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To the Greater University Her Sheen Old Gold Cradled in the Crescent Of the New University To the Greater University Committee A Trinity of Students Alumni and Faculty In Unity a Token of Power and Progress To the Greater University Cluhs Of Counties of States and of Nations Of Men of Women and of Saints To the Greater University lucky Thirteen The Colleges Eight and the Schools Five Stars in the Union of the One University Flag To the Greater University Campus Ever larger with Beauty and Buildings With its Old Capitol the Heart of City and State To the Greater University A Spirit Of Devotion to Learning Law Life and Love Of Manhood full-orbed ever shining from Iowa GEORGE E. MACLEAX. March, 1908
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Greater University Movement What is the Greater University movement, is the natural question when mention is made of the broadening and deepening of the University spirit which has made itself so evident in the last year. Why was it started? How was it launched? What has it accom- plished! What is its future, are questions which immediately present themselves. The Greater University movement may be briefly defined as a movement originating in the student body for the bettering and enlarging of the University and the Iowa spirit. The movement arose out of a feeling among many men in all positions in the Univer- sity that there was a lack of permanent unity in Iowa spirit which should be eager at all times to better the University. The only common interest was the athletic contests and these in their very nature could do no more than stimulate a common loyalty. Especially after the close of the ' 07 foot-ball season when Iowa spirit burned the brightest of any time in years, something was needed to give it permanence and power as never before. In past times it was possible for all the students to know each other and the faculty more or less intimately. But the University has made a phenomenal growth. The student body has increased in numbers from a few hundred to thousands; the faculty from a mere handful of men to hundreds. This marvelous growth and branching out of the University has necessarily separated interests and has broken down former points of common contact. Further, the growth of the University has necessarily developed social conditions which tend away from, rather than toward unity. There are no dormitories, the students being scattered in separate houses over Iowa City. Thus the acquaintanceship of a particular man is generally limited to those in his particular line of work, or those in his neighborhood. Clubs and societies have attempted to fill this need, but their field has been limited and on every hand they have been confronted by a lack of unity and the absence of a permanent, true University spirit. The natural consequence of this state of affairs was that University life did not mean as much to many men as it should have meant. Many men came to the University with defects and prejudices due both to influences of environment and inherited disposition. Too many of these defects and prejudices are only aggravated and deepened by his Univer- sity life and he goes out from the greatest educational institution in the state without the fullest development of manhood of which he is capable. The Greater University movement is the result of the desire to remedy these condi- tions. It came into existence in response to a unanimous call to direct the latent student power into channels where it would enlarge and benefit the University in its largest and broadest sense. The answer was the formation of a Greater University Committee and the movement was formally launched by the appointment of this committee. In an assem- bly December 5, 1907, the undergraduates passed the motion for the appointment of such a committee with a unanimous ' ' aye ' ' and adopted as their slogan ' ' Always for Iowa. ' ' The committee infringes on the function of no organization connected with the University and is unique in itself. It is the only committee of its kind on record among middle western Universities. It is the mouthpiece of student ideas and the means of solving many problems which confront the University today. What has the movement accomplished as superintended by the committee? The day of the appointment of the committee it met, temporarily organized and laid plans for a monster student mass meeting in the new auditorium for the reorganization of the county club movement. The day of the meeting the auditorium was packed, the students rallying about their county standards similar to a state convention. Here the county delegations 8
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