University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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a limits? Tue Minnesota Union The plans for The Union comprise several excellent features which will appeal to all men of the University. The basement has a floor space of 23,716 square feet, accommodating eleven standard bowling alleys and seating space for 600 spectators. Besides, two-thirds of basement is vacant thus allowing for future expansion or development of new activities not now planned for in the building. The first Hoor also has like Hoor space accommodating the offices of the Board of Governors and the Y M C A check rooms for l 500 people several assembly rooms and the Varsity Commons seating more than l 000 people in the mam and private adlolnmg dining rooms The ladies dining room IS one of these The second floor has a slightly smaller floor area Here is the living room grand hall the foyer and the theatre all of which extend through the third floor Faculty rooms billiard pool card and smoking rooms are also on this floor The third Hoor has about I3 000 square feet besides two extensive open balconies and two promenades The visitors gallery overlooking the living room the balcony of the theatre and two promenades overlooking the grand hall are all on a level with this floor Here also are eight bedroom suites for University guests and four large rooms for assembly purposes and other uses not yet designated i ALBERT E.. JENKS. 2I l

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,,.,,,..,,4...,.,.,. .. Mc.: ,..,...,.4.4i- ss, -':.,.,..-.g,.,s....usas.g..A W ' f ,L :4g,M g3.L,:, 4,9 ,, . .............,. ,An ,,,,, to trust his judgment and his fairness implicitly and his estimates and recommenda- tions are almost always approved by them. For years Dean Jones was the Faculty Director of Athletics, appointed as such by the Board of Regents, and in that office he succeeded in enforcing the regulations of the Faculty and in controlling the sometimes erratic ebullitions of student passion. l-le is young in his feelings. Students find him eminently frank, fair and sympathetic. No man is more capable of using words that will perfectly convey his meaning, and no student need ever misunderstand him. l-le will do everything he can to meet the wishes of students, and no student will ever induce him to do anything which he does not think is consistent with the best interests of the college. He is one of the most companionable of men. l-le has been a member of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Min- nesota in virtue of holding the Professorship of Physics. l-le has also been the Dean of the College of Engineering. No one could have been more loyal and just to both positions than he has been. l-le has never forgotten that he graduated at Yale in the classical course and has never ceased to value that course, though his own special Work has been in science and in the promotion of engineering. l-le is firm, outspoken, and eminently courageous. He is wise in administration. Yale College is to be congratulated most heartily on securing him for Dean. l may be pardoned for saying that l know he would not leave me even for the very honorable position in Yale to which he has been called, if I had resisted his leav- ing, but l have been willing to have him go to Yale because I think he will do Yale a great deal of good. But I shall part with him with the deepest regret- l lose from my daily companionship a loyal and delightful friend and Yale Col- lege gains a first class Dean, who will be an inspiration to his colleagues, a leader in University development, and a gracious and helpful friend to the students-sym- pathizing with them most heartily in both their manly sports and their scholarly studies. CFrom a letter written May 5, 1908, for publication in the Yale News, upon request of the editorj ' za. sf - ee- -a-as-:sw-W--ww, sms---faqewf-sg-W5.,...Lx -sw: ,,. --f-- 1 20 .,....a.a.,.,,,,, , Y.,

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We Itasca Summer School 020 I-IE first session of the Itasca Summer School of Forestry opened July l, l908. The headquarters were located on the east shore of the north arm of Lake Itasca, one mile from the point where the Miss- issippi steals secretly from the lake on its 2,000-mile journey to the gulf, and some twenty-eight miles from Park Rapids. The former home of the Park Commissioner furnished the sometimes necessary school rooms and the crude office and library. A rough dining hall, built in true lumberjack style4 but airy and comfortable-was located on the lake shore and was capable of accommodating sixty people. That sounds luxurious, but the building with all its equipment cost about 95200. To the northward a single row of 9x9 tents stretch along the shore, the dormitory. I There were some eighteen men following up the lines of surveying, botany, silviculture and forest mensuration, entomology and nature study. High school boys and college graduates worked side by side in this interest- ,ass sr: .. ,. eamdcvassniaaasiul aisA1, i:bKiam.aeLa2eanr.z'2f-af,5sfrxL?f:.L2'1Lif.4.-:Lux5Sambasetx1GtGa2gQ:4GE:zf:3r-wc7lJmwSi',5:r.::Lrzz:azu3Ac:r 22 we fare fm: cfm yszztszfrrevrmis 223123- 1. 4 5 wir