North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION This brief reference to the Alumni and Former Student Association is dedicated to the modern deity, Whoopee, and to athletic supremacy, both of which will certainly invade our institution in due time if the theme of this book will make the rightful impression on the readers. The Alumni Association values highly the splendid democratic student spirit manifested every place on the campus and which is so well illustrated in the title and makefup of this book. In other words, it lauds the spirit of youth which invariably stimulates institutions and everything else with which it comes in contact to greater material and spiritual progress. Upon making your debut in the outside world, the College Alumni Association solicits your affiliation, your enthusiasm, and your interest in the organization, as well as your cooperation for promoting projects which are in the interest of your Alma Mater. While you are a student at this institution, you are urged to acquaint your' self with the alumni program and the immediate future needs of your school. After leaving school you will be better able to work for these matters. The Alumni Association represents the will of the graduates and former students of the State College. You are requested to feel free to express your opinions to the organization, to cooperate in keeping it modernistic, and to help to promote college improvementsg efficient personnel, better curriculum, better equipment, better service, more buildings, and better college sports. Always remember that when you better your school, you increase your own assets. ei , Page 19

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THE PRESIDENT Looking forward is always most pleasing to the mind just as distant views are most pleasing to the eye. It is a very happy thought to make the development of our college and its future the central theme for the 1930 Bison. Since the col' lege was in fact created in 1890 we will be just 40 years of age in 1930. Thinking of S0 years as the time for our Golden Jubilee, I shall attempt to look into the future only up to 1940, realizing how far I may miss the mark in picturing our development in that period. First let us consider the student body, for after all the college was established for the students and our first concern at all times is the welfare of the students. Each year the number has increased from 100 to 150. By 1930 we shall have approximately 1500 students and by 1940, when we celebrate our Golden Jubilee, our enrollment will be 2500, as a minimum. During this short period just ahead the faculty will increase by leaps and bounds both in number and in preparation. Turning to the buildings on the campus, by 1930 we shall almost certainly have added the wings to Science Hall, rebuilt the power plant, built at least one of the wings planned for the central agricultural building and completed a men's dormitory. Before our Golden Jubilee in 1940 progress in building will be realized in all of the eight schools and the library. This is not merely a dream, but a definitely well worked out plan which is being brought into actuality little by little each year and will even more rapidly develop now that the pref liminary adjustments have been made. nag Pa gc 18

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DEAN OF MEN Faculties may adopt rules for courses and grades, but they cannot create by edict the elusive things called intelligence, integrity, honor, loyalty, and ideals. The imagination, courage, and devotion of the few become, in a measure, the possessions of all. Teachers raise questions, define issues, offer suggestions, set personal examples, but, in the end, student leadership formulates the public opinion which is embodied in traditions, values, and college community character. For the future, I hope that a greater progress will be made in the deepening sense of student responsibilities, that the good name of the college will always be protected by proper student behavior, that business-like, honest methods in student finances will always be approved, that a thoroughly honest attitude in scholarship tests will always be supported, that an unwavering policy of good faith in inter' collegiate agreement and of selffrespecting sportsmanship will be followed, that appeals in behalf of worthy causes will be met in a generous way, that men and V women who, from the world of thought and action, bring you real messages of social sympathy and spiritual faith will be heartily welcomed, that these problems and many others will challenge your sense of justice, your courage, and your seriousness of purpose. Personally I have full confidence in our present generation of students. I believe that the young men and women of our campus will work together for a kind of college life that will inspire its members to keener intellif gence, more sympathetic comradeship, a more vivid sense of duty, and a nobler sense of earnestness. SW l Page 20