New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
STATE UNIVERSITY.
 HOW IT PROGRESSES
Has Faults and Failures of De-
 moCraCy, Brief Review

Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.-The state university has alike the faults and failings, the virtues and accom- plishments, of democracy. It Is neither in conflict for competition with the endowed college, though in many ways their work is identical. More and more, however, 1t Is creating dis tinct fields of endeavor and thus en- larging to the many those opportuni- ties of higher education. which would otherwise be denied them.
 These are some of the conclusions reached in a report of the committee on statistics and standards of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The report in outlining the history, purpose, and functions of such educational institutions pays g. notable tribute to the accom- plishment and the part played in our national life by the state university.
 Educatior-A Business Asset.
 Tt matters not to the state univer- sity whether the boy and girl students hail from the town or country Archer Wall Douglas, of St. Louis, chairman of the committee points out in the report, "since it has but one central purpose regarding them, and that is to send forth, trained, intelli- gent citizens to serve the state whose servant it is. This 1t does without money and without price. It is al- ready an axiom that the existence of democracy depends upon the intelli- gence of it's citizens, but it is not so readily apparent to the belated per ceptton of much of the business world that intelligence and education are the greatest of all commercial assets. For they carry with them initiative in action, energy and perception in the development of resources, the ways of free spending, the genius of invention and efficiency, and in truth all the es- sentia1s of advancement and progress. An education which means these things needs to go further than mere rudiments and must give opportunity to the many. So 1t is that in these es- sentia1s that the state university is the last word in democratic educa- tion.''
 What Four Universities Enrolment
 Shows.
 xStudents Total Work Institution Enrolled ing Income Illinois ...... 1922 $2,S24,O5345 Minnesota =. 1892 3,O33,89133 Wisconsin =. 6765 3,09325464 Michigan .... 625S 2,2O2,S6O.38 Michigan Az.
 College 2O1O 676,632.47 *U. of M and
 M A. c. =. 826S 2779,492. xTotal attendance: Regular, summer and short course ..
 *Since each of the state universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois includes an agricultural department, comparison is offered to these univer- sites, with the U. of M and M. A. C. together.
 Being state institution, the univer- sity is always responsible to calls from the state for assistance of any nature. This according to the National Cham Der report, has been especially marked in Wisconsin where the trained mem- bers of the faculty of the State Uni- versity have greatly assisted in formu- lating much of that advanced legisla- ton affecting the relations of the state to public utilities, and to business in general, for which Wisconsin is SO we'll known. In many states, through the medium of university extension, there are special bureaus at eachN university
 
 with the state municipalities in rela- tion to all the various problems of | sanitation, social life, municipal con struction work, education and hygiene. Part Played by Co-education. Because of its democratic nature 1 the state university is almost invari- l ably and inevitably a co-educational l school" the report continues. ESQ., ! for many years it anticipated that awakened spirit in the modern world, and especially in our country, which the general scheme of things, which | she has been so long denied by anti l quated and reactionary thought. It seeks to make woman independent in 1 thought and action, so far circum- i stances and the limitations of sex per- init, and thus to fit her as an efficient ] and fitting companion and comrade | for man, rather than that mythical | impossible creature, who was the glory of the senti,nentality of the mid | Victorian period. The 'co-ed,' as she is generally known, has the opportuni- ty of practical test of comradeship during her four years sojourn at col lege, and the roll of marriage licenses in after years between classmates is the best answer to the spacious state ment that education gives womon a distaste for domestic life.
 AS woman's increasing participa- tion in economic and political life is l clearly one of the marked features of i coming years, it is evident that she l iS.o aI tn Cf de