Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-19

ION the financial side of colleges
that have not an endowment income
of which will cover a fair proportion
Of the expenses, many are having dlr-
facult problems IS far as being de-
pendent on the ~benevolence or
Friends" DR., Kane said. ON the aver
e the attendance is reduced by en-
listments so that the income from This
source to the college is also reduced.
Severe Economy Necessary.
1.-The policy to be followed in such
management with expenses reduced
down to the lowest point consistent
with efficient work for the students.
In business, concerns throughout the
nation where enlistments nave been
heavy it is a common practice to dou-
bic up the york for a year or so under
stress to avoid adding to the staff and
friends Of the colleges should appre-
ciate the difficulties in finances and
ought to increase their help to the col
lege through the period of h war;"
DR.. Kane state that the var has in
creased the need for colleges to re-
main open. He estimated that IS per
cent of the officers in the officers
that about ~ 1900 college men are
serving in the national army. DR..
Kane views the war from a college
mans viewpoint. He won hOnorS as q
student in both his college and uni
versity courses. At DePauw university.
as a freshman, he won the freshman
Latin prize, INA contest in reading
and writing Latin; as Il sophomore,
the Parr gold medal in essay writing;
as a Junior, second class honors in
Latin; as a senior, first class honors
in Latin; as Il junior n senior, the
| appointment as department tutor in
his major subject.
"U' President for 4. Years.
The new head of the North Dakota
university was president Of the uni
versity OF Washington for the IL
! years, 1902 to 1914. During this per-
jod, the enrollment, at the university
preparatory students, to 3,34O, with
no preparatory and more than 100
graduate Students; the total of grad
yates up to 1902 uS61-1902) was 800,
the applicants for degrees in 1914,
275; the number on the faculty 1902
was So, and in 1914, 1871. In 1914 the
annual income was something more
than half a million dollars, almost X
actly equal the total appropriations
to the university up to the beginning
of his administration. The university
gained Il rating in class one" of the
four classes of the United States com-
missioner's.r report in which class are
only ten per cent OF the colleges and
universities Of the country. =
DR.. Kane. while still at Olivet. only
four years after his university course,
was selected AZ an editor OF the Uni
versity Publishing company of New
York. This purpose was M of tho
things that led DR.. Kane to accept Il
call to a professorship in the Uni
versity of Washington. He thought he
might there give all of his energies tc
his department work and be able t.
complete the editing of the texts as.
signed to him. He was at Washington
but two years., however, when he was
asked to act as president for a year
while the regents were securing d
president. At the end of the year, he
was called upon to hold the position
permanently, thus taking away from
his teaching work altogether. This
was the first time he had been taker
from his teaching to do executive
work and he accepted the inevitable