Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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The Business Manager EDWARD C. LYTTON Bzc.s'i1ws.v Mazzugm' HE DIFFICULT job of keeping the financial balance of the University on il level is the unenviable task of our Iinancial manager, Edward C. Lytton, Whexi even businesses run for a profit find it hard to keep the red away from the ledger sheet, it is surprising indeed that an institution such as Drake University, seeking no profit but that of a rich return in the future of her students, has been able Hnancially to keep her head above water. The past year has been a diflicult one. Colleges and schools have found it necessary to disband. Others have been forced to merge with other institutions, thereby losing the individuality which gives such a rich parcel of memories to every graduate. Unemployment, business failures, the depression, each in turn has left its mark on the universities. The financial depart' ment must meet such conditions. It is a very difficult undertaking, diihcult enough during the very best of times. 'With the tuition supplying only a part of the needed funds other means must be found to supply the ever increasing demands of the school. These means must be worked out by the business manager and his associates. A job requiring the happy combinations of many talents'-such a combination is to be found in Edward C. Lytton, our friend and financial guide. PRoMo'r1oN STAFF. I 153

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The Library OR the past six years Marry Bell Nethercut has served as Librarian and Professor of Library Science. During this time she has made many important changes and improvements in the library organization. - The University Library occupies the second floor of MARY Bbw' N'fT l5RU f the Carnegie Library Building. It contains approximately L1f 'ff 11 1 40,000 volumes, selected with special reference to the needs of the students. It receives currently 325 periodicals of gen' eral and departmental interest, Over HU titles are bound regularly and form a part of the wellfrounded collection of refercncc books. The Law Library is on the second lloor of Cole Hall, and contains 8,500 volumes for the use of the Law School. Miss Ncthercut is looking forward to the time when the entire Carnegie Building will be conf vcrted into a library. At that time the present library will become a reference room, There will be two reading rooms on the second floor and the basement will be made over into seminar rooms. At the present time there are eighteen members on the library stall. Six are employed in the Law Library and twelve in the main library. One of the most essential, and at the same time one of the least obtrusive departments of the present day university, is the library. It has become more and more a necessity of education, until now a university without a library is most difficult of conception, It ranks with thc laboratory as an imporf tant phase of modern education and like the laboratory it serves as an instrument by which the branches of learning are reached. If the statement, True learning consists not in knowing a thing but in knowing where to find it, is true, then the student at this University has all the ingredients of true learning at his linger tips, for no pains have been spared to make the search for knowledge easy for him. A well trained staff of librarians is busy at all times cataloguing books and helping the student in his search for literature of all kinds. It is one of the tragic phases of college life when a student feels obliged to read matter pertaining only to his particular subject. So many people never become cognizant of the wealth that is in store for them between the covers of a book. The library always urges touching upon other subjects than are strictly assigned, a delving into the secrets held in the many volumes and a broadening of general knowledge through liberal use of the libraries. And as soon as the student learns that in books may be found his friends, friends that will remain with him throughout life, the use of the libraries will increase even faster than at present. LIBRARY STAFF I 141

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The Registrar lim M A bl, Sco'1 t lx'vgfi.v!nz1- NOTHER loyal Drake alumnae now serving the University is Emma A1. Scott, Registrar. lt is her ollice that answers more questions from anxious students than any other, because here the grades arc recorded and the grade cards are given out. Here the f1unks are chalked up and from here the D cards, nightmares to all students, are sent on their way home, later to bring angry comments from irate parents. Here also attendance records are kept, and class ahsences are checked, and all of those thousand and one records, that are particularly unintelligihle to undergraduates whose credit hours are short or who wish to know Why they received four and nineftenths hours instead of five. From these records the following interesting information was gathered, concerning Drake's atf tendancc: 1SS2.., ,. ..... 270 1895 ,.,,,.... ........ S 68 19117, , ,, 1764 1919 ,.,....,.. 1487 1833 ,.,.. 292 189o...,,, , ...... 1037 1908 ......,,.. ,, 1846 1920 ...,.,. 2164 1884 ,,..,,,, , 321 1897 .......,, .... 9 86 19119 .......,.. ,.,,,, 1 787 1921 .......... ,..... 2 275' 1387 ....,... 339 1893 ..... ....,. . 1026 19101 ,,..,, ....... 1 843 1922 ........,. .,.... 2 300 1386 ....,......, 395 1899 .....,,, ,,,, 1186 1911,,,,i,, ....... 1827 1923 ....,.. . 2213 1337, ,...... 434 1900 ,.,..i , , ..,..i 1475 1912 ,,.., ..,,... l 390 1924 .......... ...... 2 462 1358, ,,,., , ..,.. 505' 1901 ,,,, ,, .,.,,.,, 1640 1913 ,,,., .,..,.. 1 531 1925 ...,...... ,,., . 2490 ISS9 ,,,, W ..... 740 1902., ,,....,. 1686 1914 ,,,,,.., .,.,,... 1 408 1926 ......... . 2477 1890 ............ ..... 7 82 1903 ,,.,,,,., ........ 1 593 1915 .,,, ,.,.. ....... 1 3 66 1927 .......... .,,.,. 2 470 1891 ..,...., ,,,,, S 37 1904 ,,,,,,,,.. ,,,,,,ii 1 507 1916 .......... .,..... 1 532 1928 ........... ...,. 2 407 1392 .......,..,, ..... 8 35 1905 ,,,, ,,,i ,,,,,,,, 1 5' 90 1917 ,,,, ,.,,. ,....t 1 7 44 1929 ........... ..,,.. 2 455' 1893 .... .....,. .,..i 8 5 6 1906 ,,,,, ,,,,,,,, 1634 1918 ....,,..., ....,.. 1 421 1930 .....,..... ...... 2 449 1894 ..,,.,....,. ,,... S '56 .pw ,,, K ,. V ,L-535 Riif:1s'rl:ixR's S'r.xr1f 1 16 1