The Sentinel=record., 1917-02-01
AGGIE SCHOOL
 MILDLY CENSURED
COMMITTEE MAKING INVESTIGA. TON FINDS LITTLE IN tNSTl
 TUITION TO COMMEND.
ln July 1916, the Enrollment at the RUsseIiville Institute Had Dropped to Forty-APpropriation of S75.OOO Is Recommended.

Li1e Rock Jan al The joint legis lauve committee that investigated the State Agricultural School at Russell. vile last week apparently was not highly pleased with conditions found there, judging from the report submit ter this morning 10 the senate Poor attendance is pointed out statements of students that they do as they please are made and general tone of anything but optimism is To be found in the report
 4 copy, signed by Senators Hous- ton Emory, chairman. Rue Porter. G w. Bell and Claude A. Rankin, show in the recommendations of the com mittee for appropriations for the next biennial period, is as follows
 "We your joint committee appoint ed to visit the asricultural school at Russellyille beg leave to repor, that we did visit said school. and on Thursday, January 25, and found the following conditions existing. First The buildings and grounds in faily good condition.
 Second The enrolment was one hundred and eighty.
 Third The interest in the school did not appear to be what we thought if should be.
 Fourth The state has in it's em- ploy here l3 teachers, representing an expenditure of nearly $2O,000 per year for teachers alone
 Fifth. We find this school has sufficient equipment to care for 800 to l0o pupils. and under proper man. agement We feel that that number of pupils can be easily obtained from the 2 counties which compose this agri- cultural district
 Sixth We found the dairy herd consisted of 13 Jerseys and four Hol- stein COWS. nine calves and two bulls Some of the cattle were in good condi- ton, while others were not Hogs sheep and goats were all in good con diton
 We are frank 10 say that from our observation the discipline and the out lined study course is not what it should be we were informed by the student body that the superintendent is very lenient and that they worked (studied) about as they pleased How yer, we were informed by the best citizens of Russellville that the con ditions, discipline and interest in the school are far superior to what it had been under a former superintendent We were further informed by the cit izens that the school was closed last year one month early on account of nOnattendance caused by friction be tween the superintendent then in charge and the student body. Furth ermore, we were informed { hat when | Professor Luker the present super intendent, took charge in July, 1916 1 the enrolment was 40. and that it has | already steadily grown until the nun Der in attendance now is tS0.
 "The business men of Russellviue l assured us that they intended 10 ini- l tiate a campaign this spring which | would result in bringing the enroll i mont of the school up to 300 or more. 1 They said further that conditions were SO much better under the pres ent management than they had ever been before that they felt safe in prom ising this increased enrolment, and all { hat they wanted was the chance to prove 10 the members of the Gen eral Assembly and to the people that the Russellyille school win compare favorably next year with the other az ricultural schools of the state
 The board of trustees asked for an appropriation of 5000 to cover de ficiency of last biennial period, $S0o0 to pay for 120 acres of land for which the state had contracted. but had not paid for, and in addition to that an appropriation of $s6,000, of which s40- 0o0 should apply to teachers salary and the remaining $3A 900 for general running expenses.
 However, we your committee rec commended the following appropria- tions, to-Wit:
 To cover deficiency. ......... .S23,000 For teachers salary .......... 26oo1 For general running expense 260oo
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