University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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PIGNEERS OF THE NIVERSITY PON the occasion of the Commencement Exercises for the Class of I o , it is ex ected to assemble here all of the 9 4- P ioneers of the Universit , who in the earl da s of efforts to create an institution of hi her education in the P Y Y Y 8 State gave to it their best energies. I say all of these-not that it is possible for all the good and true men and women who have been conspicuously identified with the building of the University to gather here at the same time, for some of these have already passed the portals that divide time from eternity, and others have made their homes in distant States and foreign lands. But even these we believe will be here in spirit, for a man's best thoughts become so wrought into the work of his hands and the creations of his brain that their force is felt and appreciated through all the changing days and years that follow. Upon this Commencement occasion it is intended to do fitting honor to the men to whose wisdom and guidance the University owes its existence and such measure of prosperity and success as has attended it. Y It is my purpose to mention here only those -who are not now connected with the University and with whom it has been my good fortune to be personally acquainted. If the words that I shall write take the form of personal impressions and reminiscences of the persons and events considered, and if I am not quite able to avoid the use of the personal pronoun in this writing, I beg to be forgiven the apparent bad taste. The years of service, during which the University's best interests have been my highest aim and Strongest desire, have given me much more than an impersonal feeling toward everything that makes for her success or failure. My connection with the University began October Ist, 1891, and at that time the buildings owned by the University were but four in number-Morrill Hall, Stewart Hall, the Mining Building and the Experiment Station Building. They were not an imposing set of buildings, but the buildings are only a small part of what goes to make a University. The power that existed in the faculty of the Uni- versity and in the students who came under their instruction was the vi.tal and effective principle. The faculty consisted almost entirely of men in the prime of young manhood, not so full of learning as the faculties of solder institu- 23