University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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T8 THE DIGEST Tuition at the University is free eXcept in the Law School and in the aliiliated schools. There is a nominal matriculation fee of five dollars, and a diploma fee. There is a laboratory deposit re- quired for materials used and apparatus injured, in a number of the Departments. Practically the institution opens its doors to all the sons and daughters of the State and to all students wher- ever their homes, without discrimination. The broad and hos- pitable spirit of a genuine University is seen in its foundation and in its endeavors and its work. THE EQUIPMENT OF TI-IE UNIVERSITY. The campus of the University covers four squares in a central location in the City of Lincoln. It is easily accessible from all railway stations. Upon the campus are located the large Uni- versity Hall, the Chemical Laboratory, Grant Memorial Hall, Nebraska Hall, the Electrical Laboratory and Shops, and the large modern Library building. The University farm, con- nected by electric railway with the University, consists of 320 acres of cultivated land. On the farm are the Agricultural- Chemical laboratory, the Farm and Dairy School building, the Pathobiological laboratory, etc. The library of the University consists of the general library anda series of departmental libraries. There are some 33,000 volumes in the general library alone. The laboratories are pro- vided with modern facilities and equipped with the most recent ap p aratus. FACULTY. At the present writing there are 141 professors and instructors, assistants and employes of all kinds. Many of the professors have an international reputation. There is full recognition of the sharp distinction between a professor and a pedagogue or ordinary teacher. The highest ideals are maintained as a stan- -dard by Which the college professor and instructor is a man of special training, prepared to be an investigator as well as a teacher. STUDENTS. t The enrollment of students is increased this year to 1,650, as compared with 1,509 a year ago, and this despite the financial

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 77 at the service of those who are to be leaders in the entire school system. To meet the present requirements of industrial education in the state, the University has established a School of Mechanic Arts, with a two years' practical course that receives students of sufhcient age from graded schools. In like manner there is a School of Agriculture and a Dairy School that takes the boys and girls from the farm and returns them to the farm prepared to use applied science in improved farming. These two schools, it is expected, will become model schools, to be imitated in connec- tion with technical schools to be established in conjunction with the high schools in several counties in the state. These schools incidentally look toward encouraging students to enter the col- legiate schools of Engineering or the College of Agriculture. For six years past the University has maintained one of the two Sugar Schools in the United States. The University, mindful of its many-sided relations to the state, has offered courses in University Extension, under which, in a very practical form, are included Farmers' Institutes. A School of Music and Fine Arts is afliliated with the University, in which, pending the opening of the College of Fine Arts, in- struction is given in every grade of instrumental and vocal music, in drawing, painting, wood carving, modeling, and the his- tory of art. Through the voluntary service of the Botanical Seminar and members of the University faculty, in connection with aid from the general government, a botanical and a geolog- ical survey of the state have been begun. The Regents of the University have, entrusted to their charge, the United States Ex- periment Station for purposes of investigation in agricultural sub- jects and for thc diffusion of agricultural knowledge by the pub- lication of bulletins. A United States lVeather Bureau Station has been established at the University, and a Museum in connec- tion with it has also been started. A review of what has been mentioned thus far, shows that the University is not simply a multiform school for higher instruc- tion, but that it is also a practical servant of the State in almost every conceivable direction. It is a depository for knowledge and a center for the diffusion of it.

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM depression and the cutting oi of the Preparatory Department. The students are for the most part mature young men and Women peculiarly earnest in their pursuit of an education, and many of them working their way through college. The ages range from fifteen years to fifty-six years. They are stalwart Nebraskans, with an intermingling of students from twenty-two other states. The University is assuming its rank as the largest trans-Missise sippi University with the exception of the University of Cali- fornia. The students maintain a great variety of college organi- zations ranging from the religious and literary to the athletic field. ORGANIZATION. 1 The University was originally founded by an Act of the Leg- islature which took effect February 15, 1869. The government of the University is vested in a Board of Regents of six members elected by popular vote for terms of six years. The Regents elect the Chancellor, who in the law is called the chief educator of the State. He is the names between the Regents and the Faculty, of which he is a member. The Regents also select the members of the Faculty. The Faculty is ordinarly the legisla- tive body, initiating the purely educational measures of the in- stitution and entrusted with the discipline of the students. REVENUES. The revenues of the University are derived from ra tax of three- eighths of a mill per dollar upon the grand assessment roll of the State and from the income from land leases and sales under the Land Grant Act of Congress. There is also a money grant from the United States. The University is also possessed of cer- tain lands reserved for the endowment of the University. The Legislature of the State that has just adjourned made pro- vision to meet the shrinkage in the income of the University and voted money for the erection of the wing of a new building for the College of Mechanic Arts. It is clearly the determination of the people of Nebraska that the eliiciency of its University shall be maintained unimpaired.