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

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t I ll ADMINISTRATION

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THE UNIVERSITY WHAT is the University of Iowa? Anybody can answer such a question with ease. The University of Iowa has a campus of three hundred acres, fifty buildings, five or six hundred instructors, eight thousand students, fifteen thou- sand graduates, and unnumbered thousands of former students. It has an excellent equipment, and . . . What? Oh, you mean what it is, not what it has. Well, that ' s not so easy. Doubtless it also is what it has: grounds, buildings, faculty, students, alumni all of these. What besides? Oh, it is a spirit of truth. When it ceases to be that, it will cease to be a university. Next? Well, next it is a fellowship of souls, searching together to learn what truth is. And then? And then it is personality charac- ter. It is a lofty human ideal. Still more? Well, perhaps it may be too much to say that it is God. At least it is in God. It is religion. Further yet? One can go no further. Then sum up the whole matter. It is Alma Mater, our Fostering Mother. B ecause she is all that she is that is the reason why we love her. Page Tvtrnty-tne