had 1917 at the beginning of the de.
cade and has 1874 now.
Cutting of operating expenses
usually causes jubilation in most in
situations, but Dean Templin made
his report with look Of gloom and
the lines in Chancellor Strongs fore.
uCCIEll0u 90 ITO AOA0 H.
Simply means we are GROWING
more and more students into the
classes" said Dean Templin. In
fact, we're having to crowd many
classes to such an extent 1t Is injur-
ing the work. A teacher can teach
effectively only so many students.
Go beyond that point and you take on
evils of the lecture system with a
teacher talking to crowd without a
chance for personal supervision and
contact that is so necessary in
thorough educational work. But what
can you do about it? You have so
many students and so little money,
and the number of students growing
larger and larger year after year"
Dark Cell at Reformatory Abolished.
superintendent Herr Of the State
reformatory announced recently that
the dark cell" at that institution had
been abolished and its place will be
taken by the solitary confinement cell
A $4,000 Holdup.--A man entered
McDowell's jewelry store at Arkan'
sas City recently shortly before noon
held up the clerk and escaped with
$4,000 worth of diamonds after lock
ing the clerk in the vault,
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Boy Falls on ,Pitchfork. F
Herr, the 5-year-old son OF farmer
near Ogallah, was instantly killed the
other day when he fell from = straw
stack upon = pit,hfork.
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Plans for Christmas.---Uniform plan;
for community Christmas celebrations
are being prepared by Prof. W, A
McKeever, head Of the department Of
child welfare Of the University Of Kan
sas, and will be sent to schools and
civic clubs In all parts of the state
The department plans to make the
celebration statewide, having the ex
ercises In each town at twilight hour
on Christmas Day. The exercises
will include the singing Of appropriate
hymns. Bible readings and the decora-
lions Of community Christmas tree
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Pioneer X. U. Trustee pies.-C. L.
Edwards, organizer of the first school
In Lawrence. in 1856. is dead at the
sge Of 49, Mr.. Edwards was the first
elected superintendent Of public in.
struction in Douglas County, enter.
ing upon this office in 1859. He was
one Of the first trustees of the. insti,
tuition that later became the Univer.
sity OF Kansas.
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Cattle Plague In kansas.-The farm
OF John Schmidt "a farmer near Ties.
colt, and the Tescott stock yards are
under quarantine following the dis.
covery Of foot-and-mouth disease In a
herd OF fifty cattle bought in Kansas
City recently by Schmidt and shipped
to Tescott.
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Mines School Burned.-Fire which
originated in a restaurant destroyed
four frame buildings at Weir City and
for the second time tn q year the
Kansas State School OF Mines is left
without home. The burned build.
ings were located between two brick
buildings. The school of mines occu-
pied the upper floor Of one Of the
brick buildings which was badly dam
aged, 1t is said the school did not
save more than $500 worth OF equip
ment About year ago the building