University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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V President [oseeh Edward Stubbs. AM asked to write of Our University for the Artemisia of Nineteen Hundred and Two. There is a sense of pos- session of ownership, of strong personal interest in the phrase Our University, which reallv touches keenly the vitality of college life. To the genuine college man, the University which environs him through four vears of student life, which widens his horizon and deepens his convictions and cultures his taste is, in the truest sense, his uivii University. He has given much but he has received more. The after vears of experience in active life will reveal to him that in thought, feeling and habit he is ever tethered to the center of his University campus. Graduation Day marks a change, as a rule, in the views and feelings of the college man. The accidental tollies and the incidental vanities fall from him. The solid acquirements of his vears of studv and scholarly com- panionship, his unconscious growth into high moral and intellectual ideals are sketched clear and strong in him. The vears that follow grad- H I

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CAPTAIN HOLLIS CHENERY CLARK, Professor of Mili- tary Science and Tactics. U. S. Army, Retired. MILDRED MAUDE WHEELER, Instructor in German. B. A., Nevada State University, 1895. M. A., University ot California, 186S, SAMUEL BRADFORD DOTEN, Instructor in Mathematics and Entomology. B. A., Nevada State University, 1S9S. KATE BARDENWERPER, Instructor in Domestic Arts and Science. Graduate of Armour Institute of Technology, igoci. ADA DAY EDWARDS, Instructor in Hygiene and Physical Trainiftg for Women . I.eland .Stanford Junior University. ANNA HENRIETTA MARTIN, Lecturer on the History of Art. B. A., Nevada State University, 1894. B. A., I.eland Stanford Junior I ' nive-isity, 1896; M. A., 1X1 7. LEWIS ANDREW DARLING, Instructor in Mechamical En- gineering and Drawing. B. M. E , Kentucky State College, lyot. MRS. ALICE L. LAYTON, Instructor in Focal Music. (Graduate New England Conservatory of Mirsic. HARRY HERBERT DEXTER, Librarian. B. .A., Nevada State University, 1899. MRS. NETTIE WEIDMAN BLUME, Mistress of the Girls ' Cottage. ELIZABETH S. STUBBS, Office Secretary. B. A., Nevada State University, 1S99. 13

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nation, but fill out the mould of the college man or of the college woman. The stamp of the University is upon him, upon her, tor all com- ing years. Our University is enrolled among the smaller Universities of the Great Republic of the United States, and holds its place too, bv wav of distinction, in the Commonwealth of least population. But I do not know of any state or country which has accomplished so much for higher education in so short a time as the State of Nevada. I do not speak of this in a spirit of boasting, for 1 am too conscious ot how much is vet to be done to justify us in claiming laurels, but simply to give the just word ot praise to the people of Nevada who have directed with sustained interest and untaltering courage through the short period of tburteen years the upbuilding of their State University. Our Universitv is scarcely old enough to have a history, but she has the record ot tburteen years of steadv growth. Almost every year has seen a new building upon the campus. They are all of them buildings of moderate cost. Every dollar has been squeezed to the duty ot being useful. The stvle of the first buildings is not wholly pleasing. That of the later buildings con- forms to the more approved taste in good building. The notable improvements upon the campus this year are the Chemistry Building and the Student Hospital. Modest appropriations for these buildings were made by the Legislature ot 190) ; twelve thousand dollars for the former and three thousand five hundred dollars tor the latter. The Regents of the University tbund extreme difficulty in erecting suitable buildings, the cost ot which should not exceed the amount appropriated. They have, however, displayed rare judgment in handling the monev at their command, and have to their credit two of the best and most tasteful buildings upon the campus. The Chemical Building is of stone from the old prison wall. Thanks to the State Controller, the Hon. Sam P. Davis, and to Dr. W. H. Patterson, Superintendent of the Asylum, the Legislature of 1901 passed an act granting the stone of the old prison wall to the build- ing needs and uses of the Asylum and the State University. The architecture of the Chemical Building is very simple, tor the sake of economy, yet it is satisfying to the cultivated taste. The 15