University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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quickly gauged. A man cannot lift himself over a stone wall by his boot- straps. A University dramatic club has a rare chance. It can produce those masterpieces of English drama which the cheap stage of today fear to present lest the box-oHice receipts will tally with the cheapness of the stage itself. But thatys another story! The University Dramatic Club, however, has shown its ability and has proved its right to live, it has in- terested a number of students and aided in the development of their histrionic skill. lt is enlisted on the side of general culture, and, if rightly directed, it will make for art and higher appreciation of artistic life. This same history and criticism may be recounted of the organiza- tions known as the Glee Club and Nlandolin Club. The establishment at the University of a so-called School of lVlusic should provide a means for the encouragement and for the rendition of more music, particularly music of classical character. Today we can only register the beginnings of things artistic. Five decades hence the chronicler mayjokingly refer to our small beer.'l '. X f k .'g.N the other hand, there is a practical side to art, - 'K' C5 .Q and the journalistic efforts of the past few years , I. may be said to represent the growth of practical ffq .- literature. lt is a relief to find the Arie! that KJ I ,. . it 1' howl'd away twelve winters, more or less, r - finally freed and a new Dzzilv, correspondent to commandf, doing Ariells Uspriting gently. Q, CAS College journalism kills a good many birds, ...H . . ., ..2 but it was never known to injure a student. It is really the best and most successful school of journalism ever founded. Departments ofjournalism have been established in many eastern universities, with a blare of trumpets, too, but they have signally failed. A good course in daily writing is worth more than so-called courses of journalism. The Daily is an important adjunct to University life. lt supplies the demand for news, and experience shows that the better the news the higher the grade of the journal. When the University outgrows its small clothes the Daily will be ready to don its doublet and hose. 39 HIS is true also of the Minnesota Nlagazine. An effort C 3 was made last year to widen the scope of this monthly l ' periodical. This was a step in the right direction. But f Q . 'T it must not be forgotten that this periodical is primarily .Int a literaryjournal. rl he reason for its existence, domain of its influence, will always be commensurate with the nature and extent of culture to be found in the body of this University. 20

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The University is a society quite distinct from other forms of society. lts interests are peculiar, Jui gmerix, and an attempt to make a Popular Science Nlonthly or a Ladies' Home journal of the Mag. would be a serious shock to our collegiate traditions, if not a defeat of the real purpose of the monthly publication. Another publication, drawing its news from University doings, but planned to interest those not in actual attendance on the various collegiate functions and departments, specially written to keep the alumni in touch with University aliairs, is the Alumni VVeekly. This, together with other publications, such as the Engineers' Year Book, The Gopher, and the High School Moiithly, is published in the interest of special organizations and classes. ' . , f '.. 'H' ' i 4... '...'. .... ii i - x'! i HUS from year to year the University has been 1 .al Vin, -' deepening and widening its powers and oppor- Q g tunities. As it has extended its plant in a ,. E ,NI material manner, so from year to year it will 9 Q Riff:-:',' endeavor to raise its standard of education and f. bb gf to occupy a more exalted place among the in- .' Qfin, .,: QQ stitutions of higher learning. Z.',.' . , , , Should the present readers of the Gopher ' 0 ' M return, at the end of a half century, they will find a greater University of lWinnesota, more elaborately equipped, more complete in its organization, more thorough in its scholarship, but hardly more sincere than the University of today in its efforts to give the best that it possesses or to inspire its students with nobler ideals of education and life. 21