Evening journal., 1920-03-05
TO WARD OFF AN EDUCATIONAL CALAMITY.

Committee to the fact that teacheress colleges
what the Legislatures OF various States try
ing TO avert In the United States. That Is something
which Of necessity, because OF Delaware College and the
women's College OF Delaware interests Deawareans.
Attention is called to the fact that recent reports to
the Offices Of several leading college endowment cam
pagns New York indicate that thousands Of graduates
throughout the country have begun cooperation to ward
of calamity which President William Allan Nelson OF
Smith College, Northampton Mass described 1.-THE
possibility Of the annhilaon OF profession" And
President schurman Of Cornell, echoes the Harvard
slogan To-day the who minds the train gets more
pay than the who trains the mind"
other than through State legislatures colleges have
only one way escaping financial ruin according TO the
belief Of leading educators namely through the appeal
to graduates FOR increased endowment funds Many in
stutions are depending entirely this method. Bryn
Mawr is asking 100000; smith, the largest college for
women In the world seeking siOOOOOO; Mount olyoke,
South adey Mass needs s3OO0O0O Barnard College, OF
New York calls s5OOOO and other homes OF learning
are trying 10 collect larger smaller amounts Both
Delaware College and the Womens College Of Delaware
also need legislative and individual aid.
The list of needy colleges, which from Harvard
with $4,000 living alumni to Reed College oregon, With
i3s includes establishments in all parts Of the country
The sought varies from 100000 TO Si525OOOO
but their plghts all alike the high cost OF living and
the increased expense Of operating has caused all endowed
colleges fairness TO their faculties and to their stand
OF instruction, to out Tor more money. III
Instances only increased tuition fee considered
because the doors must be kept open 10 the rich and
poor alike
Among the colleges which have sent out appeals for
aid are Delaware Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Columbia
Cornell Massachusetts, Institute OF Technology Fordham
Tufts Bowdoin New York University Reed College and
Leland stanford Nine colleges in Ohio have united in
their appeals, did several in Colorado and Iowa
Among the smaller colleges is Tusculum at Greenwich
Tenn, whose 2iO alumni have set out to raise half
million Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter n. IT,, was
at the head Of the list OF preparatory schools seeking
funds All these appeals It is estimated, have reached
about $4,000 college graduates in all parts of the world
Among the states which have taken action toward
appropriatng more money for higher education are
California Montana south Dakota Michigan Utah. Iowa
Virginia, Pennsylvania North Carolina, Wisconsin, Ala
bama and New Mexico.
In California the state Board Of Control has obtained
the passage OF bill approprating $4,000 to meet the
present high cost Of education The Montana Legsla-
tre has increased the salaries OF the poorly paid
instructors the University Of Montana from five to ten
per cent IN South Dakota it is reported that appropra
ons for education arc being steadily added TO-" while
in Michigan. the Legislature has voted special increase
of s3JOOOO for the state university alone. The
Nchgan state normal schools have also been granted
Increase of $500 a year for the teaching staffs.
For the needs OF the University Of Pennsylvania, the
state Legislature has voted 100000 an Of
SiJOOO0 over Jle previous dppDplidlloh Summary eI
North Carolina legislators have increased the allowance
for the state from si65OOO TO s2i5OOO In Wisconsin the
high cost OF living also has been taken into account
with the granting Of $4,000 for the State university
more than ever increase OF 100000 for the
normal schools Alabama reports that the appropriation
for the State institutions Of education Will be greater
than ever before" In New Mexico the appropriations Of
the last three years have brought forty per cent in
crease for state colleges.
Increases by Legislatures necessarily smaller than
the funds sought by the private colleges and universities
because the latter are endeavorng to establish funds
which will yield annual income, instead Of trying
merely TO raise enough money to current deficits
Miss Helen Taft, acting president Of Bryn Mawr Col
lege addressing aumnae conference recsnly rela
tive to seeking funds to increase the pay Of the Bryn
awr faculty said that would be better for the college
professors unite to demand higher pay and even per-
hans to strike as body rather than that they would
strike individually by leaving the profession
A college professors union chartered last April
by the American Federation Of Labor. In December
movement was started to include members professors
from the sixteen collegiate institutions in New York City
Local unions have already been established 1t is sad'
at the University OF Illinois, the University Of Montana,
the University OF Missouri Harvard University and Wash
burn College Most Of the professors in sympathy with
the movement believe that anliaon with labor offers
their only means OF obtaining more satisfactory cond-
tlons
Most OF the educational Institutions throughout the
country are proud Of pointing TO the loyalty OF their
teaching stats and Of asserting that discomfort exists
The authorities realize however that only adequate
win remove any likelihood Of future disagreements And
they feel too that only through education can the spirit
OF radicalism be curbed
Both the Delaware Legislature and Deawareans have
an important duty to perform with respect to the pro-
fessors and teachers in two institutions in Newark
II they really Danish Wilhelm to the island OF Curacao
they should change the 10 Curakaiser.