The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-24

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INTRODUCED TODAY EVANS
WOULD HELP PROSPECTOR
UNIVERSITY REPORTS

CAf1SON, Gu. 10. - III Inv US
sembly this morning the committee
on education reported a substitute
for the Booher bill repeating the law
regulating race tracks. The substi-
tute is a new anti-gambling bill, prac-
tically a copy of the Williams bill
that was killed last week.
Evans of Esmeralda introduced a
bill to encourage prospecting. 1t
provides that when the mining in
spector reports that a prospectof has
a good showing but is without funds
to develop it, the state may pay half
the cost of development within lin
itations and receive title to one-half
of the property.
The university investigating COM
mittee was this morning granted I'M
til March / to submit it's report.
Senator Campbell introduced a bill
making it illegal to sell butter or
ice cream manufactured from cream
that has not been pasteurized. The
Thatcher bill requiring all autos to
be equipped with DINNERS passed
the senate, and the Buol bill, re-
moving the bounty from coyotes, also
passed the senate.
The report of DR.. Samuel Capen
of the United States bureau of edu-
cation on his recent survey of the
Nevada university was released on
Saturday.
The report is quite voluminous
and deals with many of the Difficult
ties and embarrassments under
which the institution has recently
suffered. Among other things the
report says:
The committee judges that the
public is partly responsible for the
recent lack of harmony between the
university and it's constituency. Hav-
ing organized an expensive, compli-
Gated and delicate machine, the peo-
pie ought to place it in the hands of
competent representatives and then
support them Loyalty and confidently.
The people of the state, however,
appear not to have given the uni
versity officers the benefit of the
doubt. They have too frequently
chosen to place sinister interpreta-
ton on acts which probably were
performed in perfectly good faith. 4.
They have been distrustful and have
lent a ready ear to SANDER. The
committee concludes hat the II
nection of the control of the uni
versity with partisan politics is the
cause of the present difficulties of
the institution"
The report recommends an amend
ment to the constitution providing
for the appointment, instead of the
election, of the board of regents,
and suggests that the board be COM
posed of sever instead of five; that
the tenure of each should be eight
years instead of two and four years
as at present, and hat not more
than two of the seven be appointed
within any period of two years. ex-
cept in the event of a vacancy.
The drawback to public election
which overshadows all Others" says
the report, lis that the university is
itself drawn unavoidably into the
III Pol tAooh oiAtiSo
The report states that the require
ments for admission to regular
standing and requirements for bacca-
laureate degrees are orthodox and
that these requirements are consci-
%entiously enforced, and that even
! with respect to the special students
the standards of the university have
not been lowered, but have had
rather the reverse tendency.
In discussing the internal organi-
zation of the university, the report
states that it is we'll organized. 1t
also recommends that graduate
courses in mining be established and
expresses the belief that the Mackay
school of mines could be made to be
one of the leading inStitutiOnc of ire