The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-22

vanced degrees were cut OH 1rom du-
yanred and theoretical work to such
an extent that their training could not
have been useful in the great advance
/ in agriculture which is now taking
place, these men would necessarily
have been excluded from large part
of the work of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and of the
work of the Experiment Station, and
all of the other important industrial
and agricultural work, because all of
this calls for advanced work along the
lines of the various sciences.
Again Mr.. Moores is wide of the
facts when he states, "The State Col
lege has many more buildings than
the University" Prior to the last two
buildings in process of erection at the
State College, the University had ex-
pended outside of all buildings re-
ceived from the A. Y. p. fair, just
double the amount of money that was
given for buildings at the State Col
lege.
Mr.. Moores also declares, at cost
the state 500 per annum more to In =.
struct these students lat the State
College, per capita" Mr.. Moores
could easily have known that there
was an error of more than 500 per
capita in the report of the experts"
working for the commission. This
was one of more than 900 errors in
their report, nearly all Of which were
against the State College. In figur-
ing the cost of students at the UNI
versity, for example, they figured 800
cadets the first semester and 600 ca
diets the second semester, as taught
by school students at S125-a wonder
full economy. The cadets at the State
College were not counted in at all.
PHYSICAL culture students likewise
we're counted in by the experts at the
University but were not figured at the
State College at all. In figuring the
cost for the year 1914-1915 of the STU
dents at the State College they charg
ed in $4,000 for paving the street in
Pullman north of the college campus,
altho the street would probably last
for twenty-five years, and was no pro-
per cost of the students for that year.
They charged in a long tunnel more
than 100 feet in length from the rail-
way at the foot of the hill to the heat
ing plant at the top, tho it will last
more than 100 years. They charged
to the expenses for students of that
one year a poultry plant and other
permanent improvements, and similar
errors adorn nearly every page of
that ridiculous and untrustworthy re-
port. Mr.. Moores had ample oppor-
tunity to learn the facts in the case
and that the report was absolutely
Enthusiastically, and that its estimate
of per capita student expense was not
correct.
The article by Mr.. Moores further
states, "The bill takes away from
Washington State College the courses
in Chemical Engineering, course in
Architecture, and course in Forest
ry," and leaves the impression that
the sole purpose and effect of the bill
was to eliminate duplication in those
courses at the two institutions. Such
impression is false one, however, in
that bill dealing merely with those
three courses would have been very
different from House Bill No. Is.
House Bill Is, in fact was a body blow
at the most vital principles involved
in the curriculum of the State College
and was a. violation Of the contract
made with the United States when
the gifts of land and money were re-
ceived for the State College. 1t would
have essentially changed the defini-
ton of functions, services and scope
of the State College as found in Bal
fingers Code, and in so doing would
have involved far more courses than
realization of that fact by those in
terested in the State College accounts
for their opposition to the bill intro
.duced by Zednick.
So far as the question Of architecture
and forestry is concerned this may be
said: The place where architecture
has usually been taught has been in
the land grant colleges. Few, if any,
universities until recent years taught
architecture unless those universities
were at the same time the land grant
colleges of the respective states; as,
for example, the University of Illinois,
and Cornell University. Architecture
is plainly one of the mechanic arts,
and is in harmony with all the other
lines of engineering and technology,
which were made of the special func-
tions of the State College. 1t was
not taught in this state until 1911,
when it was introduced at the State
College. Four years later it was de-
veloped at the University. One of
the prime objects in establishing it at
the State College was that thru that
department the State College might do
its own architectural work without
added cost. Mr.. Moores says these
courses are very expensive courses,
which does not happen to be true. AS
q matter of fact, figuring the ordinary
architects fees which would have been
paid in the ordinary course Of service
for the buildings built at the State
College since that department was es-
tablished the College would have paid
out more money for those fees than it
has paid for the head of that depart
ment in all these years. In other words
it was real economy. In addition
to that specialist in architecture, the
State College has had large classes in
rural architecture and in interior ar
chitecture for classes in home eco
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