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■%t . The Education Building when it was the Library with the first G mnasium in the background. THE GROWTH OF jy Of the people, by the people and for the people may be saiil, too, of a State University. True enough, the University of Oklahoma existed before there was a State of Oklahoma. Hur progress and welfare of the two have been, and always will be interwoven closely. In 1892, in a rented building, the L niver- sity opened her doors to pioneer Territorial students. Soon sin- occupied a lone building of her own on bald prairie. H l ' X)7, when Oklahoma become a State, there were 7 ' X1 students — ,1 6 of them at college level. The late president, William Bennett Bizzell, leading an early graduating class into Holinberg. first building was destroyed by lire few years after completion.
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(irailuatts vith degrees secure pay heed tci the advice offered by commencement speaker. Hands gripping enrollment packets were the order of the day during registration at the Field House. SlflTf P O Today ' s stiulcnt.- mmiht-r high in the thousands. There were 11,302 in resiik-ncc durinu: the 1949-50 fall semester — close to the record heights of the years just preceding. Increase in stu- dent citizens has meant development of the University State along every line. Facilities must grow. This year we saw dedi- cation of the new Women ' s Quadrangle as one of the nation ' s finest centers for college women. Enlargement of Owen Field Stadium to hold 53,000 OV football fans was completed. And we watched the beginning of a new expansion of the Oklahoma Mcniinl;;! rn .n buiMin ' -. With the physical growth of the University mushroomed a new development, Sooner City. Owen Stadium Is -nI;iiii;L ' d and modernized l v the addition of a new north end. Steam shovels and trucks make way for the new south of the Union Building.
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