University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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GREETINGS TO OUR UNIVERSITY S CHIEF EXECUTIVE of the State of Nevada, I send my greetings to our University. By University I mean everyone connected with the institution in any capacity. The authorities are to be highly commended for the choosing; of men and women of such high character to instruct the coming generation. And these instructors are also to be highly commended for the excellent courses of study they are developing and requiring the students to master. We are turning well-equipped young men and women out into the world and are equipping them more and more for this age of hurry and confusion. I have had occasion to watch the progress of a great many of our graduates and have found that in every instance they have gone forward with mastering strides and with absolute confidence in themselves. I am more than thankful for the great and valuable gifts which we have received in recent years. These enable us to render a service that otherwise we could not render so thoroughly and well. I want to congratulate the student body for its willijigness to conform so cheerfully to the regulations which are so important to a well organized institution as ours is. I am a believer in student control of student activities, but I also believe that an advisory board such as we have is indispensable to the well being of the whole. There must be some play along with your arduous mental activities; so do it that your bodies may improve in proportion to the development of your minds. My only wish is that every student may become physically and mentally fit while- attending our House of Learning. Ma} ' all, and each of you, continue to enjoy the happy reflections consequent upon a well spent life, and may our University continue to prosper in the future as it has in the past. Fred B. Balzar, Governor. Page Tcicnly-sevcn

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A GREATER NEVADA 12 =5 PIE DECADE 1920 to 1 930 has been transitional for Nevada. Resulting from reparedness developed in man} ' lines during this decade the coming ten years should he the greatest decade in all the State ' s history. Granted only the adequate precipitation absolutely need fid in this irrigating land, Nevada will grow with increasing ratio throughout this coming ten years and will grow in ways which will add permanently to its strength. The Nevada of 1940 will in all probability be from fifty to a hundred per cent greater than at present, tested by several major lines of measurement. During the transitional ten years to 1930 this University of Nevada has been steadily strengthening for greater service during the coming decade. With the momentum already acquired it is possible that, by the middle of this new decade, the University may be well nigh perfected in plant, staff and organization for a continuing great service to the State. Already the University is training; each year sons and daughters from over seven hundred homes of the State. Already its staff and graduates in yearly growing numbers are actively aiding the State ' s progress through service in the State ' s schools, in the development of its farms, its ranches, its mines, its roads, and its cities, and in the carrying on of its business and professional callings and the upbuilding of its civic life. Already the University has been reaching out through its Extension and Experi- ment Station and Public Service Departments to give, in every area of this great State, leadership service aidful in achieving the preparedness successes of the Commonwealth during the decade now ending. But the University must serve still more perfectly. All directly associated with the University — Staff and Students — and all friends of the University must cooperate unstintedly; first to complete the University itself as rapidly as possible, and secondly to beget an even more devoted spirit of service at the University, that with this then multiplied power, the University may shine in yearly growing service to this ever greater commonwealth. Walter E. Clark, President. December 16, 1 929. Page Twenty-six

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1 in THE REGISTRAR r pHE first person with whom the student comes contact on registering at the University of Nevada is Miss Louise M. Sissa, who has served in the capacity of Registrar for many years. She has seen this institution develop from the mere nucleus of a university to a school which is on the approved list of the Association of American Uni- versities, the nearest approach to an official r ating body for such institutions. In December, 1920, appli- cation for such placement was formally accepted and at that time Nevada was the one hundred and thirty-fourth name on the list. Only from the enrollment statistics can we get an adequate idea of its rapid growth: 1905 248 1915 448 1925 913 1910 212 1920 726 1929 103 7 All of the student fees are received by the Treasurer and Comptroller, who is also the custodian of all the student body funds, which are in separate accounts. The Treasurer is also authorized to receive an) ' moneys from gifts to the University, and funds from fees are all entrusted to his keeping. MORRILL HALL Page Twenty-eight