The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-02-10


drank too much whiskey. Lincoln ask
ed for the brand Of the whiskey Grant
drank and said if he could find it he
would send barrel to every general
in the federal army. Mr.. Goodnight
said if G. r. Van Hise with his breadth
of purpose, his integrity, his high ideals
and his managerial skill is political
appointee, then let every university
draw political appointee fer it's presi-
dent and grow strong and great because
of it.
Politics There Of Course.
AS to politics in the university he
said both professors and students were,
like other American citizens, free to
form political affiliations; that there is
no political propaganda taught, despite
charges that socialism is instilled, but
that political theories are put before
the students in the political science
course, as the name Of the course indi-
Gates they must be.
! As to professors lobbying, he said
the last legislature passed resolution
to the effect that as the university en-
ployed experts that their services should
be asked when subjects of their expert
knowledge came before the legislature
and needed Qualification, and that the
faculty should feel free at all times to
respond to these requests from legisla-
tors for information.
AS to the charge of the faculty mem
bers serving on state commissions and
drawing two salaries, he said there had
been times when the experts in certain
lines in the university had accepted
commissions from the state and had re-
ceived part pay from the state and part
from the university; that this was a
saving to the state because had equally
well equipped experts been brought
from outside the state to serve on these
commissions, the expense to the state
would have been much greater.
Philip in Accord with University.
Governor Philip has set his sanction
upon this practice, Prof. Goodnight
said, by calling more university men to
act on commissions in the past year
than have ever been asked before in
the same period by governor.
AS to the charge of laxness in bust
i ness methods, he admitted that charge
may have been true in the dim and
distant past when the regents presented
s.
one lot, now a valuable piece or prop
erty, to musician for services at COM
mencement; when they gave away and
sold at low figures lands for which they
received but $4,000, between 1850 and
1887, and that these lands are now val
ued at $1,600,000. But present meth
DDS after careful examination by ex-
perts, including William H. Allen, here
tofore alluded to, are pronounced of
the best.
He said the charge Of great expense
for education should be tempered in
another way; that part Of that expense
is not for students as it includes the
upkeep of agricultural experimental
stations and the conduct of farmers
institutes, which are really state func-
lions and should not be. justly charge
able to the fund for education of stu
dents.
Capitol Costs More to Run.
He compared the expense Of the sixty
university buildings upkeep with that
of the capitol; the capitol has one third
the space of the sixty buildings; it cost
100000 as against $6,000,00O for the
sixty buildings and all their equipment;
lit costs one-half the amount to light
the entire sixty that it costs to light
the capitol.
Prof. Goodnight is unalterably OBJ
posed to the excess charge of 1924 for
tuition and 1924 for extras to non-resi-
dent students. He said snobbish Hi
nois' university took Wisconsin pupils
at the same cost as their own: aristo-
cratic Michigan charges but $40 extra.
He said it would merely mean that Wis
consin will lose her nonresident pupils,
that overhead and faculty expense
will go on the same and that means
loss to the state; that its present 1000
nonresident students spend on an aver
age $500 annually in the state; that
frequently they bring entire families
with them to spend here, and best of
all they bring cosmopolitanism by
bringing to Wisconsin ideals from other
states In Michigan he said one-half
the students are out-of-state people.
Thomas Lloyd Jones, state inspector
of high schools, followed with short
address.
The occasion was celebration of the
sixty-ffth anniversary of the founding
of the state institution.
i
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kimball, ST.,
Congress street, entertained Monday
night in honor of the Three Twins club.
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