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NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1920

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STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE UNIVERSITY, 1969-1921.

	Permanent Improvements1	Maintenance1
Years	Land and Buildings	Salaries, Maintenance, Etc.	Farmers' Institutes	Geological Survey	Botanical Survey	Hog Cholera	State Entomologist	Legislative Reference Bureau
1869-70	$100,000.002	......	......	......	......	......	......	......
1871-73	......	$39,067.95	......	......	......	......	......	......
1873-75	......	57,947.50	......	......	......	......	......	......
1875-77	......	50,645.94	......	......	......	......	......	......
18j7-79	......3	64,762.50	......	......	......	......	......	......
1879-81	8,000.00	50,000.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1881-93	......	56,000.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1883-85	......	75,000.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1885-87	45,000.00	116,885.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1887-89	70,000.00	166,200.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1889-91	37,200.00	143,748.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1891-93	61,900.00	193,635.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1893-95	......	242,412.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1895-97	73,000.00	257,988.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1897-99	30,000.00	276,159.00	$3,000	......	......	......	......	......
1899-01	93,500.00	335,831.20	*	......	......	......	......	......
1901-03	......	424,500.00	8,000	$1,700	$500	......	......	......
1903-05	267,500.00	465,000.00	12,000	2,000	......	......	......	......
1905-07	144,470.00	606,000.00	12,000	2,000	......	......	$3,000	......
1907-09	263,779.71	863,380.54	20,000	2,500	7,500	$2,5004	3,900	......
1909-11	120,000.00	1,141,568.00	20,000	2,500	3,000	5,000	4,000	......
1911-15	395,000.00	1,240,137.73	35,000	10,000	3,000	15,0005	5,000	$10,430.00
1913-15	636,721.47	1,617,717.59	50,000	10,000	3,000	30,000	5,000	17,746.70
1915-17	781,694.87	1,665,532.98	50,000	7,500	2,000	10,000	3,000	21,434.40
1917-19	779,382.54	1,684,328.33	75,000	......	2,000	......	10,000	19,151.69
61919-21	......	......	120,000	......	2,000	75,000	10,000	16,500.00
Total	$3,902,698.59	$11,834.447.26	$405,000	$38,200	$23,000	$137,000	$43,900	$85,262.79
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     ¹Appropriations for the medical college at Omaha are included in the building and maintenance appropriation.
     ²This amount realized from the sale of lands and lots and expended by the state capital location commission.
     ³Balance on purchase of university farm.
     ⁴For investigation of diseases of horses and hogs.
     ⁵$7,000 of this amount spent on permanent improvements.
     ⁶Incomplete.

 

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APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY, 1869-1921.

	Maintenance-Continued
Years	Experiment Station (Lincoln)	Pump Irrigation	Curtis Agricultural School	Nebraska Conservation and Soil Survey	Grand Total
1869-70	......	......	......	......	$100,000.00
1871-73	......	......	......	......	39,067.95
1873-75	......	......	......	......	57,947.50
1875-77	......	......	......	......	50,645.94
1877-78	......	......	......	......	64,762.50
1879-81	......	......	......	......	58,000.00
1881-83	......	......	......	......	56,000.00
1883-85	......	......	......	......	75,000.00
1885-87	......	......	......	......	161,885.00
1887-89	......	......	......	......	236,200.00
1889-91	......	......	......	......	180,948.00
1891-93	......	......	......	......	255,535.00
1893-95	......	......	......	......	242,412.00
1895-97	......	......	......	......	330,988.00
1897-99	......	......	......	......	309,159.00
1899-01	......	......	......	......	429,331.20
1901-03	......	......	......	......	434,700.00
1903-05	......	......	......	......	746,500.00
1905-07	......	......	......	......	767,470.00
1907-09	......	......	......	......	1,163,560.25
1900-11	......	......	......	$1,000.00	1,297,068.00
1911-13	......	......	$100,000.00	6,000.00	1,819,567.73
1913-15	......	......	60,000.00	12,000.00	2,441,735.76
1915-17	......	$7,500.00	70,000.00	12,000.00	2,630,662.25
1917-19	$25,000.00	5,000.00	75,000.00	25,000.00	2,699,862.56
1919-21	45,000.00	4,000.00	65,000.00	25,000.00	362,500.00
Total	$70,000.00	$16,500.00	$370,000.00	$81,000.00	$17,156,164.64
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BOARD.

Chairman--Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor.

Treasurer--D. R.. Cropsey, State Treasurer.

Secretary--J. M. Matzen, State Superintendent.

	Salary
C. A. Fulmer, State Director of Vocational Education	$3,600
C. W. Watson, State Supervisor of Agricultural Education	3,000
Alice M. Loomis, State Supervisor of Home Economics Education	3,000
L. A. Hartley, State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education .	3,000

     An act of congress, known as the Smith-Hughes act, approved by the president February 23, 1917, was the occasion of the creation of this board by the Nebraska legislature, then in session. The purpose of the Smith-Hughes act is to provide for the promotion of vocational education and for co-operation with the states in such promotion, and in the preparation of teachers in vocational subjects.

     By vocational education is meant training for the common wage earning employments, and a useful, productive life. No academic studies can be supported out of Smith-Hughes funds, and these funds are required by the act to be applied solely to payment of teachers' salaries and for the training of teachers. The allotment of this fund for Nebraska for the year, 1919-20, was $36,918,52, which was divided as follows: For salaries of teachers, supervisors and directors in agriculture, $17,859.82 for salaries of teachers in trades, home economics and industry, $7,350.00; for teacher training, $11,708.62. These annual allotments will increase until 1926 when the maximum, for Nebraska of $88,639.28 will be reached. The state must supplement these grants dollar for dollar, and has pledged its faith so to do.

     The board began its work January 1, 1918. office space in the University Temple has been provided. Various schools within the state have had the benefit of the direction of the board, and of the funds at its command. The University of Nebraska was designated as the teacher training school for Smith-Hughes teachers.

     This work was still further organized by the legislature of 1919. It authorized the school boards of any public or state school, college or university to establish in co-operation with the state board of vocational education, vocational schools, departments or classes in either agricultural, trade or industrial branches, or home economics. These schools may be organized as all-day schools, part-time schools or evening schools. At least three-fourths of the salaries of teachers in these schools are to be paid from the federal and state funds.

     One hundred thousand dollars was appropriated by the state for the years 1919-21.

APPROPRIATIONS, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

Years	Maintenance, Etc.
1917-19	$21,000
1919-21	100,000
Total	$121,000

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Elda R. Walker	President
A. J. Mercer	Vice-President
W. F. Hoyt	Secretary
G. W. A. Luckey	Treasurer
N. A. Bengston	Vice-President Earth Sciences Section
J. C. Jensen	Vice-President Physical Sciences and Mathematics Section
R. A. Lyman .	Vice-President Biological Sciences and Medical Section

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