University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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(Dur Uniuersity ous mien are only skeletons of creatures that inhabited the vasty deep a million years ago. Pass along, note the many cases filled with curious specimens. collected from all parts of the world. Crystals, minerals, ores, marbles, petrifactions, meteorites, fossils of every form of life no longer on the earth. The time spent here you may well believe is full of pleasure, not only for the special student but for all of us in an hour of leisure, especially with a friend to show around. Now come above and see how much more beautiful the world has grown. Here is the beginning of our museum of natural history. Though only a beginning, there is enough in the collection of native birds and beasts, insects and reptiles to interest us for more days than we have moments now to give it. This is the favorite resort of the art student sketching still life, or copying the taxidermists art. Let us pass on into the great laboratories of botany and zoology. Here you may well imagine the enthusiastic devotee of sciences enters the seventh heaven. Here all the deeper mysteries of nature ' s work are unveiled, and the happy students, each at his own desk, each desk separately provided with all necessary implements and appliances, is permitted to investigate and, microscope in hand, to see each for himself just how all living forms were made. All organic stritctures. vegetable and animal are subjects of investigation here. Flowers, weeds, seeds and fruits, grasses, grains, sh rubs and trees, mosses and fungi, birds and fishes, bugs, bees and butterflies, frogs and dogs, cats and rats — everything that hath life, from microbe to molusk. from molusk to man, if you include the work done at the new and beautiful Medical building over there, is dissected and its miniitest structure analyzed. A picnic in pursuit of knowledge, do you say? this life in Pillsbury Science Hall? Yes, and more literally than you imagine part of the time, for during the spring and fall, the classes in natural sciences are organized for out-door work, embracing actual excursions and exploring expeditions. Now it is Prof. McMillan piloting his botany class on long tramps through the woods, all coming back loaded down with specimen flowers and plants for their herberiums. Again the geology students go jaunting with Prof. Hall, and are gone perhaps days at a time exploiting the surrounding country, hunting for fossils to bring back to the cabinets, and studying the larger features of the world ' s countenance. Then every week almost. Prof. Nachtrieb receives the physiology class at his home, where they have a perfectly delightful hour spent in scientific reading and discussion. And did you ever see more charming picnic grounds than this lovely campus. Take a look at it all in panoramic vie v before we leave. Was ever finer setting for architectural gems than nature has furnished here? The broad acres with their half mile of frontage along the verge of the great gorge at whose bottom flows the Mississippi, all so high as to overlook the magnificent city, be- yond the river, and much of it shaded by the wide speading native oaks — does it not real- ize your dream of academic groves? And see what ample room and perfect grounds for all the manly and womanly sports, games and exerci ses. No wonder our foot ball team now wears the belt and our first nine expects to, too, ere long. A regular picnic in pursuit of knowledge. You have it exactly. That is what our whole life is in the dear old l ' . of . I., and you are invited to come and participate.

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Che. Faculty CYRUS NORTHROP, I,U. U., Presidknt. B. A., Yale, 1857; LL. B., 1860; LL. D., ISSO; A 1 K. Skull anil Bones. ' V B K. WILLIAM WATTS POLWELL, LL. D., ProFHSSOR op POTJTICAT- SCIENCE, LinKARIAN, AN1 LECTTRER 0. INTEKNATIO.NAI, LAW. B. A., Hobart, 1857; M. A., 1860; LL. I)., 1880. A A ' 1 ' , ' V B K. lABEZ BROOKS, P. D., Professor of the Greek Lanoijage and Literatitre. B. A., We.sleyan, 18. )0; M. A , 1853; D. D., Lawrence Univer.sity, 1865. + Y, B K. NHWTON HORACE WINCHELL, M. A., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, in Charge or- the Geoi.dgicai. Survey, Curator of the Ge.nerai. Musuem. B. A., Michigan, 1866; M. A., 1868. A K E. CHARLES N. HEWITT, M. D., I ' niversitv Professor of SANITAK ■ Scii-lNCE. B. A., Hobart, 1856; M. D., 1858. A A . JOHN GEORGE MOORE, B. A., Professor of the German LANGUArn; and Literature, B.A,, Cornell, 1873. AY. CHRISTOPHER WEBBER HALL, M. A., Dean of the College of Engineering; Metallurgy and the Mechanic Arts; Professok of Geology and .Mineralogy; Assistant Curator of the Musuem. B. A., Middlebnry, 1871 ; M. A., 1874. A Y, B K. JOHN CORRIN HUTCHINSON, B. A., ASSOCIATE PROI- f:SSOR of (;kf:i-:K and .V1 ATIIliMATICS B. A , Minnesota, 1S70. + V, B K. JOHN SINCLAIR CLARK, B. A., PROFES.SOR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B. A., Minnesota, 1876. Y. B K. MATILDA JANE WILKINS, M. L., - ASSISTANT I ' ROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN. B. L., Minnesota, 1877; M. L., 1890. B K. JOHN F. DOWNEY, M. A., C. E., Professor op Mathematics and . stronomy. B. S., Hillsdale, 1870; M. S., 1873; M. A., 1878; C. E., State ColleRe of Penn., 1.S77. WILWAM A. PIKE, B. S., Lecti ' rer on Mechanical Enginp:kring. B. S„ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871. JAMES ALBERT DODGE, Ph. D., Professor OF Che.mistry. B. Ai. Harvard, 1869; M. A., 1872; Ph. D., HeidelherK, 1878. B K.