No college or university will increase in stature without an increase in funds, Gen. Troy H. Middleton, president of the Louisiana State university, told members of the Young Men's Business Club Wednesday.
"The lack of money to provide proper salaries to recruit and hold scholars will certainly result in lower standards," said the university prexy, who addressed the club at their weekly luncheon meeting at the Roosevelt hotel.
Gen. Middleton said the measure of a university's development "ought to be the rate of growth of the society in which we live." He said a university should grow at a faster pace than society; that
educational progress should precede economic progress.
Asking $4,700,000 Boost "We are living in a rapidly growing section," added the speaker, "our enrollment is keeping pace and I think that at LSU we have grown up. It used to be if you wanted a Ph. D degree or even a master's degree you had to go North—yes, even in agriculture."
Gen. Middleton said he believes LSU deserves "as good as any other part of the country."
"Yes," he said, "we are asking the Legislature for a sum of money. We are asking for the biennium $4,700,000 more than we are spending today. I think we need every penny of it. If I didn't we, wouldn't be asking for it."
