Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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constant need of precaution is evident in a student body of a thousand people. The hospital planned for Miami will contain room for about thirty patients with every modern facility. The cost is estimated at 3575.000 In 1897 the present Herron gymnasium was built. There were then less than 200 men in Miami and no women. Now there are one thousand men and women using this same gymnasium. The new one planned for the men will contain three gym fioors and a swimming pool, and locker rooms for about eight hundred men. Physical education today does not mean merely the train- ing of athletic teams for intercollegiate contests. It means the development of the body of every student along with the development of the mind. This can only make for the highest attain- ments of the student after leaving college. The new gymnasium planned will cost about S300,000. Equally important with the training of the men is the physical training of the women at Miami. They now receive but small benefit from the training they are able to get in the old gymnasium. A new one is planned that will take care of this work for about twelve hundred girls. It will have several Hoors and also a swimming pool. And right here a word should be said about the spirit of the Miami women who, a few years ago, conceived the idea of the VVomen's Gym Fund. The girls began a gigantic task of raising a great amount of money bit by bit with labor that meant actual sacrifice to each participant in the movement. No greater momument to the spirit of Miami women could be erected than a gymnasium conceived and made possible in large part by the work of Miami girls. The new gymnasium planned for the women's group of buildings is to cost about SE250,000. In 1909 when the Alumni Library was built there were about five hundred students at Miami. The library has become too small to accomodate the present student body. An exten- sion is sought that will cost about 3B100,000. When this most beautiful building on the campus was erected, about half the money for the structure was given by Andrew Carnegie. The other half was given by the alumni and student body. Several other funds, more in the nature of service to students than permanent buildings, make up the remainder of the million dollars. Prominent among these needs is the student loan fund. Miami has never been known as a rich man's school. For the most part her student body is made up of students from modest families. Many times students have been able to re- main in Miami thru the aid obtained from a loan fund at the university. Many a Miami man and woman feels a closer tie to Old Miami today because of a modest monetary aid at some particular period of their college life. And it is most gratifying to know that these men and women in later life have developed into some of the most valuable Miami men and women as well as leaders in their communities. Miami today serves primarily the Miami Valley. From her halls have gone men and women whose names are among the pioneers of the Valley in profession, industry and business. Closely woven into the development of the Valley is theghistory and tradition of Miami. And not alone to the Miami Valley has Miami proven her worth. A president of the United States, ambassadors to foreign lands, governors of states, ministers and missionaries and states- men have gone from the halls of Old Miami with the idea of service to mankind inculcated into their being. And there is need today for pioneers just as surely as there has been in the past. Miami must be prepared to send forth men as leaders in the future just as in the past. This is a part of the new service to be demanded of Miami by a more exacting public. Miami men and women will be brought closer to the university, her fame will grow and her leadership will be of the highest caliber. The new era is dawning. Miami's crimson towers against the sky shall be a constant beacon for those who have left her gates and those who are yet to enter. Qennrumumn in 2 T51 . . 1 fvigiffu 'q T T A it T i..i Hlulzliulmlilumm illlllllllilllll 'fiifj - Y' 7ULT?'1 ii it it i D

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