Evening star., 1932-11-15
WASTE IN learning.
SEEN BY EDUCATOR
Or. Burruss Proposes. Pay.
ment Plan at Land Grant
Colleges Session.

1t must be- admitted there is waste in
the administration of public, institutions
of higher learning. DR.. j. A. Burruss,
president of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, declared this morning at the
forty-siXth annual convention of the
Association of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities.
This waste arises, he declared,
through unrestricted admission of stu
dents without regard TO their qualifica-
tions to absorb a college education.
DR.. Burruss urged that scholastically
poor students be weeded out from land
grant colleges and universities. rather
than the adoption of arbitrary entrance
requirements.
1T seems advisable" he declared,
"for students to pay tuition in inverse
proportion to their accomplis at
college The first-year student should
be admitted without tuition, and if his
marks fall below a certain standard, he
should be summarily expelled. If his
marks are only fair, he should pay for
the education being given him, while
the excellent student should pay no
tuition"
The report on the effect Of the pres
ent economic situation on land grant
institutions was presented by Dean O..
Lutes Of the University Of Maine, in
the absence of DR.. H. s. BoardmaI1,
president of the University OF Maine
and chairman Of the committee.
Other Addresses.
The 500 educators attending the ccn-
vsntion also heard an address by VIII
BAN John Cooper, commissioner OF edu-
cation of the Department of the 1nte-
rior. Dr. Cooper predicted that the
time win come when it will be necessary
20 have social control of business.
Chancellor e. A. Burnett OF the UNI
versity of Nebraska also spoke.
Regulation, both privately and pub
hcly, of land utilization was urged by
DR.. F. d. Farrell, president Of the Kan
sas Agricultural College.
The convention convened yesterday
and win continue through tomorrow
morning Special sessions are being
held on resident teaching. experimental
station work, extension work, engineer
ing, home economies and agriculture.
Tonight there will be report on the
agricultural situation and DR.. F. B.
Bomberger, chief of the division Of CO.
operative marketing, Federal Farm
Board, will discuss the relation of the
Farm Board to cooperative marketing.
UphOlds College Standards.
Closing of colleges during the depres-
sion years would be preferable to lower
ing of standards, DR. E. o. Holland,
president of Washington State College
and head Of the Association of Land
Grant Colleges and Universities, de-
clared at the opening session of the
convention yesterday afternoon.
DR.. Holland suggested 1t would be
less costly to abridge the Nations road
building program for year or two than
to have the educational system crippled.
He said the two great perils facing
the American educational system are
the organized group seeking a SO per
cent reduction in the cost of public
education and the "few self-constituted
leaders who protest against the whole
scheme Of American public education"
Last night, DR.. A. r. Mann, provost
Of Cornell University, asserted the re-
lief of existing farm problems calls for
collective action, and suggested that "an
impartial investigation of the effects of
our tariff policies on our foreign mar
kets for agricultural products" would
aid the colleges in discharging their
educational functions.
Cooperation between educational In
titutionS and governmental agencies
Is needed to solve the socal problems
Of rural America; DR.. A. r. Woods, d.
rector Of scientific research, Depart
ment of Agriculture, told the delegates
to the convention.
Edward ONeal, president OF the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
brought greetings to the association and
said the State educational Institutions
are the bulwark of the Nation.
DR.. e. G.. Nourse, director Of the In
stitute Of Economics Of the Brookings
Institute, warned the college repre-
sentatives against reactionary attitude
in the social sciences.
Dean j. H. Skinner Of Indiana spoke
on adjusting colleges to diminished
revenue.