Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-18
j. Of P. CLUBS
MEETING HERE TO
DISCUSS PROBLEMS
Hope TO Suggest Plans for Making
Institution One Of Coun-
try's Leaders.
ASSOCIATED CLUBS
AT HOTEL DU POINT

| 'ne heeo ior the placing of the UNI
versity OF Pennsylvania upon better
/ business basis and other problems CON
| fronting tho leading institution Of learn
| ing IN Philadelphia were outlined by
/ A. X, Brunkers president of the Asso-
ciated Pennsylvania Clubs in bis adj
| dress To the members at the opening
session OF the fifth annual convention of
the clubs in the club room Of the Hotel
! du Pont today.
Delegates To the convention which will
number about 200 when they all arrive
here will today and tomorrow discuss
the problem as they see them, that
confront the university and make
pertinent remedial suggestions for the
later approval by the university head
The problem that now confronts the
University" said Mr.. Bunker" is
complex one Added 10 this the resigna- |
tion Of Provost Smith still further com
plicatcs things.
II hope that at this meeting some
definite expression of the esteem in which /
we Penn men hold the Provost may be !
forthcoming This expression might take /
the form of a suggestion for the creation
Of provost emeritus, post. carrying
with IL n certain supervision over educa-
tonal matters aud assistance in the
financial administration Of the affairs of
the University
From my own business experience
believe the university should he first
put on financial hasis 10 insure is
success
There are three things the alumni ean
suggest | do not think we should cut
nff All state aid but arrange to reduce
such help gradually, and supplying the
deficiency in other ways
Another way is to make IL an entirely
state organization
The third way out Of this problem is
70 cut our cloth 20 fit our ability lf we
nave only enough buildings and teaching
oree for tve Thousand students we should
accept just that manv."
HIGHER saTAhIEs rRREp
Mr. Brunker referred to the made
flate salaries paid instructors. and said /;
was necessary to keep the present staff !
educators, that salaries should be !
As regards an endowment policy. nc
ard the subject should be approached
, fear and trembling
Although the discussion Of a nlau for /,
sgrgatizipg the Alumni Association was &
'hssirled fsn -this rfserruot,. rryes,rt an ],
constituent Club by Cornelius - Srills. !,
Putshurg partly prrcirtated dmr,iH- &
on of the vital problems involved in the
organization idea l.
Mr.. Scully during his report referred 10 b
,e activities of the university. and said ),
vat they must not bo Philadelphia led or :
from the provost office, but -
lat there should be corporation on mat q
RS pertaining 10 the university He com :,
ented on tho fact that while plblirity :,
rs given 10 what each nf the football or
lsehall teams did. that there was little n
1own as To the scholastic efforts and !.
Of the university He -,
tcrrcd to the four recent expeditions that /,
70 university has directed and that If :,
C alumni in far distant parts of the T.
untry could have knowledge of the de- =,
lis aud success of these expeditions that A
would help in cementing the sons Of old :,
snu more firmly together and be Of ult- =,
ate good go the university ~
In the intimate affairs of the university a
ch as the naming of new professors and -,
her details the report cited that the -
lstees or whoever were responsible were \,
4 frank enough. These things. it was y,
holped TO make the graduate n
Sc interest III his place of learning i,
As INCENTIVE FOR INTEREST. of
President Brunker suggested that per- IN
I1s only through service could the thing
ey sought be fostered To give an NJ
lmni something to do for the tiniver- Te
v that would be suitably recognized sh
d that through this service the interest III,
the university could be maintained q
DR.. Mcclellan of Philadelphia said Cir
At not the machine should be blamed Oh
the human equation should be found 81.
king. That il WAS the duty of the Tie
lmni ASSOCIATION to see TO IT that the Go
bs were organized and Kept alive with
cooperation of the Associated Clubs WI
But he also argued that Els
re should be suitable information dis We
linated from Philadelphia to keep Of
; interest going. ing
'roiessor Grayson, head of the extension
evening schools at the university. Jur
of the work that the schools were yea
ng IN giving lectures and concerts Woi
lugh the professors and university
)s, but his effort while satisfying to a
ii degree the object aimed at. was not
enough for the present situa-
mong the interested listeners 81 the
ions are the six men delegated TO /
esent the trustees Of the University OF t
These are Arthur l.. mao
rch, j. b. Lippincott, J. Levering son,
y, Lewis Madeira, Morris J. Clothier the
George Wharton Pepper. Ioin
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