The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-19
DR.. KANE HAS NO
new STANDARDS
In Mind FOR THE
STATEUNIVERSITY
Declares If Any Take Place
Will Be From Natural
Development
WAR EFFECT ON
SMALL COLLEGES,
Says Severe Economy Must
Be Practiced in Finan-
cial Management
WAR EFFECT ON
SMALL COLLEGES,

DR.. Thomas F. Kane, president
elect Of the North Dakota university,
declared Monday afternoon he will
inaugurate no new standards at the
university, but that If any changes
are made they will follow from the
natural development of the state in
stitution.
DR.. Kane arrived in Fargo Sunday,
it being his first visit In the state
since his election to the presidency.
He appeared before the state board
of regents early in January when he
was called in conference with the
board members relative to entertain
ing an offer. DR.. Kane left Fargo
Monday afternoon for Grand Forks,
to get in touch with the problems
that need immediate attention, such
as teachers to be engaged for next
season, and also to have q confer
ence with the state board Of regents
in that city on February %.
DIR. Kane stated that he will take
charge of the university just as
soon as proper adjustments can be
made of his relations with Olivet
college, Olivet, Mich, a Congrega-
tional college with an enrolment OF
about IT'S students.
{. War And Small Colleges. g..
Touching on the status of the
American colleges, especially the
smaller institutions Of learning, be-
cause of the inroads made by en-
lfstments and financial curtailments,
DR.. Kane asserted that special
friends of the colleges should ap-
preciate now, IL any time, the ftnan-
cial difficulties which the colleges
are experiencing, and ought to in
crease their help to the colleges
through the war period.
ION the financial side, colleges
that have not an endowment income
which will cover fair proportion
Of the expenses, are having difhcult
problems as far as being dependent
on the benevolence Of friends" said
the president. "On the average the
attendance is reduced by enlistments
SO that the income from this source
Is also reduced.
Recommends Severe Economy.
THE policy to be followed in such
a case is severe economy in imam
cial management with expenses re-
duced to the lowest point consistent
with efficient work. In business con-
Germs throughout the nation where
the enIistments have been heavy 1t is
a common practice to double up the
work for a year or so. Under stress,
colleges must face similar conditions
TO avoid adding teachers to the staff.
Special friends of the colleges should
appreciate the ANTIQUITIES in finances
and ought to increase their help to
the college through the period OF the
war;
DIR. Kane stated that the war has
increased the need for colleges to
remain open. He estimated that IS
per cent Of the officers in the Of
ficers' training camps are college
men, and that about 10000 college
men are serving in the national
army. .-
DR. Kane was president of the Uni
versity of washington for twelve
wears. 1902-1914. During his work
for t. university, the enrolment In
creased from 500. including 100 pre- |
paratory students, to 3.340. with no
preparatory and more than 40
graduate students; the total NJ grad |
mates up to 1902 (1S611902) was
500. the applicants for degrees in |
1914, 275: the number on the faculty.,
a02, was So, and in 1914, 1Sl. In
1914 the annual incOme was some
thing more than half a million dol
lars. almost exactly equal the total
appropriations to the university up
ZION. The university gained a rating
In "class one" OF the four classes
OF the United States commission
sr's report. In which class are only
ten per cent OF the colleges and uni
versities OF the country.
Dr. Kane, while. still at Olivet
only four years after his De Paw
university course. was selected as
an editor Of the University Publish
ing comrany Of New York. This
work led DR.. Kane to accent a call
to a nrofessorship in the University
of washington. He thought he
might there give all OF his energies
40 his department work and be able
to complete the editing OF the texts
assigned to him. He was at Wash
ington but two years. however. when
1,a was asked TO act as rresident for
n year. At the end OF the year. he
was called upon to bold the position
this taking him away
from his teaching work altogether.
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