University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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+ — — —— ' The Artemisia 1921

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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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«r 4.„ .. . „ xhe Artemisia 1921 — ' — ■ ♦ fully developed, this program will schedule all men and women of the student body to receive both such theoretical and such practical training in the sane laws of body-building as will give them right health habits and will make them effective citizen promoters of family and of community hygiene. The Military training is being developed most ably to cooperate wher ever it touches this phy- sical education program and the Hospital Association is most successfully com- pleting the second year of applied hygienic service to the whole student body. Along with the hard work and in the reasonably frequent intervals between stretches of straight work, the Campus generally has enjoyed life. Class, fra- ternity, sorority, dormitory and faculty social events have been happy, red- letter affairs. The many student organizations have been alert and busy in plans to better the campus conditions and the college life. Another national fraternity has established a chapter in our University. The debaters, the actors and actresses of the University plays, the editors and managers of the college publications, the Block N and Gothic N hosts and hostesses of the largest num- ber of visiting high school teams in our history — all have contributed to enrich the campus life. There have been some mistakes but they have been errors of exuberance and not outcroppings of either unsocial or anti-social spirit. On the whole, we have been happy, cooperant, friendly in all our relations. Yes — he who runs may read and reading, know that this has been a record year at our University. WALTER E. CLARK. V .Atj . 1 ..—4. .4