University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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ing field work-for at least nine- tenths of the work was done in the Held. The routine school work was, however, but a part of the benefits of such a course. The opportunity to study the life of the great north woods was the great factor. Some there were, who departed August l3th no wiser than when they had come, save for the little they had been forced to absorb in the class work, but all the lovers of the out- side world had received a pretty good introduction to the Red Gods. The lake stretched away to the north, the south and the southeast, filled with fish and surrounded with pine-clad hills interrupted here and there by the lighter green of tamarack swamps. Douglas Lodge, at the south end of the east arm, with its summer boarders, gave the tinge of civilization so pleasant to some. More or less distinct trails lead through all the known types of the northern forests to beautiful springs and small hidden lakes, While he who heard the call of the wild had but to plunge from the trail and was soon beyond all trace of human kind in the natural tangle of the silent places where he might at any moment come unexpectedly upon the yet undetermined ultimate source of the Father of Vvaters. The park afforded 22,000 acres of game preserve, where deer, moose, bear, grouse, beaver, mink, porcupines, wolves and ducks live undisturbed and unafraid. The curious and cautious woodsman found them easy of ap- proach. Such was the life of the summer school. To the lover of the noises of the city it was one. long continuous boreg to the true camper and lover of the forest life, a joy and a revelation. E. G. CI-IEYNEY. MW- far' iff- wmwslswrtanav .:'s-.1rrmuvL2!aMit1.5:1-7wz1,e:.sirf'zww'.s 1 I waxwfwamzimzmn,:n,Tt2ee:aa!sz2Lra:i:relma:-W-m,w,.r.fzws:.aH::i:r.a.:, ... Xi:..1.5a'f!.1a2Eia':gt+.L:.s.2t, .Q4ursz1:mf:.1:f..51Q2ita:aEwst' 23