University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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PRESIDENT MACLEAN IN HIS OFFICE

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1911 J|atokepe A Srrato BY PRESIDENT MACLEAN The first decade of the 20th Century will be noteworthy for the remarkable development of American State Universities. The State University of Iowa has more than kept pace with her sisters. Reckoning the period from 1899 to 1909. the last complete academic year, the facts and figures tell the story of growth at Iowa. A lirilfotng Era X early a million and a half of dollars have been put in buildings and equip- ment The important structures have been the Hall of Liberal Arts, the Univer- sity Central Heat Light and Power Plant with the tunnel extensions, the Hall of Anatomy, the Medical Laboratory, the wing and its extension of the Engineering Quadrangle, the Hall of Natural Science, also temporarily housing the Auditor- ium and general library, the Armory and Athletic Pavilion, the new wing of the University Hospital, the Steam Engineering Laboratory, the Hydro-Electric Power House with its adjunct of the concrete dam across the Iowa river, the President ' s House, and the Hall of Law. Nearly all of these buildings are of Bedford stone, of fire-proof construction, harmonious in style of architecture, the key-note of which is given by the Old Capitol. The extensions and renovations of other buildings would represent a creditable progress in an ordinary building period. The additions were Unity Hall given to the Chair of Public Speaking, and the Plant House. The Hall of Dentistry was extended and the Old Hall of Natural Science removed with the gain of a basement story. The Hall of Physics, the School of Music, the Building for Electrical Engineering and the old Hospital were entirely renovated. (Tontpua Sxlfnstnn During this time one hundred and fifty thousand dollars have been expended for the enlargement of the campus in accordance with plans of the well-known landscape architects, Olmsted Brothers. The campus will have an extended river front and will extend east to the east end of the hospital campus, a distance of about a half a mile. The Old Capitol, with its campus will be at the center with land stretching in every direction upon which quadrangles for the most part will

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} ,M v i Cfje 19 U atofeepe 5: be erected. With the additions that have been made to the original campus of thirteen acres, the University now owns forty acres of the proposed campus of seventy acres on the west side of the river, to say nothing of the University park on the east side. X ' rui (Eollrcira. rhonls. anb tJrpartmruts The following new colleges, schools, and departments have been organized: The Graduate College in 1900 with thirty-one fellowships and scholarships in the year 1909; the College of Applied Science in 1906. the flowering of the school of Applied Science developed in 1904 from the chairs of engineering carried for some years in the College of Liberal Arts. The departments of Drawing, De- scriptive Geometry. Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering and of Min- ing had differentiated it. The School of Political and Social Science and Com- merce was established in 1900 and in the same year the Summer Session was added including the School for Library Training. The first chair of Pedagogy in a University in the L ' nited States naturally yielded a School of Education in 1907. The College of Liberal Arts shared in the progress by the addition of the departments of Fine Arts, Scandinavian, and the chair of Public Speaking and by twenty -one additional professorships, assistant professorships and instructorships in departments already established. In the College of Law one new professor- ship, the law librarianship and two lectureships have been established. In the College of Medicine ten positions have been created in the staff of instruction and the principle of resident professorships has been set up. In the College of Den- tistry. three new departments have appeared to say nothing of the addition of an int professor and a demonstrator or two. In this period the University has been standardized as a University of first rank and requirements for admission to even,- college have been raised. The course of study in the College of Law has been lengthened from two to three years, in the College of Medicine from four years of twenty-six weeks each, to four years of nine months each, in the College of Pharmacy to two years and in the College of Dentistry to three years. The courses of study have been increased and revised, the laboratory methods of instruction have been extended to all fields, and the classes have been divided into small sections. Attm anre Last and in some sense least is the record of attendance shown in the fol- lowing table: 1898-99 ...... 1283 1902-03 ...... 1442 1906-07 ...... 2072 1899-00 ...... 1438 1903-04 ...... 1393 1907-08 ...... 2315 190001 ...... 1542 19044)5 ...... 1560 19084)9 ...... 2473 1901-02 ...... 1512 1905-06. . . 1815