A Review of Education Progress in Ohio for the Current Year (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Review of Education Progress in Ohio for the Current Year

Of the twenty - eight institutions of higher education replying to my questionnaire, it is difficult to summarize the increases for the year in endowment, in enrollment, buildings, grounds, departments, and equipment, for the reason that totals were so frequently given instead of net increases, as specifically asked for. From a somewhat confus ing mass of figures, I have untangled a few pertinent facts.

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The most notable increase in endowment is at Wooster, namely, $231,568.00, Western Reserve being second with $176,766.67. Lake Erie College reports a hundred thousand increase; Cincinnati University, $80,00.00; Ohio Wesleyan, $63,000.00, chiefly gifts on the annuity plan; Mt. Union-Scio, a happy consummation but an awkward hyphenation, $20,000.00; Case, $14,000.00; and others in less amounts, or none at all.

Kenyon, which owns residences for the members of her faculty, has a new President's house worth $20,000.00, a professor's house costing $8,000.00, and a new Alumni library, $50,000.

Heidelberg opened her new $35,000.00 library last October, and will dedicate a new science building at the forthcoming Commencement.

Muskingum has a new chapel, Cincinnati a new School of Commerce, Ohio State a new library, Western Reserve several new buildings and departments. Wilberforce will have a new science hall, Ohio Northern a $150,000.00 memorial structure in honor of Ex-President Lehr who founded that institution in 1866, and the Ohio Wesleyan has launched a campaign for an Oratory building and the endowment of that department.

German Wallace College is raising $100,000.00 in honor of its fiftieth anniversary this June. Denison is going after $300,000.00; Mt. Union-Scio, $200,000.00; Heidelberg and Ohio Northern, like sums. Ashland, Defiance, Findlay, Oxford College for women, Wittenberg, - all have initiated forward movements of greater or less degree for endowments, buildings, and departments.

We observe in the reports that have come to us from the colleges and universities a trend toward sounder scholarship, toward a saner and cleaner athletic life, and toward a lessening of the outside interests that interfere with scholarly pursuits.

It is safe to say that the type of higher institution of ten years ago has passed away never to return. Even our smaller universities and better colleges are much more composite in their departments and curricula and address themselves to a multitude of interests to which little attention was given a decade ago. But this is especially true of our state university which is rapidly becoming the scientific arm of the state to do whatever the commonwealth in its organized capacity may undertake for the welfare of its citizens, in the scientific development of its farm lands and mineral resources, in the care and development of its penal institutions, in geological and biological surveys, and in many other ways. That it has still larger fields for usefulness is read in the action of our present governor who has invited experts from other institutions outside of our borders to help him shape his program of progressive legislation.

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