Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-20

CHAS. w. CURTIS, Sec.
come to know the members of the
faculty"
DR.. Little has certain definite ideas
about unconventional manners. He
has a most democratic way of coming
around Unexpectedly. Said DR.. Lit
tie. 80 far as the members of the
faculty go, l never ask a man to come
to see me that l can first find, my
SELF"
The Students Leader
The degree OF understanding that
DR.. Little has with the boy mind is
well demonstrated by an incident
which happened recently. Some
straps recently disappeared from the
Bangor & Oldtown E.ectrics. and was
brought to DR.. Litties attention by
some of the officials of the road. DR..
Little pinned a notice on the bulletin
board that the students having
knowledge about this affair would
find on his desk box in which he
would receive deposits to pay for the
missing straps, and if at the end Of
two days there were not sufficient
funds to pay for the straps he would
make up the difference from his own
pocket. From the number OF stu
dents who deposited money in the
box it was found that there was no
deficit for the President to make up.
This and other instances have
proven conclusively that DR.. Little
knows how to handle boys as well as
how to educate them. He says: Il
believe in getting the confidence Of
my boys, of keeping cheerful and
teaching them that this is big
game"
The Vital Need for Money
The University of Maine resolve
carries s197.454 for the next two
years for restoration of buildings and
repairs of heating plants. $4,000 for
girls dormitory, dairy building and
science building, and an average OF
S3S4,000 year for maintenance, OPP
Grating expenses, depreciation on
buildings. etc. For the past two
years the University Of Maine has
been receiving S225,0 900 4 year.
Twenty years ago. or in 1908, there
We're registered $50 students. This
year there are 1414 students. ESQ Of
this number is enrolled in the Col
lege Of Agriculture. Over ninety per-
cent of these students come from
Maine farms and eighty percent upon
graduation return to the farm and
practice agriculture, seventy percent
of them on Maine soil. In 1903 there
were less than dozen students reg
istered in the College Of Agriculture.
There is no auditorium or building
on the campus sufficient to accomo-
date the entire student body for
chapel exercises which are now held
on the installment plan. So over
crowded are the recitation rooms
that the overflow classes are held in
the easements Of the various build
ings without sufficient equipment and
Accommodations.
Nothing Less Than Mill Tax
DR.. Little told the Journal man
that nothing less than a one mill tax
would put the University of Maine on
an ADEQUATE permanent basis and
unless the amount asked for in the
resolve is granted, the college must
close its doors to at least $50 students
next September. 1.-The other COL
leges." DR.. Little explained, I" are
already overcrowded and the bulk Of
the $50 students who must be denied
admission at the State University II
the State fails to do it's full duty by
appropriations. would have to seek
education outside of Maine.
If the State Fails
For the State to fail to provide the
financial support called for in the re-
solve means general reversion and
falling back to conditions Of twenty
years ago at the University and spe-
officially the forced reduction of the
Freshman class from approximately
four hundred to one hundred and
fifty. and of the total student body
from 1850 (not including the summer
schooD to approximately $50. About
eighty-five percent of the boys and
girls in attendance come from Maine
and the tragedy of denying them this
opportunity Of education hits home.
without adequate support the
University will be reduced to less
than half its present size: boys and
girls will be turned away from the
State University as they have been
from the public schools OF New York
City. With mill tax available. each
year consolidation of the various
college activities. including agricul-
tural extension work. under the head
Of the University. should be possible
and. by rigid economy, it's continue
alton should be assured"