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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FN 5555559593 ,H 4 1 9 is i5555QQQ95 6 Board of Trustees DAVID M. MASS. .... JOHN T. MACK. ..... LUCIUS B. WING ...... 1899-1900 Q' . .... Chillicothe. . . . .....Sandusky . ..... Newark ..... . THOMAS J. GODFREY ..... . .... Celina .... . J. MCLAIN SMITH ..... PAUL JONES ......... OSCAR T. CORSON . . . J. MCLAIN SMITH ..... OSCAR T. CORSON... ALEXIS COPE ......... L. F. KIESEWETTER.. Executive. L. B. WING T. J. GODFREY PAUL JONES THOMAS J. GODFREY .....Dayton.... .....Columl:us. . .. .....Co1umlaus Officers of fhe Board .se Commiffees of the Board Farm J. McLAIN SMITH L. B. WING JOHN T. MACK Faculty and Courses of Study OSCAR T. CORSON 24 Q- -1'r !ii!!l!laf-uan-ynf..-4-2-ww---I I Term Expires May 13, 1900 . 1901 1902 ' 1903 1904 ' 1905 1906 . . . . .President . . . .Vice President - - . .Secretary . . . .Treasurer Finance D. M. MASSIE J. McLAIN SMITH PAUL JONES JOHN T. MACK 555fQ?:i -ax Z-,Q XX? 55555334