The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-09
The Institution Expects a Thou
sand Students This Fall.
Better Equipped in Every Way
for Service.
FACILITIES ARE THE BEST
New Liberal and Practical Col
lege Provisions Available.
Prospects Brightest in the His
tory of the School.

At the opening of the September
session Washburn college is prepared
to give the best service ever available
to the one thousand students expected
to attend this fall Kansas parents
were probably never more anxious,
never better provided to send their
children to college than now. The col
lege recognizes the opportunity and
is prepared to meet it
During the last three and a half
years with which President p. p
Womer has been identified with the
big Kansas educational institution,
great things have been accomplished.
Here are some of them:
The five hundred thousand dollar
endowment fund has been secured
Requirements have been complied
with which have secured $4,000
from the Rockefeller foundation and
S25,000 additional will shortly be
forthcoming fIom the same source.
The long contemplated college farm
has been established and put upon a
practical basis. Sixty acres, the south
portion of the tract which for years
was waste ground covered largely with
weeds, has now been reduced to cul-
tivation producing profitable crops
Cattle, hogs, chickens, with the neces-
sary farm housing. barns. coops and
equipment. have been supplied and
now produce for the dormitories milk,
meats, eggs and vegetables.
Ground was recently broken and the
building started for the new dormitory
and heating plant. This is to cost
S160,000 and includes a new sewer
system.
Upon completion of the dormitory
now under construction, Hofbrook
Hall. a present dormitory, will be re-
modelled and will house the law school,
thus bringing this department back to
the campus. 1t will provide what is
believed Will be the finest law school
in Kansas.
In addition to the new department
Of education the department of do
mestic science, now in it's second year,
gives more practical and desirable IA
cilities for education and experience
in the science which has to do with
the everyday life of every person. This
department of domestic science is in
charge of Miss Elsie Jones, who re-
Gently secured her Master of Arts de-
gree at Columbia college, with the as
sistance of Miss Rose Baker. gradU-
ate of Manhattan, thoroly conversant
with the excellent domestic science
workings of that institution. 1t is
confidently asserted that while there
may be larger departments of this ma
ture, there is none more efficient in
the training of the student in culinary
and household work
The cafeteria recently established at
Washburn is a new feature and now
and refreshment requirements of COL
lege life and entertainment.
The growth and advancement of
Washburn college during the past
three years may well be matters of
pride for the people of Topeka and
Kansas. The fact that during that
whole period there were only two dis
/ missals OF teachers, and those made
by the board of trustees. shows a re-
markably harmonious management.
Literally Governed College.
In view of the fact that the question
of reorganizing Washburn college has
been raised SO insistently Of late, there
are certain misconceptions about the
present form of organization that need
to be cleared away and certain plans
for the reorganization of the college
that are now being put into operation
of which the public needs to be in
formed.
As compared with other private
colleges of Kansas. Washburn is per-
haps the most literally organized and
governed in the state. Several years
ago the Washburn form of govern
ment was revised and so far liberal
lied that the college was able to sat
isfy the exacting conditions of the Car
negie Foundation and was admitted to
the privileges of that Foundation.
Character of Board of Trustees.
The Board or trustees Is not wholly
self-perpetuating as has repeatedly
been announced. For one thing the
Alumni association has long exercised
! the right Of choosing three members
( of the board. The Kansas Congrega-
tional Conference, which has always
had a friendly interest in the college
| is also allowed to choose three trus-
tees. In other words. these two bodies
] choose one-fourth of the entire board
( Besides the three members of the
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