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The Neiu Library Seventeen
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A GREATER MINNESOTA I HEN our beloved and re -ered first president, William Watts Fohveli, who is only ninety-three years of age at this writing, completes his four-volume history of the State of Minnesota, puts on the press his contemplated text book of elementary politi- cal science for the preparatory schools, and finishes the reminiscences of his wonderful life, we hope that before he begins his well earned vacation he will write a detailed history of the University of Minnesota, a book to which we can always refer for items (if information in the life of the institution from 1851 to 1933, the year of Dr. Folweil ' s one hundredth birthday. The following sketch can but merely sug- gest the development of the University from 1868 to the present and a glimpse ahead. Practically all universities have had their days of small beginnings, growing steadily at a fairly normal rate with certain excep- tional variations as at Minnesota when in 1919 came that leaping increase of sixty- seven per cent in enrollment. One exception to this generally accepted experience of university development was the University of Chicago which wasn ' t born like most educational institutions, but like Min- erva sprang full grown from the head of Jove. A university organization maj ' be likened to a great wheel with the hub at the center and spokes radiating out to the encompassing rim — the hub representing the cultural center of the institution, the spokes the vocational or professional opportunities growing out of this center and background. In 1868 Minne- sota was virtually a college with a classical curriculum, the hub of the wheel which was to follow. Its full name was the College of Science, Literature, and the Arts, called by the students the academic department. Eighteen hundred and seventy-one saw the beginning of the first spoke — the establish- ment of the College of Engineering and the Mechanic Arts which is now the College of Engineering and Architecture. Its activities later centered around what was called the Mechanic Arts Building, now the School of Business Building. The second spoke in the wheel was the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics — a three-fold curriculum em- braced in one administrative unit. The Agricultural part began in 1871, Forestry in 1905, and Home Economics in 1910. For many j ' ears the wheel made no material progress. Then in 1888 came a rapid suc- cession of spokes. Law, Medicine, Dentistry, and Mines came into being almost simultane- ously, although buildings and equipment did not follow immediately. The progress was The Agricultural Adminislration Building Eighteen
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