The Dickinson press., 1917-01-06
REGENTS URGE
Big SUN FOR
new NORMAL
DICKINSON SCHOOL TO GET
HIGHEST AMOUNT OF THE
APPROPRIATION a
Final Budget Will Exceed $500, 1000,
Cut From Nearly Quarter
of a Million.

The largest appropriation asked for
by the state board Of regents for any
educational institution is $250,000 for
the new Dickinson Normal. This was
the original amount asked for by the
Minot. Normal and it is expected that
the needs of the new school will be
about the same as for the Minot in
shtution for the first year or two or
until the buildings are completed.
During the next ten years it will re-
quire about $5O0,000 to put up the
buildings required by law. ~.
The requests by the heads Of the
eight educational institutions. under
the direction of the state board of
regents for new buildings, improve
ments and repairs, remodeling and
equipment for the coming biennium
reached a grand total of 81 ,223, 900.
These items may be recommended
by the state board Of regents to the
budget committee at about 1881 900.
This 1881 900 can be still further di-
vided to provide that about 100000
become available in 1917-1918 and
$431 900 in 1918-1919.
The unusual demands by the insti-
tutional heads on the legislature for
new buildings and other matters of
that character are due to the fact that
only very small appropriations have
been made for building purposes at
any of the educational institutions
during the last six or eight years.
This was, in turn, due to the use Of
the veto power by Governor Burke
and the economical methods practiced
by the last three legislative bodies,
and also to the further fact that the
Needs Of the charitable and penal in
stitutions during that period seemed
more imperative than those of the
educational institutions. -s.
The conditions at the institutions
under the state board of control have
been relieved to such an extent dur
ing the past six years that it now
seems possible for the legislature to
grant some of the requests made by
the educational institutions. ~
The original requests at the Uni
versity provided for $152,000 in new
buildings.
The Agricultural Colleg asks. for
$193 900 for new buildings.
President Mcfarland of the Valley
City Normal requests $4,000 for new
buildings, $4,000 for improvements
and repairs, and $4,000 for equipment.
At the state normal school at May
vile, President Hillyer requests that
a new dormitory be constructed at
a cost Of $4,000, improvements and
remodeling Of old buildings $500,
equipment $500. The situation at
Mayville is peculiar. In the face of
these $4,000 requests, the state board
of regents finds that an appropriation
- can 00n 1,xr tho cI f11ro on1 nor.
mission to use accumulated funds will
building, but for all the remodeling
ance for the next two years.
dent Crane earnestly requests $51, 700
of the building, $4,000 for the audi
torium and $4,000 for the barn. In
improvements and repairs he asks for
At the state normal : industrial
school at Glendale the demands of
President Black were exceptionally
modest. He wants $4,000 for new
model school, $1,000 for improvement
and repairs and ST 900 for equipment.
President Smith of the state school
OI SCleuCS dI w dLPStoA uoSo NV e'oN
for any new buildings, but he wants
$4,000 for improvements, remodeling
and repairs. Of this amount $4,000
is requested for remodeling the old
building. This, early residents Of the
state will recall, was purchased from
the old Red River Valley university of
structed more than quarter of CEN
tury ago and in addition to the re-
construction required for classroom
convenience, the building needs a
great deal Of other repairs and i'm
provements.
From Forestry to Agriculture
AT the state school Of forestry. in
Bottineau, where the institution has
Z been changed largely from a school OF
forestry, for which there appeared to
be no place in the educational system
Of North Dakota, to an agricultural
3 high school, President Smith makes
numerous requests along new building
lines. He asks for a dormitory to cost
+ $4,000, a presidents residence to cost
$500, a new heating plant at $500,
shops at $40, 900, and other construc-
tion work $4,000, making a total OF
1872, 600 for new buildings. For i'm
provements and repairs $1,000 is ask
4 ed and $4,000 for equipment. Until
the success Of the new agricultural
Il high school plan is thoroughly dem
onstrated the board Of regents is ssun-
likely to recommend large appropria-
tions for new buildings. 9is5 s5sf
OF all the buildings asked for By
I the various institutions the three most
imperative needs appear to the stats
board Of regents to be the completion
ST the west wing Of the normal school
4 at Minot, provision for new chem.
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