University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MT!rrrrriaT T7T?Ta?iarrrwaa i-iTi-i-i in the following pages, to picture in some small manner this con- trast, we feel that our purpose will have been fulfilled. w rf m m Glimpses of Fifty Years T HERE is, as I have said, but one recourse. The state must - • endow the university; and if the state will have the uni versity in its full proportions, let her first count the cost, and take the MILLION FOR HER UNIT. How many people who heard Dr. Folwell say these words in his inaugural address, 1869, believed that they ivere anything but the shadowy visions of an idealistic professor? There were not many reassuring things about the University. From 1851 to 1868, the University had had a dismal history. In 1864, the Old Main was used by a family who kept turkeys in one room, wood in another, and hay in a third. In ' ' 65 a strong effort was made to turn the building over to the use of the state ' s insane. And now, a year after the reorganization of the University, the newly elected president was speaking of appropriations of millions. Today we are nearing the fiftieth anniversary of the reorganiza- tion of the University. The prophecy of Doctor Folwell has long since become a reality. As he goes to his office in the library. Doctor Folwell sees a Minnesota far different from the school he came to reorganize. The old dilapidated main is no longer standing. The barren wastes of the early campus have disappeared. Instead of a faculty of nine men, there is a university of twelve colleges. In the life of a great university, fifty years is not a long time. But the marvelous growth of our university in the past fifty years n makes it impossible to give more than a brief panorama of our short history. Glimpses into years of struggle and privation, years of doubts and crises, but years of a wonderful development. The beautiful scenes of our greater campus, the increase of colleges and departments, the number of student activities today present f a strange contrast to the university of Uncle Billy. If we are able, m m If H m if M If t) IN ■ •? N M l M I? m V M • ' ' » ' » ' « ' i ' « ' » ' J ' i ' i ' »-i ' K ' i ' i»i»i.i ' i-i»i«»-i-i»»»i«i-».K ' »»i.i.i.i.t.i.i ' ».i.i.i.i.i.iC ' »a»T ' i-i ' i-i-i»i»»-»-i-ia-i ' i-i ' i m I? m M