University of Alberta - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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PC This year the University of Alberta has entered upon its thirty fifth session. Created by an act of the first session of the first legislature of the province in 1906, classes began on Septem ber 23, 1908 with a registration of forty-five. In those days, before the present buildings were erected, classes were held in various buildings in the city, including part of the Strathcona high school. The first graduation classes were held there on May 16, 1911. u NuvE slT Y 1 However in that year, work was begun on Athabasca Hall, which upon completion was used partly as classrooms and partly as dormitory. By 1914, all three residences had been built and were in use. Soon after appeared the Engineering Laboratories and the Arts Building. The Medical Building, perhaps the most striking on the campus, was built in 1921. At that time, the campus presented much the same appearance as that with which we are familiar today. The present war first noticeably affected the university when the residences were taken over in 1941 to accommodate No. 4 I.T.S. of the Air Force. Their classes in the university itself began in 1942, when the No. 2 RCAF school began instruction for radio technicians. Another important development was the forma- tion of the first scientific basic training centre for naval ratings in Canada, which has begun classes on the campus. The university itself is faced with many of the same problems of carrying on under wartime restrictions as it was during the last war. Military training for students makes its demands, to the necessary curtailment of former campus activities. Decreased enrollment from year to year and the possibility of several facul- ties being discontinued for the duration of the war makes the future look dark indeed. Yet we may look forward with confidence-difficulties which were overcome before can be overcome again. The need for education is never completely filled, and education is a powerful instrument with which to sweep away the forces which bring about wars such as we are now witnessing. The coming of ,peace will restore the campus life we knew and will doubtless see the further expansion of the university to a greater extent than ever before. qwm , - 'fl

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Ill MEMIIIIIAM For the first time since its founding twenty-one years ago, the Law School opened without Dean Weir. His untimely death removed from the University a pro- fessor whose knowledge of his chosen field was a source of repeated wonder even to those of us who knew him most intimately and had come, in a sense, to take his pro- found knowledge for granted. Above and beyond his learning he possessed to a high degree the art of teaching, so that always his students were led to make their own discoveries. Although the University has suffered a serious loss, nothing can ever take away from it his years of devoted service. No more unassuming man ever lived. His life was his family, his professional associates-and the law. Characteristical- ly, he disregarded the symptoms of his fatal illness in carrying his heavy teaching load to the last day of classes: at what cost we shall never know. In the University, in law offices, in barracks and on the high seas his students and graduates mourn his death and treas- ure his memory.