New Britain herald., 1925-01-07
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 BY GOV. BINGHAM
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 taught as well under system which | permits the local authorities to make | mistakes this loss Is as nothing ' compared to the consequences Of q paternallstlc system which. although | providing standardized schools. stan dardized teachers and standardized l children, fails to develop sef-reliant | citizens. Our system should give | the school committees the responsi- bility for making Important decl. sions. It should give teachers the joy of being able 10 exercise their own initiative and the satisfaction of inspiring their pupils with high ann bition.
 Fortunately the last general as. sembly appointed a very able eom-
 mission on the revision and codifica- tion of our school laws. This com
 mission has devoted large amount
 of time to this subject and will In
 the near future present to you a
 comprehensive report as the result of its studies. l recommend that
 this report receive your most careful
 consideration.
 Agricultural Experiment Station
 Our agricultural experiment sta
 ton represents the kind of thing for
 which the citizen has right to look
 to the state. It does not direct his
 action. It does try to discover the
 truth and make 1t available for him
 when he asks for 1t. It does not re-
 lieve him of the responsibility for
 making good decisions and for eX-
 ercising his ingenuity and self-reli-
 ance. It does give him the advan-
 tage of investigation conducted on a
 scale to which he alone could not
 possibly attain. We have every req
 son to be proud of its record. Not
 only through its valuable publica-
 tions but by reason of the assistance
 which 1t is enabled to give to in
 dustry and commerce, as well as 10
 the individual agriculturalist in help
 ing him to solve his own personal
 difficulties, it has long justified It's cordial support by the state.
 Connecticut Agricultural College With regard to the Connecticut Agricultural college the time has come for the general assembly to define clearly the ultimate purpose of the state. The question Is this
 Does Connecticut desire to estapllsl
 A flrst-class state university like thai of the state of Wisconsin, where the annual appropriation is about liV' million dollars, or does Connecticu wish to follow the Massachusett' r,an of leaving the universities II nriyate hands and maintaining fol state purposes a first-class, well equipped agricultural college Witi [ the object of preparing young mel = and women for successful farming r While it is not to be doubted that . farmer who has a broad genera Il education, the result of unlVersil training, Is better equipped 10 emu
 rura, fife than one who has peel !. denied these advantages, the ques 0 t,on is. do the taxpayers or thi - state. whose representatives are no' y in the general assembly, wish 'o "s Q s,n,a inc burden of building up l. Storrs a great state unlNers''s l. Tbere are now in this state ti'le
 velI-eouipped colleges or unlVersilie : for men and one for womeh' III oo 0 bordering states there are lars t number of privately endowed oo' = lages and universities. In no le c rion of America are there better op f nortunities than. at present eAlSt - New England for any earhes
 intelligent student 10 pu.su l. to inc utmost whatever course s of study and research he aes're' re l. Thn ob;ection Is made that the eN tt ncrse of attendance at these priVa't e iv endowed institutions is very haao .io IS greater than at 8 state lns',Vu'.u
 where the taxpayers furnish LII if moncv. It Is claimed that none pt l. tbo weu-to-do can enjoy the aoVal a toges of the existing colleges. "A q a matter of fact there are huhuIou . h os students in the existing lnstitO ,H tions who are working their wa ,, either in whole or in part. Al ou largest university there are near :, thousand students recelVla ;, scholarship aid, and about l'SO | who earn part and many who al lo earning all of their own expense .e Any young man with good menu T., cnnipment and earnest purpose ca s secure q college education in Coi
 nacticut no matter how limited n at financial resources. In view In these facts and of the enormous co ol of creating a state university 'u would seem the part Of wisdom ue
 nitely to adopt a plan designed
 make Storrs an exceptionally efe
 tive agricultural college rather th'
 an institution for general educauo
 If is worthy of remark thar the a to propriations made by the genei
 assembly during the past ten yea ,st to the agricultural college for "ge he eral uses" have increased four hr in dred per cent. In 1915 the biqnn ,ts appropriation for general uses " f. sS0,OOO. In 1923 it was $4Oo,o' TS During the same period the increa % for the extension service has be or % from $15,OOO to $15O,OOO. The " is no question but that the taxpay'
 nave been liberal in their support " the college and its work.
 , In the past, state colleges Of az u, culture have depoted a great deal uS' attention to the problems of prod' so ton. At present the need seems l.1 H be fully as great in regard to | p's problems of marketing. There