The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-02-10
THE WRONG REMEDY

\ lively fight has been started at
the state capital owe a bill to remove
the state university from NermIllion
10 Sioux Falls, under the guIse OF
greater growth Of that institution
through greater town backing and
greater opportunities such as a large
city like Sioux Falls would have to
offer. The proposal attracts great in
terest in Brookings through the kim
dred relationship of State college to
the university. But it especially in
terests the citizens OF Brookings after
reading the following editorial from
the Huronite:
"The states two largest educational
institutions are located in towns whose
possible support of them Is limited,
and both these schools are under
more or less of a handicap on that
account. The state university is one
and the state college is the other.
The state college should be at Huron,
anu tHlS is q ldtL maj ID ouLhiINoN ~
members OF the corps in charge of the
splendid work being done at Brook
ings. There is a limit to what a small
town can do for a great institution,
whereas no limit ought TO be put on
the development of any states educa-
tionai institutions. Even IL 1t must
be at material sacrifice, the education
of the coming generations of South
Dakotans in South Dakota should not
be held back"
The contentious of both Sioux Falls
and Huron are based on the entirely
impression that the success
and growth of a state institution de-
ponds upon the town in which it is
located. The town does not make the
school. The growth of the school
depends upon the state for it is a
state institution. If the state builds
up the school the school will grow.
The state should have greater pride
in their educational institutions than
to allow them to depend upon any one
town for their support. The only
handicap of the state institutions In
this state is meager appropriations for
their development and growth, and not
because they happen to be situated in
small cities. We fail to note where
the universities and state colleges Of
Michigan, California, Washington, Ore
gon, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Colo
RADIO, Illinois, and hundreds of others
Of the greatest and largest schools in
the United States suffer any handicap
by being located in small towns.
Without exception these schools con-
slider it an advantage TO be located in
small town. Pennsylvania State col
ege was located in no town whatever.
The name of the postoffice is State
and the school and its envi-
'ons make up the entire town. 1t is
me of the greatest Of the state col
eyes in the country. The handicap Of
no town at all to support it
to be no handicap at all.
1t is quite plain that Sioux Falls
md Huron are not thinking sc much
II the great advantages which they
would give to the university and State
as they are of the great bene-
It's which those schools would give
them. There are colleges located
It both Sioux Falls and Huron at
he present time yet we hear nothing
II the phenomenal growth they enjoy
because of the splendid advantages
hey have by being located in those
titles. State college and the univer-
ity, both have enjoyed a great growth
n the last few years. The buildings
re outgrown as fast as they are
,uilt. More instructors are needed
o handle the greatly increased num-
,er Of students. AS rapidly as the
tate provides facilities for a larger
Of students, the students
There is no question that If
tate college had buildings, equip
nent and instructors sufficient for
900 students, there would be 1000
tudents enrolled at the present time.
The state educational institutions
Z this state do not need greater sup
ort from the towns, but they do need
reater support from the state. 1t
time South Dakotans discontinued
he idea that the state educational in
are town institutions. 1t is