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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYAl len, Auglaize , Hancock , Me rcer, Putnam and Van We r tCount ies—Dr . Earl G . Swan, Ex . '06, President, Lima ;Clarence N. B reese , Ex . 'Ol , Secre tary , Lima, Ohio .Athens and Hocking Count ie s— Char le s C . Sharp, '88, P resident, Ne l sonvil le , Oh io ; Claude W . Pe t t it , ' l l , Secre tary ,Logan, Ohio .But ler County—Ham il ton, Oh io : P resident , P . P . Bol i,Ex . ’08 ; S ecre tary , Theodore E . Bock , 'OlCh il l ico the, (Ross County)—Wilby G . Hyde , '87 , President, Ch il l ico the , Oh io ; Robe r t O . Evans , ' lo, Secre tary ,Ch il l icothe , Oh io.Cl inton County—Blanche s ter, Oh io : President, M iss RebaSkimm ing, ' l 2 ; Secre tary , C . M . Day , '99 .Clark - Champaign Count ie s—Springfield, Oh io : President,W . W . Ke ife r, '86 ; Secre tary , M iss Anne Hae se ler , '04 ;Treasurer, George M . Winwood , Jr . , Ex . '09 .Cinc inna ti—'Ma‘rion J . Wh itacre , '94 , Pre sident , 2206 Auburn Ave . , Cinc innati, Oh io ; Ol iver M . Dock , '03, Sec

re tary, Provident Bank B ldg , Cincinnati, Ohio.Col umbiana County— Pe rry L . Rigby , Ex . ' l 3, Secre tary.Eas t Liverpool , Ohio .Coshoc ton County—Coshoc ton, Ohio : Pre sident , Harry Lybarge r , ’ I3 ; Vice - President , Mrs. Edson Wil son ; S ecretary -Treasurer, Ar thur H. C . Shaw, ' I I .Crawford County—A . O . Theobald , Ex . '05 , P re sident ,Gal ion, Oh io ; A . E . Moody , '07 , Secre tary , Cres t l ine ,Oh io.Cuyahoga County—Don P . M il l s, Ex . '03, President , Cit i

z ens B ldg , Cleve land ; B . H. Davis, ' IO, Secreatry , 492E . lo5 th St Cleve land , Ohio .Darke County— Greenvil le , Oh io : Pre sident , J . A . Smith ,

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05 , Arcanum , Ohio ; Secre tary , Ernes t Ol l ive r , ' l 3, Versail le s , Ohio ; Treasurer , Hugh Mc wen, Ex . '02, Rou teI I , Greenvil le , Oh io .Erie County—Sandusky , Oh io : P re sident , W . H. Spence rStrong, '9 l ; Vice - Pre sident , M iss Louise Col ton, '06Secre tary, Wil l iam P . B it tner , '02 .Faye t te County—Wash ington C . H. ; President , HowardHagler , '88 ; Secre tary , Dr . H. M . Rober ts .F airfie ld County— Wal ter N . Cla-il in, '09, Pre sident , Lan

cas ter , Oh io ; Thomas P . Wh ite , ’07 , Secre tary , Hooke r,Oh io .Col umbus—E . G . Lloyd , 'Ol , President ; Wal te r J . Sears ,

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l 2, 2 I2 W . Tenth Ave . , Columbus, President ; M issMarie Mul l igan, ' I I , 202 W . Eigh th Ave ., Columbus ,Oh io, Secre tary .

Town and Gown Club—Col umbus : Pre sident, H. M .Mye rs , '05 Harrison B ldg ; Vice - P re sident , Samue l G .Osborne , '97 , Cour t House ; S ecre tary , H. N . Sch le singe r ,'

99, Central Nat ional Bank B ldg ; Treasure r, L . F .Sater, ’95 , 52 E . Gay St .Gre ene County— Pau l B . Yockey , ’97 , P res ident ,! enia, Oh io ; Carrie Hutch ison, Ex . '00, Secre tary ,! enia, Oh io .Guernsey County— Cambridge , Oh io : President , C . E l l 'Moore , ' IO; Secre tary -Treasurer, Frank C . Mackey , ' lo;Execu tive Commit tee : U. D . Thompson, R. M . Dix ,'

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ASSOC IATIONS IN OHIOHam il ton County—Cincinnat i, Oh io : Pres ident , Dr . Mar ionWh itacre , '94 , 2206 Auburn Ave . ; Vice - President , Stanley Bachman, Ex . ' I l , Me rcantile Library B ldg. ; Sec retary , O . M . Dock , '08, Provident Bank B ldg ; Treasu re r , S . A . Head ley , '05 , 5M Main St . ; Se rgeant - atArrns, E . P . Hagemyer,

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05, 3252 Jefferson Ave Norwood , Oh io.H igh land County—Hil l sboro, Oh io : Pres ident , Dr . W . R .Lukens , ' l 2 ; Vice - President , W . M . Barre t , ' I I ; Secre tary

-Treasurer, J . P . McMu llcn, ' I l ; D irec tors , C. W .Napper ,

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son, Oh io.Knox County—Mt. Vernon, Ohio : Pre sident , F . J . La—wler,

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'Mrs. H . A . Gehres, '06.Lucas County (Alumnae)— M iss He l en Rinehar t, Sec

re tary , 329 Elm St . , Toledo, Ohio .iami, She l by and Darke Count ie s—L. W . Hager, Ex . 'ol .Pre sident , Piqua ; P . S . Klyne , '09, Secre tary , P iqua,Oh io.Muskingum County— Z anesvil le , Oh io : Pre sident , M iss

'Mary A . DeCamp, '06 ; Vice Pre sident , Dr . J . G . F .Hol s ton, Ex . '0l ; Secre tary , J . D . Wh itm er , '08.Montgome ry and Preble Counties—F . J . Cellariu s, '88,Pres ident l008 Commercial B ldg , Day ton, Oh io ; J . B .Harshman, '04 , ’07 , Secre tary, U. B . Bldg , Dayton,Ohio.Morgan County—Charle s L . S tanbery , '92, Pre sident , McConne lsvii

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le , Oh io .P ickaway County—R. W . Dunlap, '95 , Pres ident, Kingston, Ohio.Rich land and Ash land Counties—Allen Bond , '09, Sec

re tary , care Oh io B rass Co . , Mansfie ld , Oh io .Ross County—Chil l icothe , Oh io : Pre sident, W . G . Hyde ,

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, Ex . ' 12 ; Junius Hunter , '09 ; Harry Harmount,Ex . 'ISandusky County— F remont , Ohio : P resident , W . F .Schepfl in,

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Toledo—George W . Beat ty , Ex . ’85 , President , care Central Oh io Pape r Company , Toledo, Oh io ; Wil l iam E .Wrigh t , Ex . 'l2 , Secre tary , 3I3 Huron St. , Toledo, Oh io.

Union County - Rober t Be igl itle r , Secre tary, Marysvil le ,Oh io .Warren County— Lebanon, Ohio : President , Danie l Colle t te , Ex . ’ l 5 , Lebanon ; Secre tary , Char les E . M ichener ,Ex . ' l 3, Wayne svil le , Oh io .Wayne County—D. W . Galehou se , Ex . '0l , President ,Woos te r ; W . L . E l ser, ’09, Secre tary , Woos ter, Oh io.Wil l iams and Ful ton Count ie s—B ryan, Oh io : Officers nuknown. P l ease advise .

OHIO STATE UN IVERS ITY ASSOCIAT IONS OUTSIDE OF OH IO .Alabama—R. E . B rakeman, Ex . '07 , Pre sident , Box 36,So . High land St . Sta. , B irm ingham, Ala.Ames , I owa—Pre sident , G . E . Hesse , ' I0; Secre tary, Dr .H. S . Murphey, '08Atlanta, Georgia—Pres ident , George M . Crabbe , '05,Athens , Ga Secre tary , H . H . Rothe , ' l I , Athens , Ga.Buffalo, N . Y. —President, George H . Calkins, E . '95 , I0thFloor, E lec tric Bldg ; Vice - President, E . J . W il l s, E .'

IO, I I I6 Fe rry St. , N iagara Fal l s ; S ecre tary -Treasurer,C . E . Wal ker, Ex . E . ' I I , 76 F ie ld St Roches ter.

P it t sburgh , Pa.—President , C . E . Skinner, '90, I3O9 Singe rS t Wil kinsburg; Vice - Pre sident , F . S . Balyeat, '09,Box I7 , W il k insbu rg; Secre tary, C. K . Harvey, '06, 336Four th Ave . ; Execut ive Commi t tee , C . E . Stol tz , '09 ,Clover Club , Edgwood Park ; J . S . Morrison, '06, I 4 I 8Ol ive r Bldg ; H . E . Dyche , '06, 324 South Ave .,Wilkinsbu rg.

Calgary, Canada—Frank Hagenbuch, '06, Secre tary, SI3Center Stree t .Central and Nor thern Cal ifornia Associat ion—San Fran

cisco, Cal. ; Pre sident , Wil l iam E . Wh itaker, 'OI , 3I9M il l s B ldg ; V ice - P re sident, B . C . Gerwick, '06, P it tsburg, Cal . ; Secre tary, C . R . George , ' I2, Davis, Cal .Ch icago —B enjamin A . Jackson, '08, President , 4726 RacineAve . , Ch icago ; Samue l R . Guard , 'I2, Secre tary, 542 S .Dearborn St., Chicago, I l l .Cuba—J. E . Stuntz , Ex . '95 , Secre tary, Ensenada de Mora.De troit—S. D . Cal lender, '98, President, Moffat Build ing.Denver —George P . F ackt, '07 , Central Savings Bank B ldg.Ind iana, Ind ianapol is and Kokomo—Organizers : W . GWat son, '06, Kokomo care Pit t sburgh Plate Glass Co. ;Benjamin, H . Riker, I l , I820 Ruckle S t Ind ianapol is,Ind.

Ind iana—F t . Wayne : President, A . A . Serva, '93, can F t .Wayne E lec tric Cc . ; Secre tary, Mrs. George W . Gil l ie,'

08, 634 Law ton Place .Kansas City , Mo .—Pre sident , Dr. George C . Mosher , Ex .

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82 , 36I2 Locus t St . ; Secre tary , Rudolph H irsch , 'OI ,4 I 2 I Kenwood Ave . ; Treasurer, W . C . Pol k , '95, careHome Te l. Co .Kentucky—J. F . Burns , '92, L . N . Rail road , Louisvil le ,Pres ident ; F . Gehres, A . '07 , Owensboro, Ky ., Sec

re tary .

Los Ange le s—Jame s A . Geissinge r, '95 , President , I0l 7 W34 th St .

Manhat tan, Kansas—P resident, F . F . Fraz ier, ' I0; Secretary, L. E . Me lche rs, ' l2, ' I3.

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E—W. R . Judson, '03, Apar tado 830, Mexico City ,

New Or leans—Ph il ip Rothrock , '08, President , 2 I8 Me tropol itan Build ing.

New York—Ernes t K .—Coul ter, Ex . '95 , P re sident , 2 Rec torStree t, New York City ; Frank C . McKinney, 'OI, Sect e lary , 2 Rec tor Stree t , New York City .

New Mexico—Albuque rque : S ecre tary, L . B . M itche l l ,'

03, care University of New Mex ico.New England—H. P . Converse , '87 , President , H . P . Converse Co ., Boston, Mass . ; George C. Greener, '07 ,Secre tary , Copley Hall, Clarendon St., Bos ton, Mass .Nor th Dakota—Agricul tural Col lege : Secre tary , A . F .Schalk, '03.Philade lphia, Pa.—President, Perry S . F ay, ' I I , care JohnWanamaker's Store ; S ecre tary , Dr. L . H . P . Maynard ,

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IO, care John Harrison Chem . Lab .Ph il ippine I s lands—Alva J . Hill, A . '06, Bureau of Jus tice ,Manila.

Oxagon—C. D . Shoemaker, '04 Secre tary , Roseburg,

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Seat t le , Wash ington—P resident, O . P . Cockeril l , '02, '07 ,care University ofWashington ; Secre tary , H . L . E icher,Ex . '07 , 326 Colman B ldg ; Treasurer, C . E . Fowler,Ex . '90, P resident Internat ional Contrac t Co.St . Louis—F . P . Sherwood, Ex . 'OI , S ecre tary , care BellTe lephone Co. , S t . Lou is .

Tenne ssee—R. V . Myers, '93, Pre sident, Empire Bu ild ing.Knoxvil le .Twin Cities—Pre sident , Warren T. Powe l l , '07 , Universityof M innesota, M inneapol is ; Vice - P resident, Theodore D .Crocker, '04, M inneapol is ; Secre tary , C l ifford G. Sal t,'

06, Wes t H igh Schoo l , M inneapo l is , M inn.Utah—E . A . Be ring, President , I I 7 5 th Eas t S t SaltLake City, Utah ; J . T. Dallas, '06, Secre tary , 88 I23d St . , Ogden, Utah.Wash ington, D . C.—President, C lyde B . Asher, '05, 935Woodward Building; Secre tary , E . H . Grant , 'IO, Bureau of Chemis try .We s te rn New York—Pre sident, George H . Calkins, '95.Buffalo ; Vice - l " W ident, Ernes t J . Wills, ' IO, NiagaraFal l s ; Secre tary and Treasurer, C. E . Walker, ' I I .Roche s te r, New York .

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branded h im as one o f their choicest products ,and since then he has o ften trave led back to seehis o ld pal s and to watch the growth o f the Universi ty he loved as a cal low undergrad . Mendon

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But this is get ting to be a preachment when itshould be a triumphant procession, a sort o f hailto - the - chie f , long l ive Myers .The l a st days in Pit tsburg , where J . S . has

d irected the destinie s o f the Post andSun for someyears now as their editor, were fi l led with expressions o f farewel l and a harvest o f good wishes .The employees of the Post and Sun dug down inthe ir wal le ts and purchased an e legant Swiss timepiece with “J. S . M .

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to remember them by when the tower- clock gets springfever. The managing editors o f Pit tsburg l ikewise gave h im a royal feast and sa t around the bigtab le and spun many a word o f regre t, and continned prosperity . The boys o f the inspectionparty , who disembarked in the Smoky Ci ty tocapture information, gave him a rousing studentgree t ing . Al l o f Joe

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c lose to the charmed precincts of the terrible battles

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88 , in which Myers and Joe Taylorand Jumbo Hedges— that Gol iath of the pasttook val i ant part . So he has memorie s to facehim— reading Greek by the aid of a horse underthe cupola in the Ma in Building , fi gh ting withthe enemy o f

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88 and forgetting to report it forthe Dispatch down town, thus showing his cubpropensities , winning a championship in tenni s andstarting the foundations for future prowess a s aPhi Beta Kappa scholar. These and many moreawakened visions wil l wel come him back to thesmil ing campus and the boyhood home .He i s to be a busy man. The editorship o f

the Monthly wil l engage his attention, in additionto the direction o f the alumni work as secre taryo f the Association. And then he is to sit at adesk and ta l k of the great domain o f journal ismand o f how to spin a newspaper yarn while thepresses wait , al l be fore a cl ass o f ambitious col legejournal i sts . He is a real sure - fi re pro fessor witha department of j ournalism to nurture and cul tivate . Probably he wil l do other things , too , butthese should keep the time in a ni ce sta te o f commotion. But Joe i s equal to the task— and possesses a fund o f good humor that wil l silver everyduty and every friendsh ip . He is the man for theplace , fi t ted by education and training , for thejob he has in h and . He has two sons who wil lenter the University next year, fol lowing in theirfather

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s foot- steps . One wil l be an engineer , theother a journal is t .Myers brings w i th him a long and distinguished

service as reporter , newspaper editor and generalgood fe l low .

J . S . M . i s 48 years o f age , Columbus - born,and as youth ful as he i s efficient . Hail to him !

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B y Way of fi f eptae ey am]. Rev iewF RANK M3. RAYM COND,

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N THE BEGINN ING , let me say th a t Ibe l ieve no event has taken pl ace a t the Universi ty in many years freigh ted with greater sig

nificance than this conference o f a lumni. Indeed

no one thing promises greater good in the futuredevel opment o f the Universi ty . From beginningto end, the conference was an earnest businessses sion, in which offi cial s o f the Universi ty pro ffet ed information at fi rs t hand to the alumni andal l in turn worked stead fastly together to discoverj ust the th ings the University

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needed most and

what steps could be taken to meet these needs .Natural ly , in so brie f a space, I can only give

a b irdseye v iew o f what was done . No accountwhich I or others may give o f th i s conference wil lin any wise indicate the spirit , the enthusiasm , thedetermination to hel p the Universi ty which prevai led throughout the entire program . In the firstse ssion the deans o f the Universi ty reci ted in comprehensive report s the work be ing accomplished ,the improvement s they desired to bring about and

the things most urgent ly demanded , in their j udgment , to bring greater e ffi ciency to the work o fthe University . In every report i t was apparentthat cl asses were overcrowded and instructiongrea tly hampered by want o f money properly toconduct the work o f instruction. One thing I th inkwas q uite noticeable— the only cri ticism which Ihave to make— and that i s that each dean seemedto be concerned firs t and foremost with his owncol lege . Not one o f them , unles s it be Pro fessorDenney , seemed to fee l tha t he or hi s col lege owedany definite obl igation to the other col leges . Theirreports wil l bear perusal .Three general committees were appointed at

the beginning o f the conference, one on budget ,one on resolutions , and one on organi zati on. Al lthree commi ttees made reports be fore the end o fthe session, and these may be read el sewhere .

On Fr iday evening , a dinner was served , atwhich about I5O were present . Mr. GeorgeSmart , o f Clevel and, acted as toastmaster and agoodly company o f o ld grads and new respondedto short toasts and volunteered pungent opinions.Most o f these toasts , even those from the undergraduates , were rather serious , but suggest ive o fthough t . The one by C . W . Burket t o f NewYork was especi al ly s igni fi cant , dwel ling , as i tdid , upon the necessi ty o f appropri a ting a l argersum to provide instruct ion and a lesser sum in proport ion to provide for new bui l dings . I may saytha t there was no one suggestion wh ich enl is tedgreater attent ion throughout the conference thanthis one question: How shall we retain good professors, hon) shall we adeq uately pot) for good instru c tion in all the classes ? I think I may say thati t was the consensus o f opinion that the sal arieso f the teaching force, especi a l l y those teaching thelower cl asses should be rai sed to a higher level ,tha t more instructors shoul d be employed , andthat the best teachers possible should be secured .There was no disposi t ion to cri t ici se the presentteaching force ; but there was a very defini te feeling tha t i f bet ter compensation were provided, better materi a l could be secured when addi tions weremade to the Universi ty facul ty .

Some at tention was given to pol i t ical mat tersand the committee on organi zat ion was le ft withful l power to take such steps as migh t be mecessary to begin a campai gn o f education among thepeople o f the State . The sent iment was expressedby a number o f speakers that i t was not the intent ion necessari ly to e lect Oh io State Universi tymen to the legis l a ture, but i t was though t necessaryto see to i t in advance that the candidate s nomimated for senators and representa tive s from thevarious count ies should be friendly toward theUniversi ty and higher education. I t was suggested

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tha t some one get a l ine on al l possible candidates ,so that inte l l igent and systematic work migh t bedone in the intere sts o f the University among pros

pective members o f the legis l a ture .Considerable discussion centered in the attitude

o f other state educational institutions . I t wasstated , with authori ty that the fee l ing betweenM iami and Ohio State University was veryfriendly , that M iami men were wi l l ing and desiredearnest ly to work with this institut ion to secure aproper divi sion o f educational service and a ready

co- operation between the two ins ti tutions . The

attitude o f the Oh io Universi ty , especial ly o f i tsPresident , has been so distinctly hosti le to Oh ioState University that it has been impossib le to cooperate . This animosity o f President E l l is mustbe reckoned with in al l tha t Ohio State Universityattempts to do for i t s advancement , so the sentiment ran. There was no disposit ion shown onthe part o f any o f the speakers to do anyth ing thatmigh t hurt Oh io Universi ty , but the feel ing wasgeneral ly expressed and universal ly entertainedthat we shou ld be prepared, if necessary, to fight

for what the Ohio State University wants andought to have, and that this applied even to the

change of name. The only one expres sing a contrary view was Howard Hagler,

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89 , whose remarks wil l be found further on.The attendance at a l l the sess ions c f the conference was larger than could reasonably havebeen expected ; the gathering a t the d inner wasespecial ly credi table. One thing noticeable wasthat most o f those attending the busines s sessionswere the older al umni. In fact , nearly a l l o f themmigh t be cl assed as patri archs . One member inat tendance remarked that nearly every man presenthad at one t ime l ived in the big dormitory , andthat this was the reason they were enthusias tical umni and always found present on such occasions . I do not think th i s is whol ly just , for Ihave no doubt many o f the younger men wouldhave been present had i t been possible for them todo so .I think I cannot do be t ter in closing than to re fer

to the reso lutions which were adopted . I mightadd for your information that , s ince the conference was held , these reso lut ions have been adoptedin toto by the board o f trustees , and the Presidento f the Universi ty has re ferred to the facul ty theduty o f making a survey o f cl ass room condi tionsand the genera l efficiency o f the Universi ty.

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HE RECENT CONFERENCE o f

Talumni and former students was s ignificanto f the l arger growth o f the Universi ty andwil l mark an era o f more devoted and effectiveservice to the people o f the State . First , i t wasprompted by a new and start l ing sense o f thevery bigness o f the Univers i ty i tse l f . Her campus ,flocking with a host o f students ; the need fortheir adequate hous ing and instruction, in buil dingsand l aboratories ; the present crowded condi tion o fthese faci l ities ; a teaching force , necessari ly growing in size and importance and the ir di sgrace ful lyinadeq uate compensat ion; a pressing demand fora l arger fixed income, based upon a permanentsource o f revenue all these things presented aproblem , at once so urgent and so difficul t , that i tsrigh t so lut ion must be undertaken, first , by her ownsons and daughters and second , by the ci tizenshipo f the S tate.

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Concrete ly the problem was this : Was theUniversi ty to go on in a rationa l and symme tri caldeve lopment o f her service or was she to be checkedin the very morning o f her riches t promi se ? I f shewere to go on in the direction o f her evident destiny then the people o f the State and their publicservants must come wil l ingly to care for her andhe l p her generously on her way .Second , when the problem had become known

and realized by her own chil dren then the firststep in i t s so lut ion was to bring the people intori ght re l a tions o f cordial good wil l and support o ftheir inst i tution for the training o f the fu ture ci tizens o f the State . In short , as the success o fdemocracy demands more democracy , so the moregenerous aid o f publ ic education, in a free Statewhose revenues depends upon voluntary gi fts o f i tsfreeholders , demands a more certa in education o fthe people as to the publ ic need for a bet ter and

l arger system o f higher learning. There fore , theal umni were to be cal led into the service o f bringing to the people this problem o f adequate highereducation in Ohio . Each man and woman, firstbecoming consecrated to the high purpose o f thecause , was to be a zealous m issioner o f ligh t andleading .This was the problem and th is the method o f

its so lution. But what I consider was o f evengreater significance was thi s : the conference broughtto both the al umni and the people a new approacht o the problem itse l f and so made the method o fi ts solution more certa in. What I mean i s thathereto fore the know ledge o f the financi a l and cdu cational needs o f the University have come upthrough the official channel s o f communicat ion,from the teacher to the dean, from the dean to thePres ident , from the President to the Trustees , fromthe Trustees to the Legisl ature . I shal l not stopto consider i f in coming up through these channe l sthese needs came to be in the end the true andabsolute needs o f the Universi ty . Even an o fficia lchanne l a s long as the one from campus foremanto the Legisl a ture is subject to the frail ties o f ou rpoor hum ani ty . What I desire to say is that th atsort o f official communication must necessarily beso o fficial in its character that i t never becomesunofficial , i t never reaches the common l i fe andconsciousness of the l ayman; that i t does not become a part o f the popul ar know ledge or demando f the people .Now i t i s a tri te but true saying that an in

telligent man does not fight for a thing which hedoe s not understand . As a matter o f fact we h avenot tried very hard to have ou r alumni understandwhat the Universi ty wanted or needed . Andwhen we have gone to them it has been w i th thesta tement , more or less indefini te , usual ly to theeffect that we ough t to have a lot more money forth is or the other need .

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Th i s conference proposed in effect that this longoffi cial channe l communicat ion shal l be diverted sothat i t shal l e i ther begin or end somewhere nearthe common interes t and sympathy and inte l l igenceo f the people , some o f whom are alumni and al lo f whom in the l as t analysis pay al l the publ icbi l l s o f expense . Al l o f which means that thepeople shal l first learn to understand ou r needsand the publ ic service which under l ies them , andsecond , they shall he lp to decide which o f theseneeds are real ly vi tal and urgent .This conference , there fore , marks a new oppor

tunity for service on the part o f ou r alumni, but its ignifies tha t thi s service shal l be co- operative inspiri t , democratic in i t s methods and popul ar in i t sapproach .

There i s another saying , quite as tri te and true ,as the one to which I have re ferred : al l l asting andpermanent things in a free country come up fromthe people . We have reached the period in thehistory o f higher education in Ohio when we mustreal ize that i f we are to have the great Universi tywh i ch we hope for we must bring her alumni andthe people o f the s ta te into ou r confidence andgive them the ful les t opportuni ty and freedom towork the ir wil l and purpose in her l i fe . We shal lgo far astray i f we set up for ou r University thesame s tandards o f control and the same me thodso f o ffici a l action as prevai l in privately endowedinst itutions . We must real i ze that ou r AlmaMater is the foster mother o f democracy ; thepeople have endowed her with the ir gi fts and evenas they have given they can take away . But i fthey shall be cal led to share the opportuni ty o fher service and come to see and know and bel ieveher dai ly measure o f need , they shal l a l so sharewil l ingly and generously in the burden o f her support .

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The Um p e ssatyP ERE E’SHDE NTW'ELLHA IM ©2‘SLE Y Tfi ©M PS©N

AM VERY HAPPY to have this informalmee ting , and I am very wil l ing to expla in howto get down to brass tacks . The president i s

the brass and Lowry Sater is the sharp point , andthese two put together make the brass tack .I may repeat my pleasure at the prospect o f a

series o f conferences o f this sort concerning thewel fare o f the University , because I real ize thatthe possibil i ty o f an intel l igent discussion among theal umni, the real friends o f the University everywhere , 'cannot do otherwise than increase and deveIOp interest in the Univers i ty and its work . Anything that brings tribute to the University must inthe end serve the best interests o f the University .So I am not at al l uneasy about the wide—spreadinformation that may go out , even though some o fit may be unpleasant to us in expressing undulyou r emphasis o f the needs .The deve l opment o f a great universi ty has , in

the h i s tory o f the wor ld , been a l ong process . Inthe history o f the United State s it has been a shortprocess . I t has taken a thousand years to deve lopAustri a and Ber l in and other European col leges .But i t has taken only a q uarter o f that time to develop Harvard , less in Yale and stil l less in Princeton and we are here in less than a hal f century inOhlo State . Most o f ou r sta te universit ies arewith in a hundred years— q ui te within a hundredyears . I th ink some time s in these days o f rapidtransi t and l arge vi sions we fai l to appreciate that ,in the first twenty - five years— say forty years—weare jus t in the commencement o f the history o f thi sinsti tution. We have made strides out o f proportion with ordinary institutions in the first hundredyears . I some times think that we are apt to losethe perspect ive o f the rel at ive pl ace o f this institut ion among the institut ions o f the country . I mayte l l you west o f us i t i s a matter o f great surpri sethe way Ohio State Universi ty has deve l oped , andpeople are not sl ow to speak o f i t .Two or three things . First o f al l the people o f

Ohio did not think we needed a university twentyyears ago , and i t i s ser iously debated whether weneed one now. The State had not ri sen to theconception o f a great and important State University . Moreover, there are 35 or 40 or 50 colleges in the commonweal th , every one o f whichcl aims i ts r ight to l ive and has i ts own const i tuency ,and seems to think i t can do a lot for the people in

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its community and outside . So the idea had notgotten into the consciences o f the people . Thepeople were not quite sure the University wouldnot ki l l off everything in the State .So I am in a mood to congratul a te the State o f

Ohio upon what it has accompl ished in these l argeand generous way s . I am not prepared to speako fficial ly on the Specific things on wh ich I thinkyou want me to speak , because the trustees for thefirst time in my memory fa iled to have a quorumthis morning through a m isunderstanding .The estimated resources

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for the / current yearending June 30, I9 I4—which i s ahead o f u sare That , in itse l f, i f you contrasti t w i th the fact that when the col lege was foundedand the public l ands given, it was assumed andtaken for granted that was al l it would ever needfor its future , and then the l aw was passed giv ingi t I can remember very we l l memberso f the legis lature saying this fixed the Universi tyfor al l time to come . Nobody in the State o fOh io fi fteen years ago dreamed o f an annual revenu e of for this insti tution. I hadhoped to see an annual revenue o f one and a hal fmi l l ion dol l ars be fore my time comes .When you start with this proposition there i s

another way o f measuring the University— i ts fundamental needs . When i t was located here theybough t 350 acres o f l and . They thought thatwas ample . I t l ooked i t. That real e s tate foundation is now between five and six hundred acres ,and we are qui te unsa ti sfied with that . We werea lit t le disappointed that the legisl ature did notgive us enough money to buy another piece o f l andon which we had an option. We need a realesta te foundation o f six or seven hundred acres ora l itt le more , because the future o f the col lege o fagricu l ture dem ands more ; the future needs o f theath let i c fie l d will demand more . The athlet ic fie l dwe have now wil l soon have to be removed . Asui tab le ath le ti c fiel d wil l req uire acres o f groundand a readjustment o f ou r athle t ic campus to makeroom for the out - door sports . The campus for ou rregiment “can be continued . The present regimentwith seven companies , embracing I5OOmen, i s ina condition o f things we wil l have to reckon with ,and i t takes a certain amount o f space to u se thesepeople , and we ough t to have a certain amount o fspace to devote to the ir act iv i t ies . I mention th i s

to show tha t rea l estate i s necessary for the Univers i ty.Recent ly a number o f us took a trip through

the northwest . We found that Wi sconsin i s buying more for their campus ; Minnesota has boughtmore ; the Universi ty o f Ch i cago bough t 25 6 acresa t a thousand dol l ars , and it already had 800 acresin its campus . And Nebraska has bough t more .The people o f Ohio State Universi ty have to

have a vis ion o f more l and , more than we have , afoundat ion upon which the Univers i ty can l ive andprosper. We wil l have to get away from theconception o f a block or two , because the modern

education demands more l and . We think the aoq u isition o f l and is one o f the vi tal and fundamenta l things of the Universi ty a t l arge.From the standpoint o f ou r Univers i ty , let me

remind you the progress tha t i s indicated by thatfact . The 300 acre s then thought to be ample i snot ample . We occupy that . The very groundon wh ich th i s bui lding i s was a cow pasture . Weu se thi s pasture field for other purposes . We havedone the same thing with ou r real esta te . In otherwords , the growth o f the Universi ty i s indicated bythe fact that we have overreached ou r foundationand reached condi tions where we wil l have to havemore real estate i f we cont inue ou r growth .

On the o ther hand , thi s growth we have had hasbeen characterized by certa in changes o f thecampus . F or instance , when we bui l t Oxley Hal lwe had a conception o f a greater bui lding forwomen. We are not trying to encroach upon tha tl and . We hope some day we wil l be able toreal ize that . Over the ravine we have anotherbui ld ing . We have another row ru fl ning from Nei lAvenue clear through so that i t wil l be a handsomeavenue running from Nei l Avenue through thatwest end clear through to the other streets . Thechanges that have taken pl ace al l over the campusi s due to the l arge concep t ion o f the Universi ty .We in al l have sixty bui ldings . Whe ther we wil lreach one hundred I do not know . That doesn’ tincl ude the col lege o f medicine . But we have gotthat conception o f a t least sixty bui ldings to go onthis campus . Every buil ding occupie s ground , andi t wil l take more ground i f we carry out the wholefoundation o f the University and the Universi typl an. When you think about i t , we have beeneconomical .I was very much pleased , however, when I re

turned from the northwest in thi s one th ing , andth ink i t can be demonstrated from the amount o fmoney expended in ou r buil dings , we have been

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very economical . Let me cal l the rol l . The firstbui lding I want to Speak about i s the l aw bui lding.I say for bui lding and equipping , andputting i t into operation, is certainly not an extravagant proposi t ion. We recent ly put the State boardo f heal th in there.The Physics bui lding, which i s now soon to

have one o f i ts wings put on, — a veryexce l lent bui lding . Those were the first two bui ldings bui l t in my admini stration.

B rown Hal l for Civi l Engineer ing and Architecture came wi th in the sum o f No repairs except cleaning the wal l s s ince construction.Then ou r mechani ca l and engineer ing labora

tory, Orton Hal l , cost I t i s one o f thevery excel lent engineering l aborator ies in the country , and other inst i tutions that come here s ay thatwe have beaten them in the amount o f money thatwe expended in constructing and equipping thisbuild ing .“

The agri cul tural bui ldings— three o f them— costa modest sum o f money . The only mis

take made there was there was not quite enou g hmoney to bui ld a l i t tle l arger, so we fee l now themistake there was the mistake in not get ting enoughmoney .

The Veter inary l aboratory , a very l arge bui lding, which cost and has been bui l t tenyears .

Oxley Ha l l i s a bui lding that has not onlyproved i tsel f righ t, but mainta ined i tse l f from thet ime i t was bui l t , and has devel oped a surplus o f

and paid all i t s own l ight and heat . Andthat has been in no sense the work o f the State,but what the we l l trained women in science cando in the admini s trati on o f the bui lding . I daresay Oxley Hal l i s the bes t operated hal l for womenthat can be found on ou r cont inent . I t i s there,and the figures wil l demonstrate what I say. Thething wil l speak for i tsel f.

Thi s Ohio Union buil ding cos t $75 000, andI don't know where we 'coul d put to better advantage . Thi s bui lding has been in continuou s u se ever s ince i t s comp le tion.Now the botan and sociol ogy bui ldings are a

l i tt le higher in price, $ I25 ,000 and $ I50.000.These four departments wi l l occupv those bui ldings , and those four department s wi l l be equippedand ready for service , and they wil l be so wellequipped , i f we don

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t want you to fee l tha t th at i sthe supreme need o f the inst i tution, because my ownj udgment o f the supreme need i s money for sal aries .

This i s the current budge t for the year, not substantially but in round numbers . Here i s a budge to f what they cal l the operating budge tThe difference i s what we spend for the improvement o f grounds . That operating budge t o f

ough t to at once go to Thatadditional ough t to go to the paymento f sal aries in order to pay reasonable s al aries andmake a provision for su fficient teachers . Takesome o f ou r cl asses . We are teach ing twice asmany as a high school . Ou r equipment i s not upto some high school s . We haven’ t much moreequipment than we had ten years ago. When youcompare that equipment with a number o f highschool s

, ou r physical equipment is not at al l comparable. I recogni ze ou r teachers are superior, butthe tool s are not the same ; j ust as shops in PageHal l are out o f date . What we need i s to putou r supreme emphasis on the importance o f get t ingthe men and women we need and re ta in them inthe matter o f sal aries , because men make universities , but universi t ies don

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t see yoursa l aries because you put i t into. your pocket s andspend it . He wil l pay for a building because hecan see i t but he would not pay for a pro fessor .We must put forth ou r e fforts to keep these goodus a long time and we are proud o f i t , but youwant to keep thi s in mind that , in thi s , the twent iethcentury, there i s a grea t demand by the col legesfor good men. I re fer to the pro fe ssor becausethe demand i s so great and the demand wil l bestronger in the next ten years than i t ha s been.Now , in addit ion to th is general a’ction, let me

see : We have been operating the agricul tura l college for seven or ei ght years . We al so come underthe federal g overnment . The budget commissionmade a mi stake o f $ I 5 ,000 in ou r favor . I amgl ad i t did not go the other way . We have

to spend in the direct ion we have beengoing .Now , the University has had i ts problems with

o t her extension ideas . The general theory o f theUniversity extension was prov ided for by the legi slatu re l a st winter . A provi sion was made for anexperiment s tation. No money has been appro

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priated for tha t purpose . In other words , the Universi ty has used the money i t has had , I think ,without any serious criticism . The money that theUniversi ty has had has been economical ly spent ,and I am proud to say tha t, in the adminis trationo f the affairs o f the University , not one penny hasbeen fraudulent ly expended or unaccounted for.That fact ough t to be an encouragement to thebody o f the a lumni . They can say that this institu tion has spent i ts money honestly , conscientiou sly and effective ly , and the only cri t icism thatcan be made i s not what i t had but what i t has nothad and has done . You wil l find al l the cri t i ci smo f this institution is what you are not doing because you have not go t i t .Now the opportuni ty for education i s univer

sal ly wide. I don’

t want the State to do everything we want i t to do because we are not ready.What I should l ike to see i s a s teady devel opmento f the University along l ines tha t wil l increase i t spower for good and wil l bring back the frui t to theState a fter the tree i s pl anted . I don’ t want anyboom for Ohi o S tate Universi ty , but I want natural ,normal growth . We have grown too rapidly, inmy judgment . This i s the spiri t o f the complaintthat we have had . Ou r prosperi ty has been ou rdistres s .We h aven’ t gone out and sought a fter students .They have come without i t . What we have beendoing al l the t ime was using ou r money to the bestpossible advantage to the upl i ft o f the insti tution.I think the disposi t ion o f the State o f Oh io is tol ook upon the Univers i ty as a great bi g enterpri se .I th ink it i s for us to show i ts real bigness .There are some th ings we speak o f in ou r own

circles w ith modesty . F or example , somebodywanted to make an investi ga tion about s tudentaffa irs . The Uni ted States authori t ies say the bestoffice for regi stering students i s the Ohio StateUniversity , but I supposed Mrs. Scott was runningthat , not the alumni . When the United Statescame in to inve sti gate they found i t the best o f a l l .Mr. Steeb had been working a t thi s finance, andI tol d him the thing to do was to keep ahead o fthe procession. We l l , when they ‘came to investigate th is institution they found Wi sconsin, Chicago ,Michi gan and I l l inois could come to the o ffice o fthe Oh io State Universi ty and find out how to keepaccounts , and when we publ i shed i t , i t was commented on the Uni ted States over. We say without hesi tation the accounts o i the Ohio Sta te Univers i ty are beyond cri tici sm for their e fficiency andaccuracy . I t i s done at less cost than anywhere

we know o f . Now , the Auditor o f State is veryanxious to have things s traight . Now when hecame to see what is actual ly going on in the Univers i ty , he honestly said , I am amazed at whatis be ing done and the smal l amount 1t costs to do it .From the s tandpoint o f the administration, I wouldbe glad if you have the time to spare to have youveri fy what I say .In speaking o f the

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University in this day , I hopethat nobody wil l fail to see that , in th is forty yearsand part i cularly in the l as t five years , the growthof the University has been carried righ t along . Wehave made a decent deve l opment . Don

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t let anyalumnus come on this campus and say the Presidentand trustees are satisfied with i t ; tha t we havereached ou r ideal s . I t i s not true, i f you ever wentth rough the experience I have o f making a budget .We have never reached that .So I congratul ate th i s convent ion today and

years to come, because we would l ike to have yougo into a discussion and inves tigation as to what

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and comprehensive presenta tion o f the needsof the Univers i ty has cared so s atis factori ly

for the col lege o f arts , philosophy and science thatI need do very lit t le more than repeat specifical lyone or two of the recommendations that he madeamong others in his address . I wil l s ta te as deanof the col lege of arts , phil osophy and science Ishould find it nearly as difficul t a matter as ou rPresident finds it to choose from that l i st o f buildings the one for which the alumni should workmost heartily . The one which I should be ableto decide in about two seconds that the bui ldingsmost needed on the campus a t the present t ime forboth the young m en and women and for memberso f the facul ty too i s a reci tation building to takecare principal ly of the elementary

' instru ction thati s given by way o f ordinary cl ass room recit ations .

I proved al l this to the satis faction of the President

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has been done . I f you can’ t find any mistakes , Iwil l show them to you . We have got more m istakes than we need to have , perhaps . We havewhat other ins ti tut ions have

,mistakes . Notwith

standing that, we are ge t ting be tter and better everyday . We are glad the State has come to ou rrescue .I t would be interes ting to see what ou r appro

priation was . The l ast legis l ature adjourned anda new legi sl ature was cal led , and they made a newb il l and they gave us more . They neverhave gotten toge ther wi thout giv ing us‘ more in thefi fteen years I have been here . Next January theywil l give us more , and i f this alumniorgani z ation could go out into the State o f Ohioand show that thi s money should be given generou sly and give the reason for it, that we want tomaintain ou r facul ty and then comple te this pl antfor the sake of the boys and girl s o f the State , therewould not be any trouble to get the money .

four times four years in success ion. I have beensure the col lege o f arts , ph i losophy and sciencewould have that buil ding for reci ta tion purposes,but other needs have intervened to prevent i t , th ingsbeyond anybody ’ s control . And I have proved tothe Presdent

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s sati s faction in th i s way , by sayingthat the principle , or a t least one o f the rul ing principles, that should be outside the se lection fromthis one mil lion dol l ar l is t , would be the greatestgood .Now

,i f you get a buil ding big enough for reci

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to do more good tothe greatest number o f students . F or many o f ou rstudents , as the President has said , are in inadequate and unwholesome quarters . Look about youhere . We have the great buildings constructedfor Specific purposes . We have for ins tanceTownshend Hal l . Nobody on this campus would

dispute the statement that the department s inTownshend Hal l can care for the recita tion roomneeds for the students in their department . Lookat the great chemistry buil ding . That was l arge lybui l t with l aboratory needs in their mind , but thechemi stry department has to look e l sewhere for i tscl ass rooms and recitation rooms .Look at the building for biology . There never

has been a time when the biology building couldprovide the reci ta tion and cl a ss rooms for the elementary instruction o f its own s tudent s .So you go al l around to the bui ldings no

cri t ici sm in this . I t would be absolu tely impossibleon the appropriations that have been made for thesepeople to prov ide more than has been provided forlecture room or l aboratory . Laboratory requirement s , the speci al building comes first .Take biology . The curriculum o f the depart

ment o f biol ogy cal l s for a certain amount o f instruction in Engl ish , in the l anguages , in mathematies , but the b iological buildings that are buil tfor the specific purposes o f bio logical departmentsdo not contain rec itation rooms enough to providethe biological s tudents w i th the elementary and fundamental instruction, and for that purpose a largerecita tion building i s necessary . The same thingis true o f the col lege o f agri cul ture. You look atthe curriculum o f the col lege o f agricul ture and youwi l l find o f its req uired studies , abou t two - fifthsmust be taugh t in department s tha t are qual ified ino ther col leges , and, there fore , the cl aim i s for roome l sewhere .Reci tation rooms are not forthcoming in the

pl aces where the work is absol ute ly req uired .Now , then, th i s need i s so general and so l ackingin Spectacul ar and advert i sing appeal , that i t i sq ui te l ikely to be overl ooked by the legisl a ture .You can

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t go to a legis l ature and make so specific a demand for a genera l c l ass room buil ding ,a l arge school house you might cal l .Nevertheless the need is there , and i t i s there

not particularly for the col lege of arts but al l theother col leges . I am not saying that any o f thesebuil dings should 'contain reci ta tion rooms enoughfor their own instruction. May be that i s not theway to build them . I am saying that somewhereon th is campus that needs for the construction o f abuil ding where elementary instruction could begiven should be l ooked a fter, and that i s what thearts col lege is most interested in.I al so wi sh to second the motion o f the Presi

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osophy and science , as I am sure i t i s in othercol leges , too . According to the figures that werefurni shed to m e by the President not very longago— by the bursar not very long ago— the college o f arts is down in the l ist for this coming yearfor $ I20,000, something more . That is about

less th an was distributed to the departmentin the budget o f the col lege o f arts , ph i l osophy andsc ience l a st year. I went over the whole matterwith the President o f the University night be forel ast and he agreed wit-hme that in order to do whatough t to be done in the col l ege o f arts , ph i losophyand science at the present t ime in the matter o fsal aries that should be instead of $ I20,000 forthe coming year i t should be $ I The college o f arts , phi losophy and sc ience needs that atthe pre sent time in order to carry on the fundamenta l work in which it i s engaged ; in order thatwe may break up these l arge sect ions in smal lersections , in order that we may increase the competency o f the teaching sta ff , in order that we mayreward men who have done val uable service inyears gone by and in order to bring in other menwho are needed for new chairs and addit ional positions here in old departments , that we should havefor next year more than has been appropriated to us , and of course since the legisl aturehas not appropri ated it, you gent lemen w il l rai seit here this a fternoon be fore you leave . (Laughter)But there are other— as the President has a l so

said— there are other and higher needs than bui ldings and money . We o ften tal k abou t the assumption o f real leadersh ip in th i s State in educationalmatters on the part o f Ohio State University . Iam proud to say , as the President has a l ready int imated , tha t we have that leadership here in asl arge a proportion as you wil l find i t in any stateuniversi ty in the l and . I know whereo f I am talking. I know that out o f this university came thefirst impul se for higher educational requirementsfor admission to the sta te universi ties in the west .President Canfield and I he l ped to organize theNorth Central Association o f Col leges and secondary school s more than e ighteen years ago , andtha t organi zation that began a t the NorthwesternUniversity has been a fighting force in the way o fe levating req uirements in the way o f admission tothe university . We were l ike other sta te univers ities , we were be l ow standard requirements , and weal l fe l t that no one s ta te institution could go aheadon its own accord and dis tinguish itse l f by makingi tsel f the leader in the matter of requirements from

its students , and there fore , they were a l l broughttogether and convinced o f the need . I t was theOhio State University that started that movementfor h igher req uirements in the matter o f admission,and for the l ast eighteen years we have had admission requirement s that were as good as any in thel and , and fol lowing the col lege o f arts in al l theuniversi ties , practical ly , the col lege s o f engineeringhave come up to the same standard , which theydid not have be fore in the matter o f admissions ,and ou r engineering department on this campuswas the firs t to lead off. F or years it had higheradmission requirements than the University o fI l l inois . (Applause). The col lege s o f agricul turehave al so fo l lowed suit and we have now come tothe I5 uni ts .We have not been w i thout ou r influence either

in the East . I know that we have carried to someo f the Eastern insti tutions many o f the s trides onwhich they have added the ir new movement .We were the first col lege o f arts , philosophy andsc ience in thi s country to regard the high schoolcourse and col lege course o f the student as oneeducational unit and to make the work of the firs ttwo years in col lege contingent upon what hadbeen accomplished in the four years o f the highschool and we did that not five years ago . Now ,then thi s fal l it becomes necessary to do that th ingby reason o f legis l ation, which says that the col legeo f art s in th i s s ta te must herea fter receive everygraduate o f a first grade high school who presentsI5 uni t s ofwork . And what are we going to doabout that ? I f the ingredient s o f h i s previouseducation needs supplementing , al l we shal l haveto do i s to cont inu e what we have been doing . I fhe has had as much l anguage in h i s high school aswe think he ough t to have , we wil l not give h imany more l anguage , but we wil l give him what heneeds and supplement his previous course.There is another movement in this country in

wh i ch we have parti cipated , and that is a movement for encouraging ou r best h i gh school s to keepthe ir freshmen at home and give them a fi fth yearat home , which they can do without even adding tothe force o f teachers in many case s , instead o fsending them to the University to fi l l ou r freshmencl ass rooms .These are some o f the things we have contributed in a general way and I think we have fulfi l led the function o i an arts , phil osophy and sciencecol lege in a universi ty so far as that educationalaspect is concerned .

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Now there are other things besides these material needs . As I conceive it , it is the function o fa col lege o f arts , philosophy and science , withoutd isparagement o f the exce l lent work o f the othercol leges on the same campus , to provide the general education that is necessary for al l . As I lookat it, the day has gone by in th is country when apro fessional school of high standing can afford anyl onger to base its work upon the high school directlywithout the intermediate assistance o f one year ortwo years more o f the work in general education.I bel ieve tha t it wil l not be many years be fore weshal l be doing as o ther sta te universities wil l bedoing al so , turning their engineering col legeand agricul tura l col lege into pure ly pro fessionalschool s . We cannot be a pioneer in th at fie ld

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we have been in some others , because the University o f M issouri i s ahead o f us . You may saywhat is there to gain? Why not make a unit system , as they cal l i t among the big manu facturerso f the country ? We l l , the unit system means thatevery col lege on the university campus bases i tswork on a high school course ; that i t has as manydepartments o f chemistry as i t has col leges inwhose curriculum chemistry is required , and so on.But by so doing i t makes each col lege endeavorto per form two funct ions , two functions that cannot be we l l per formed by the same set o f men. I tmakes the col lege o f engineering , for instance , profess to give a type o f education in i ts four yearsthat provides sufficient ly for the cul ture demands o fthe age , and al so in that four years to provide forthe proficiency o f the engineer.Now then, what effect has that upon the stu

dent ? Why , as the pro fessional demands of engineering increase , the col lege does the naturalth ing , and begins to e l iminate and direct this andthat and the other e lement o f a l l cul ture val ue ini ts course . And furthermore , what effect has thatupon the facul ty ? I think nobody would disputethat to demand o f a man that he shal l be at oneand the same titr e a great pro fessional engineer anda school o fficer i s asking more than you wil l beable to get . and when you ask a man who is abig man in his pro fession to master the pedagogicso f e lementary material and to face l aw studentswho are not ready and trained for h i s advancedwork , you are putting upon him a duty which distracts his attention from h i s great pro fess ional interest and making the poor man bel ieve he i s l acking some t hing because of pedagogy .Those of us who were here twenty years ago

know that the l a t e Pro fessor Robinson was not

greagym nygfsant w ith the pedagogic principles o fc lass room teach ing , and yet there is not one o f hisold students who would not raise and hol d up hishand to Heaven and swear there was one o f thebest teachers in the United States . One o f h i s o lds tudent s from Clevel and told m e not l ong ago that

he dropped a fine paying posit ion in which he wasengaged and came down here and went into Pro

fessor Robinson's l aboratory for nothing , to spendanother year in his presence where he could getoccasiona l suggestion and hel p from him .

The pro fessional idea i s going to be supreme in

ou r pro fessional school , and i t i s onl y a q uestiono f time when those school s wil l be based not directly upon the high school but upon primary culture and science and mathematics , as the professional col lege in engineering , in l aw or medicine ,whatever it may be , demands necessary for thesuccess ful pursu it s o f i ts stri c tl y pro fessional work .

And when that t ime i s reached many o f the vexingintercol legiate q uestions that ari se among us wi l lhave entirel y disappeared o f the ir own accord .There wil l be nothing l e ft o f them .I am gl ad to hear the dean o f the col lege o f

l aw say that , beginning with I9 I5 , there wil l bea primary amount o f work in the col lege o f artsrequired o f everybody who goe s into the col lege o fl aw , excepting the few special s tudents .Now , I have mentioned these other col leges not

that I have cri t ici sm to make o f what they havedone in the past or in the present , but mere ly toshow what I deem to be the true field o f the college o f art s , phil osophy and science . One o f i tsbiggest functions i s to provide the necessary preparation for admission to these higher scient ific andpro fes sional school s j ust as soon as they rid themselves of the elementary and fundamental workwhich they are now trying to do at the expenseo f their tru lv pro fessional vocation. That i s theonly reason I ment ion i t a t al l .As I can conce ive o f i t , i t i s the function o f a

col lege o f arts , philo sophy and science to do thatgenera l educationa l work , and as I say tha t workhas gone far in one o f ou r great state universit ies .There has never been in thi s country a grea t university in which the col lege o f arts , phi losophy andscience has not the biggest col lege , the most important col lege and the most variety o f know ledge .John Hopk ins universi ty started out to make i tsel fa great graduate school , but i t had not been running very many years be fore i t pu t right under thatgraduate school a col lege o f art s , phil osophy andscience . The Union Col lege o f Law which once

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stood by i tse l f, and in the early hi story o f NewYork provided some o f the great l awyers o f theland , you hear noth ing o f it any more . And whynot? Because an i sol ated col lege o f l aw detachedfrom a close connection with a col lege o f arts , philosophy and science has no proper feeders . Andyou know what is happening in Madison. Thewhole cl ass o f minor col leges are attaching themse lves to a univers i ty in which they can be fed bythe properly prepared material . The same thingwas true o f Cl ark Universi ty . With a flourish o ftrumpets Cl ark University set ou t to dispense entirely wi th primary education. That was to 'bedone a l l over the Uni ted States and without re ference to Cl ark Universi ty . But within the l a st fewyears Cl ark Univers i ty has establ i shed in connectionwith i t a col lege o f arts , phil osophy and science.I al so mention a l ater instance o f another kind , thecase o f the Massachuse t t s Insti tute o f Technology ,which stood by i tsel f many years , but i t , withinthe l ast year, has been incorporated in HarvardUniversi ty .

Now , you can not have a great graduate school ,e i ther, without a col lege o f art s , phi l osophy andsc ience . There never has been one and never wil lbe one o f that sort . I t i s ab so l u tel y impossible ,because in the high grades o f any graduate workyou have certa in fixed courses for s tudy . Youcan

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t o ften distingui sh be tween a senior and

graduate student— somet imes the senior i s the bestl ooking fel l ow . Bu t you can hel p the graduateschool by doing i t for i t . We have had ou r cl ientsin this universi ty, as in other universi tie s . in whichwe have tried to run two or three systems at thesame moment . I don’ t know o f one single institution in thi s country— a sta te universitv— that i stoday running on the organi c sy stem— the university system which I have tried to describe . Youw i l l , perhaps , say these are problems for the facu lty and officers internal ly o f the universi ty todecide . They are not so easy to decide a s theyshould be always and without a publ ic sent iment ,a publ ic sent iment which will demand highstandards . I t i s not because I am in the col lege o farts that I say this , but I say i t a s a matter o f fact ,and I do not be l ieve the sta tement 'wi l l be disputedthat the educational standard o f this country andthe educa tional standard o f the western states gen

erally are now maintained where they are by thecol leges o f arts , philosophy and science o f thesta te universit ies . I don

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t be l ieve that statementcan be controverted .

We ought to have a pro fessor of music in thisinsti tution. You l is tened thi s a fternoon to thesegirl s singing , and if they can do that thing by theirpractical ly unaided efforts here and by the voluntary he l p o f their friends , what migh t be done in asystematic way in th is university by a pro fessor o fmusic , not that we expect to turn out pro fessionals ingers or piano players , not at all. But it oughtto be the function o f that pro fessor to do for musicprecise ly what the l a te Pro fessor Josiah RenickSmith did for the his tory o f Greek art He oughtto be a man“ who would not only encourage musicamong his s tudents , but a manwho "could encouragegreat interest in al l who come to hi s cl asses . I donot suppose ou r legisl a ture would make any morefuss about a musical department , if one should beestabl ished , than the legi sl a ture did twenty - fiveyears ago . At a time when everybody was a fraido f tha t insti tut ion M ichigan e stabl i shed a department o f music .We need al so a l arger conception of the finearts , and I think that l arger conception i s going tobe establ i shed in thi s insti tut ion and furnishedthrough the e fforts o f ou r President be fore theexpiration o f another year . I am happy to saythat the finer th ings o f the institu tionr which youwant every student to come into contact with , are

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I have been interested in what Denney has hadto say , as to the general trend or tendency o fpro fessional education in re l a tion to the l iberaleducation of the arts col lege and I am in substantia l accord with the View that he expressed to youupon that subject .I t has seemed to me for some years past that

it is a mis fortune tha t the exigencies o f the modernindustri a l l i fe make it seem necessary to educa te aman and make an engineer o f him in one process .I t i s not the ideal way .I have always fe l t that engineering i s a pro

fession rather than an art , and i f it i s a pro fe ssion,then the preparation for i t should be put upon thefoundation o f a good general education. I st i l lfeel that way . I t is impossible , however , at thepresent t ime to make such a demand effective .

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be ing looked a fter in this institution by the president and the h i gher authori t ies o f the insti tution.They have these th ings a t heart, but what thealumni can do is to uphold their hands , and i f yoube l ieve in music , paint ing and l andscape drawingand other fine arts , let us have some apos tle o f thatkind , and le t us al l work to that end. Let us bringou r boys and girl s in contact with these fine things .We are working now in the col lege o f arts notso much for quant i ty as quality . I recognize i ti s ou r first duty to furnish the average man whocome s to u s— ou r firs t duty to at tend to the immediate needs of the average man and woman, butwe have al so the new conception, too , that i t i s ou rsecond duty to find out the people with gi fts andattend to them also , especi al ly , and deve l op ineach one and he l p each one to deve l op in himse l fthe fine things with which he has been especial lyendowed ; and, to that end, we are about to mod ifythe

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system , a modificat ion which wil l not discourage anybody , but which wil l put honor wherehonor be l ongs .I beg your pardon for speaking so long upon

this q uestion, and mentioning the names o f othercol leges . The other deans are my friends andknow how I talk . They don’ t care five cents aboutwhat I have said .

The young m en who come to get an engineeringeducation as a rule take a very prosaic or sordidView o f i t . They look upon i t in a very practicalway

,as a source o f l ive l ihood— as a means to a

“job .” Their idea o f engineering i s strictly a

bread and butter idea . They come here expectingto be made compe tent to go out and practicecertain arts : they look upon the ir degree virtual lyas a l icense and they begrudge any time or effortthat is required o f them which does not lead directly to the practice o f that art or in wh i ch thepractical connection with that art i s not pre t tyclear

extent . Neverthe less , I do not be l ieve that a t thepresent time it would be a feasible thing for us toput adm ission to ou r engineering courses on a professional basis , and demand two years or moreo f arts work as a prerequisite . So far we aredoing j ust what most other engineering school s aredoing , viz . , making ou r work concurrent with thel iberal education, and not superimposing it upon al iberal education. We are trying to educate m enand train them at the same time in one and thes ame operation. I be l ieve we are doing so wi thsuccess . I am moved to that be l ie f by the factthat the engineer rece ives a great deal of cul turalbenefi t from the exacting nature o f the work required for his degree . I think perhaps that thesesame subjects , which are studied by both engineersand arts s tudents , may have some added educational val ue to the engineer from the very intensi tyw ith which he must apply himse l f to them . Anengineer must and doe s app reci ate that h i s know ledge must be accurate and specific and exact todo him any good , and the cul tural valu e fromalmost any sub ject we l l mastered is much morethan for a smattering and inexact know ledge ofseveral th ings .I t i s not possible in the Engineering Col lege to

procl aim any very large growth . As for myse l f ,I am very gl ad it isn’ t . We are growing as fasta s we need to grow . Four years ago we had 900engineers ; in I9 I0, 84 ] in I9 I I , 783 ; in I9 I2 ,it dropped to 787 , and this fal l ( I9 I3) it cameback to 876. I t is now only some th irty or fortyfeet be l ow the prev ious high mark . Whe ther thi sl it tle depression in the grow th curve means anythingor not , I do not know . A l l over the country everycol lege of engineering o f wh ich we had datashowed a simil ar influence at work . Some showedless l oss , and some tw ice as much as ours . I feeltha t i t i s a temporary si tuation.I think I can say for the whole facul ty o f the

Col lege o f Engineering that we look upon thegrowth and prosperity o f the col lege o f agri cul turewith pride and enthusiasm . We al l know that agricul ture needs scientific devel opment and wil l needit for a long time to come to bring i t u p to itsproper pl ane . I t i s not necessary or desirableth at engineers should be produced in as greatnumbers a s farmers . The engineer i s necessari ly atechnical man, and one engineer i s able to m inis ter to the technical needs o f q ui te a number o fpeople : that is, the number o f engineers per capi taneed never be l arge . That cannot be so o f thosewho produce ou r food . Their number must in

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crease , and their effi ciency must s til l more increaseuntil the farmer appl ies to his task , the scientificaccuracy and practical intel l igence of those whoare now pioneers in the teaching o f this subject .I am entire ly Optimistic as to the growth o f theEngineering Col lege . We do not want to growtoo fast . The whole question w ith us i s to doou r work as we l l as we need to do i t .

Now on the matter o f the budget : In thisinst i tut ion i t so happens tha t there are ass igned tothe managem ent o f Col lege o f Engineering a l argernumber o f department s , incl uding several o f thel arges t department s in the University . The appropriation upon which we are instructed to prepare ou r budget i s approximate ly $I Thati s much too smal l a sum . However, we wil l haveto l ive upon i t , and we shal l . I t w i l l not permitany extensions or permit the growth which wegreatly need to make in certa in directions— but itwil l perm it us to give a good , v igorous year

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s workto the students who may come to us . I do notthink there wil l be any sensible let—down in thequality . I t i s a disappointment , o f course , forwe al l see many opportuni t ies for use fulness o fwhich we cannot take advantage , and emergenciesto wh i ch we cannot rise w i th th i s appropri ation.But we shal l hope to be j udged by what we dowith what we have , rather than by what we doo f what need to be done .

On the matter o f buildings , there is much thatcould be sa id . I was unfortunate in not hearingDr. Thompson’ s speech . I did hear whatDean Denney sa id . I bel ieve , in a general waythat peop le on the campus would agree to mosto f what he said . They certainl y would , as representing urgent needs o f the Ar ts Col lege . When i tcomes to re l a t ive urgency of these needs and otherswhich he did not mention there migh t be differencesof opinion.

The needs o f the Col lege o f Engineering in theway o f bui ldings are urgent in three direct ions justnow . One i s the matter o f the chem ical l aboratory .The greatest pressure there i s for facil i ties forhandl ing the l arge freshman cl asse s , the foundati on course in chemistry for all col leges . I havegiven up mysel f one o f my l aborator ies in orderto make room for forty chemical s tudents in LordHal l . The work in anal y t i cal chemistry i s al sovery crowded . A chemical bui lding of eq ual sizeas the present must at a very early date he buil t .The overflow we now have would fi l l i t by thetime it was bui l t .

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APPRECIATE this opportunity oi sayingsomething o f recent deve l opments in the College o f Agricul ture and ou r hope s for the

future .I wonder how many o f you real ize how rap

id ly ou r Col lege o f Agricul ture has been growingin recent years . Out o f 844 increase in ou r undergradu ate enro l lment since 1609 , 759 havebeen in the Col lege o f Agricul ture and 85 ina l l o ther col leges o f the University . This yearthe enrol lment is 125 1 . Add to this 200 whowere enrol led in the e igh t weeks ’ Winter Courseand we have a total enrol lment o f be tween 1400and 1500 in thi s one col lege alone. Let the present rate o f increase keep up for the next five yearsand there wil l be an enrol lment o f over 3000 inthe Col lege o f Agricul ture alone .So rapidly i s the Col lege o f Agri cul ture grow

ing tha t on the part o f some there i s a fear tha tthe Univers i ty i s growing into a

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and that there i s danger o f agricul ture overshadowing al l o ther interests .There are farms in Ohio and when

we have one s tudent for every 100 farms therewil l be 2 720 students in the col lege, and to thi sthe ever increasing number who come from theci ties ( thi s year 4 4 per cent o f the entering cl ass)and the registration wil l be at least 5000.In reaching the farmers o f Ohio and educating

the boys and girl s o f ou r farms , the col lege i s onlyin i t s infancy . I see no ass ignable limit to thegrow th in this col lege . Agricul ture i s popul ar withal l cl asses . The increased value o f food products ,the active interest o f ou r s ta te and national governments in deve l oping ou r agricul tural resources ,has given an impetus to agri cul tural educat ion thati s bringing students into the agri cul tural col leges bythe hundreds where they formerly came by tens .What has been the resul t ? Just what migh t

be expected . We are crowded , congested , overrun. Instructors attempting to teach cl a sses o f100, 150 and in. some cases over 200 that oughtto be in sections o f not over 30 or 40. We havebeen cri t i cized , and j ustly so , for employing toomany young instructors and too many o f ou r owngraduates . The l imiting factor has been thebudget . You cannot make bricks w i thout straw .While the enrol lment in the past five years hasincreased 160 per cent , the budge t for instruction

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has increased only 37 per cent .I have been connected with the teach ing force

o f three o f the leading agricul tura l col leges o f thecountry and I know personal ly many o f the instructional force o f most o f the agricul tural colleges o f the north , central and eastern sta tes , and,in compari son, ou r own facul ty certa inly needs noapology or de fense, and yet ou r sa l aries have remained so low that there i s scarcely a man in ou rfacul ty who has not made a financial sacrifice tostay . I know o f two heads o f departments in ou rcol lege at the present t ime who have offers o f overtwice the sal ary they are now receiving .The greatest need of the College ofAgricu lture

at the present time is instru c tional force to takecare of ou r ever- increasing enrollment.There are a few important events o f the past

year affect ing the Col lege o f Agri cul ture o f whichI wish to speak br iefly . The State Agricul turalCommission has been establ i shed to have chargeo f the agricu l tural agencies o f the State . The actprovides th at the Dean o f the Col lege o f Agricul ture shal l be a member o f the Commission andthe Col lege i s thus brought into close rel a tionshipto the other st a te agencies . Wi th a l l o f the Stateagricu l tural interest s working together and in perfee t harmony , the prospects for the Col lege o fAgr i cul ture have never been a s bri gh t as they areat present . Without doubt some adjustment wi l lhave to be made and possibly some addit ional legislation enacted .I have no doubt that the support and activi ty

o f the Agri cul tural Commission, through i ts varions agencies , wil l very greatly increase the enrollment in the col lege .Thi s pas t year, through the good offices o f the

Agricul tural Commission, the buildings on theSta te Fair Grounds were pu t a t the services o f theagri cul tural col lege for holding the Winter Coursesand two hundred student s were given instructionin them during January and February .I t is probabl e that the u se o f these buildings for

thi s purpose w i l l become permanent and i t wi l lprove a very we l come rel ie f to the present overcrowded condi tion o f ou r buil dings on the campus .A change has been made in the curricul a o f the

Col lege this year tha t I bel ieve wil l mark a newera in ou r short course work . The two - yearcourse s in agri cu l ture and hort i cul ture that in the

past have had the same length o f school year asthe other courses o f the University , have beenchanged to three - year courses and wil l begin October I 5 and close March 15 of each year , thusenabl ing the farm boys to be at home during thegrowing season.The change is mee ting with enthusiastic ap

proval o f every one .

The Board o f Trustees have establ ished a system o f free schol arships for these short courses ,assigning one to each county , to be awarded under rules and regula tions o f the Agricul tural Comm