University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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difficult to say whether debate or football commands the more undivided and enthusiastic support of the student body. 'ln the year IQO3 football relations between the Agricultural College and the University were suspended owing to conditions for which doubtless neither side was wholly to blame and neither wholly blameless. These relations were happily renewed in 1904 and in the two games played between the Agricultural College and the University, o11e at Fargo and the other at Grand lforks, the University was in both instances victorious. llasketball has been well supported at the Linivcrsity. During each of the two yea.rs past our girls' team has won the championship of the state. The men's basketball team was organized at the beginning of the present school year and has been but twice defeated, both times by the team representing the Agricultural College. The glee and mandolin clubs have been well supported during the past two years and have each year made a successful concert trip during the Easter vaca- tion. During the present school year the Trustees voted S3500 toward the equipment of a University band with the result that a band has been started here and is now in a flourishing condition. At the close of the last school year the conduct of the Student magazine was entrusted to the senior class and during the present year the STUDENT has appeared as a weekly instead of a monthly publication. W'hile there has not been a marked increase in the enrollment as a whole, there has been a notable increase in the membership of all the upper classes, particularly in the college department. The last graduating class numbered fifty-two members as against thirty-three for the year before. The present graduating class will number nearly or quite sixty members. This brief summary of the happenings of the last two years, while it has no great events to relate, indicates a condition of sustained and healthy growth in all departments of the institution.

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Faculty ALL DEPARTMENTS EXCEPT THAT OF LAW VVIIIBSTICR MliRRll ll2l.lD, M. A. l'RESlDEN'l' or 'rinc UNiviaiesl'rY AND PROFESSOR OF l'tH.I'l'It'AI, AN11 soeml. scnaNei:. President Merrifield was born at Williamsville, Vt. llc was graduated from Yale in 1877, and taught for the next two years in a private school at Newburg, N. Y. For four years he held a position at Yale as tutor in the classics and niatheniaties. ln 1883 he was appointed to the chair of Latin and Greek in the newly established University of North Dakota. In 189i he was advanced to the presidency, which position he has held for the last fifteen years. GEORGE S. THOMAS, M. A., Ph. D. 1'RoFEssoR or T1-ns GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGIQS AND Li'1'ERA'rUREs AND DEAN or Tina c'nI.r.i2GE OF LIBERAL Airrs. Born in Richmond Va., graduated with degree of M. A. from University of Virginia in 18795 studied in Universities of Berlin and Leipsig, receiving degree of Ph. D. from the latter. He was elected to his present position in 1893. 'X 16