University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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The Artemisia 1921 V — — 1 I wireless plant cooperates with the government air service. The wireless labora- tory being installed in connection with this station gives another campus open door into a new field of science — an open door for both students and faculty members prepared to enter this realm in which men of daring imagination are weekly achieving new impossibilities. The year records steady upward scholarship trend. With the rising en- rollment and the continuous betterment of University plant and equipment, faculty and students unite in believing that the main work of the University should steadily improve. Higher and more exacting standards for scholarship measurement have been established during the year and the standards already set have been more relentlessly en forced. Certain progress has been made toward that early coming time when good scholarship will be the rule and the shame of the slacker will rest on every student who neglects his main job. Not the least significant event of this great University year was the placing of Nevada ' s University on its approved list by the Association of American Uni- versities. Word of this approval of Nevada ' s rising scholarship standards by America ' s most exacting standardizing authority came last December. In every college of the University this year records definite progress. Arts and Science is alive with plans for more definite work requirement for its diplomas and for its special pre-professional courses and is proud of the rising standards of thoroughness in teacher training which are being set during this first year of its newly reorganized School of Education. Agriculture has widened its offerings of thorough courses scientifically grounding agricultural leaders and calls attention to the strengthening of its homemaking work for the women students enrolled in its School of Home Economics. Engineering, too, moves and moves rapidly. This is the first year in many that the Staff of this College has been complete. Some new equipment has been installed and shops and laboratories have been put into far better working condition than ever be- fore. This College has received special benefits from the coming of the Min- ing Experiment Station and the Federal Wireless plants. Strong as has been the Engineering division of the University in the past years, this division records its highest tide in this year. The general University faculty and its committees have been unusually active and plans are afoot still better to adjust curriculum offerings to the new needs. The year records another Champions-of-the-West Varsity Basket Ball five, a Varsity football season that won general favorable recognition and climaxed with special matched games with America ' s farthest-west University and with Hawaii ' s selected athletic club team, and a Women ' s Varsity basket ball team which made a most creditable season ' s showing. In addition to these unusual achievements in athletics, the year records the first step taken in a program for completing the physical education work of the University. When +,.-

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- The Artemisia 1921 i FOREWORD |HIS University year has been a year of records. It has recorded far the largest enrollment of the University ' s history, largest enroll- ment in grand total, 709, in total for the regular University year, apart from all short courses, 556, and in the total of students for the regular University year from Nevada ' s own schools, 336. Each of these figures records in its class that appreciable but not overwhelming growth which our University needs. If the same absolute growth is continued, September of 1 922 will bring the enrollment limitation policy of the University into opera- tion, for it will bring an enrollment of 6C ' 0 or more regular students for the semester then beginning. The year has recorded the completion of two important new campus build- ings. No other year of the University ' s history has ever dedicated two main buildings or has ever witnessed the expenditure of so large a sum in permanent buildings. The beautiful Education building suggests clearly the new west line of the academic quadrangle and stands as a fair model for the other three buildings which will eventually come to complete the west and east sides of this academic quadrangle, as the Regents are now planning it. The Mines Experiment building completes the housing for the expanded mining work of the campus, affording as it does ample space for experimental work in rare and the precious metals for the whole United States. The year records the arrival upon our campus of two new and nationally important Federal agencies, the Mining Experiment Station and the Federal Wireless Station. The Experiment Stat ion staff of experts will serve not only Nevada but the whole nation through their researches into the mysteries of rare and precious metals. The quality of the Staff is evidenced by the fact that their leader, the Superintendent of our new Station, is one of the nation ' s three or four greatest experts in radium; the perfection of the equipment of the new Station is evidenced by the fact that six box car loads of specialized machinery is now being placed in the new building. One little but mighty item of this unusual equipment consists of a small case containing six tubes of radium valued at over $60,000. Such men, with such equipment, will be sure to add lustre to the University ' s crown. The year in which the National government sent such a rare combination to our campus is made notable by this event alone. Not satisfied with such honor won, the year also drew the Federal Wireless Station to our campus hill. Every day magic messages defy space as this ,. — 4.

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