University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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reached the degree of excellence by which we may class them as veterans. Perhaps more time and larger experience arc necessarv. 1 am quite sure that the quality of self-denial must be developed in a higher degree. Self-indulgence, sight-seeing and social pleasure must be ban- ished from the thought of every football man when he is abroad to win honor for his University and approval for himself The newest school in the University is that of Domestic Arts and Science, with Miss Kate Bardenwerper in charge. Although the Regents have had such a department as this in mind for several years, they have not been able to carry out their plans until this year. The Department of Domestic Arts and Science is a technical school for young women. It aims to give scientific and practical training in house- wifery. Through a course of four years, the student pursues in a scholarly and practical wav her studies in cookery, sewing, dressmaking and millinery. But the cultural subjects are not wanting. She has mathematics, draw- ing, English, French, history of art and history, along with flower gardening, chemis- try and house sanitation. The third floor of Stewart Hall has been arranged and equipped for the use of this department. When the girls have put on their domestic uniforms of white aprons and white head dresses and are engaged in their domestic studies, the old Assembly Hall is a bower of beauty and grace. Miss Bardenwerper is a graduate of the Armour Institute ot Chicago, and is an accomplished and enthusiastic teacher in this new school which will become very popular when its advantages are fully known to the people of our State. There are many girls who do not wish to pursue the usual subjects of the High School and the College. Such will find the School of Domestic Arts and Science suited to their tastes and interests. But let it be said that the first duty of every girl and every young woman is to become skilled in the art and science of the house and the home, including the garden and the greenhouse. It is a subject ot regret that the entrance gates to the University grounds have not been completed according to the plans considered last year. The Class ot I 901 could not meet the expenses of building sections of stone fence running east and west from the small foot gates, and the University, from lack of money, is not yet able to take up the work and complete it according to the plans. As soon as the

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skill belong to the disciplines of college study, but practice in the things of action belongs to college life. College education looks to the com- plete man, the complete woman. Life is many sided. The weakness of much of modern educational method is acquirement made easy. The peril of modern college life is to be on pleasure bent. Simple pleasures are to be cultivated. Out-door recreation which brings into play all the bodily powers, which makes for fellowship with sun and air, earth and sky, mountain and plain, trees and shrubs, has a vital rela- tion to the life strenuous or the life beautiful and successful. Health is wealth. Intellect and sentiment — the social element — is not wanting in genuine sport. In the University, football, basketball, track events and tennis meet the requirements of well-balanced pleasure for college students. The cultivation of a taste for outdoor lite, tor health-givmg sport, in a University like ours is exceptionally important. The range ot social pleasure is exceedingly limited. One may count upon the fingers ot one hand the prevailing forms of social pleasure in this State, and scarcely one of these belongs to outdoor life. College athletics properly governed minister to the advantages ot a larger and richer college training. They are the condiment to the varied good things of scholarship and skill. To me our tbotball season this year was both gratifying and disappointing. P The interest of the students during the season of practice was stronger and better L sustained than during any former term. The coaching was well done, and the gen- eral management of men and games fairlv satisfactory. We all learned some valuable lessons from the season ' s experience. In the first place, the football season was too prolonged. The men were kept in training too many weeks. This operated untavorablv in two ways: it kept men out of their classes more frequently than was desirable, and it permitted a distinct loss of enthusiasm and power. In the next place, the two large games, one with the Universitv of California team and the other the Stanford University team, came too close together. No team, however well seasoned the men mav be, should play two strong match games of football within the same week. The score ot the game with Utah was far from gratifying. Our men did not do their best work. In mv judgment, our football men made marked progress and showed a capacity for strong and even brilliant work, but have not yet

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new caps have been placed upon the main pillars, the large and beautitLiI electric lamps, the gift of the Class of 1900, will be put in place upon the top of the pillars. The hopefulness of youth and the firm high purpose ot younger manhood represent figtirativeK ' the Nevada State Universitv of to-dav. Its face is turned toward the future. It has no wealthy patrons. Gifts ot monev and buildings do not gladden the hearts ot its regents and alumni from year to year. With its verv limited income from the State and the Federal Government, the Univer- sity seeks to maintain the standards ot the best colleges. It has constant regard to the conditions ot society in this vast Western State — conditions that are not wholly favor- able to the ideals of scholarship, technical skill and character. It offers an open wav to the sturdy, vigorous, undisciplined voung life ot our State to the wider fields ot knowledge, skill and culture. I believe that Our University will continue to grow into a more cultured Republic of Letters, into a higher School ot Technical Knowledge and Skill and into a State distinguished tor its keen sense of Civic Responsibility. As I close this sketch of things done and things hoped for, I am oppressed with a sense ot what is especially lacking in our student life here. In- dependent scholarly tastes and habits are among the foremost of our student deficiencies. The get-through-the-recitation and the oiih-pais- ing-grade spirit still are prevailing faults, and in ideas of conduct we still fall below the standard of genuine distinguishing college life. One ot the bravest men that fell at the Battle of Gettysburg was General Pettigrew, who wore the gray of the Confederate cause. Pettigrew was in college days a son of the Universitv of North Carolina. While still a student he wrote a treatise on the integral calculus. He was a college man of the type which this Commonwealth will expect her University to give back to her, honor and service. Pettigrew, it is said, had the wisdom of a philosopher, the courage of a soldier, and the modesty of a woman. 21