Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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ments for pressing needs and proper expansion. It is a matter for rejoicing that the Library is to have increased appropriations for books, during the next few years. Through the efforts of the Association of Land Grant Col- leges, in which Captain Cope is a prominent officer, this Univer- sity and other land grant institutions, will retain the income from the Federal Government accruing from the proceeds from the sale of public lands. The passage of a measure by Congress which would have wiped out this source of income has been pre- vented and the interests of the University have been thus con- served. The prospects seem bright also for the passage of a measure by Congress, giving 320,000 to 525,000 a year for the benefit of a School of Mines in each state. There is believed to be a more cordial feeling towards the University by the high school men of the state than has existed for several years. Methods of communication with High Schools sending students to the University have been improved and opportunities for misunderstanding have been thereby lessened. Likewise with the colleges of the state, a better understanding seems to have been reached and no cause for grievance is known to exist, either on their part, or on the part of the University. Whether justly or unjustly, during the last few years the Uni- versity canie to be suspected, by some of the high schools and colleges, of attempting to assume powers not conferred by statute. This suspicion was natural. It was an incidental result of vigor- ous measures undertaken with a view to correlating the parts of Ohio's educational system. The process was unpleasant, but, on the whole, was salutary. The O. S. U. occupies a better position to-day in the educational scheme by reason of the agitation 5 it is better known in every corner of Ohio and throughout the nation 3 it better understands its high mission in this state, and wha! rt must do to fulfill that mission. Whatever suspicion was arouw-f. has already been allayed by public conhdence in the new Pre-1 3 dent, whose thorough acquaintance with the school nien and the peculiar educational conditions in Ohio has reassured those no had come to distrust the motives and intentions of the lfniver ' President Thompson is the most important fact in the la of this University year. He has entered upon his duties in :.. spirit which commands the loyalty and enlists the best anti zz.-,-' willing service of men, wheresoever men are associated in a common work,-the spirit of justice and fairness and straight- forward honesty of purpose and of action. Under the pervafliz. influence of such a spirit, felt in all of its departments and l.-Q all of its students, the University cannot fail to move rapidly fora .. ' in its fundamental work of training men and women, by the exacting methods of science, to sound ideas of living. Tlifisc who, blinded by the commercial spirit of the time. compare a University to a factory, need to be reminded that the only kind of goods worth having from an education-factory is tliorouglxljc trained men and women possessed of the spirit of justice and fair- ness and straight-forward honesty of purpose and of action. XK'e hear much nowadays of business methods and advertising az:-j rivals in the ,work of education 5 and commercial terms are imagined by some to carry weight in educational discussion. It would be disastrous, however, both to business and to education, -indeed, to factories of all sorts,-if universities should encour- age, by precept or example, the idea that there are better business methods than those which are founded upon justice and fairness to f1Va1S, C0-W0fkefS, and employesg or the equally prenicit-us idea that shrewd advertising will render honest goods less essen- N V. t ' ,gvqvgw':u,s4,-Q..-24.1.-. -- .1 ' m--H---Y A -- -.Y ,H

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.9 WMNNQH B 0. S. U. in 1899-1900 The University year now drawing to a close will be remem- bered with satisfaction by students and oilicers of O. S. U. as a year of sound growth and solid achievement in several important directions. There have been years when more things have been begun and more schemes for the University projected, when, perhaps, the O. S. U. has been heard from more often by the educational and newspaper-reading public, but there has not, for a long time, been a year of better work, both by students and instructors, nor a year of greater harmony and confidence. The enrollment of students has increased considerably 5 the improved scholarship of the student body is evinced by fewer conditions and failures in the examinations 3 and there has been a total absence this year of student outbreaks and conflicts. All student organizations are flourishing. In athletics the O. S. U. has been triumphant, and measures have been taken by the Faculty and Trustees to afford all of the underclassmen, hereafter, regular training by prescribed courses in the gymnasium. The opening of the Armory to the Battalion for two parties during the year, in addition to the junior and Senior receptions, has in- . 1 creased the interest of the socially inclined in the University as the center of things. The interest of the Faculty VVomen in student affairs has been shown this year, as heretofore, in ways most helpful to the students. The most important achievement in the direction of material growth is the greatly increased tax levy for the next two years, granted by the legislature. This will give the University a new Law Building and a Physics Building, as well as a better equip- ment for these departments. It is hoped that the legislature has by this grant inaugurated a permanent policy of providing new buildings for the University as often as these shall i11 the future be needed, leaving the regular income available for the running expenses of the institution. T0 expect the Trustees to save out of the regular income sufficient money to erect new buildings as needed in the future would be absurd, in view of the rapid growth of tl1e University. If the present bonded indebtedness of the University incurred by the erection of buildings were now entirely paid, every cent of the money thus released for use would bc quickly absorbed in meeting legitimate demands of the depart-

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