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

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Progress of the University during the Past Two Years the most prosperous in the history of the University. The total student enrollment has increased during that time from 637 to 856, an increase of more than 34 per cent, while the attendance of strictly college grade has in- creased during the same time from 201 to 330, an increase of 64 per cent. During the past two years the number of professors and instructors, exclusive of lecturers in the Schools of Law and Medicine, has increased from 36 to 40, and the total instructional force from 45 to 50. The increase in attendance for the school year 1906-7, over the school year 1905-6, was 17 per cent as against an increase of 15 per cent for the year previous. Perhaps there is no better indication of the growth of the University than the increase from year to year in the size of its graduating classes. The Class Of 1902 graduated 28 students; of 1903, 33; of 1904, 52; of 1905, 54; and of 1906, 72. The present senior class is the largest in the history of the institution. New Buildings The legislative session of 1904-5 made an appropriation to take care of a large part of the Heating indebtedness of the University, but made no provision for new buildings. The University, therefore, is housed in the same narrow quarters as two years ago except that the Law School has occupied, during the present year, the entire top floor of the Clifford building, in Grand Forks, in- stead of barely half of the top floor as heretofore. While the recent session of the legislature did not give the University anything like all that was asked for or anything like enough to meet urgently pressing needs, it did appropriate $25,- 000 for an assembly hall and gymnasium, $20,000 for a School of Mines building, $10,000 for the construction of a sewer from the University to connect with the City sewer system'of Grand Forks, $10,000 for needed repairs to Davis Hall, and between $18,000 and $19,000 with Which to meet the repairs made to the main building during the past summer. In May, 1906, Mr. Carnegie, after repeated solicitations from President Merrifield, generously offered to contribute $30,000 toward the erection of a library building on the University grounds. The hope that the legislature, at its recent session, would supplement this gift by an added $30900, and thus make possible the ' I 'HE period covered since the last issue of the Daeotah has been notably 21

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J- ' IIIIII-l-lllailI-IIl-III'AI-I-I-l-I-I-IAIIIIIISHEBF gw'eaxinsw' 'Gumwa H'sccmnil l'mtvqu f honesty, large- minded and tolerant yet fearless 1n standing by his fundamental ife-principles. 4 A keen student and interpreter of human nature, Professor Woodworth was g natural teacher. Socratic-like he probed a topic, and sophistry on parade was $6 was merciless toward all shams and hypocrisy. He was the soul of honor and con compelled to doff the mask. He had, too, what all teachers should have, a ein of humor; this ranged in him from the sly and playful smile or twinkle to the humorous outburst of laughter, in which all joined and were the better for. These occasions were the happy Havering of an earnest and dignifled bearing and personality. Taken all 111 all, Professor Woodworth was a rare man. His co-laborers on the Faculty, alumni and students, and indeed all who knew him realize more than ever, now that he has passed from among us, that they shall seldom look upon his like again. He leaves to a wife and two daughters, Mrs. W. A. Gordon and Mrs. C. M. Cooley, of Grand Forkswthe latter at one time Assistant Professor of Educa- tion at the University-the best heritage that a husband and father can leave, not wealth, but the heritage of a good name and a noble life.

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New OfEces of President and Registrar