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

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erection of an adequate building was not fulfilled, and at this writing it is uncer- tain whether the Trustees will decide to erect a building which will come Within the limits of Mr. Carnegiels gift or to erect and enclose the walls of a building which will cost, when completed, in the neighborhood of $60,000, trusting to the next legislature to make an appropriation for the completion of the building. Campus improvements In June last, President Merrineld presented the University With $4,000 for the purchase of twenty acres of land lying immediately to the east of the 01d campus. Plans have been drawn up for the future development of the enlarged campus. which, if adopted, will eventually give the University one of the most beautiful institutional grounds in the west. The new library building, according to the plans, is to be located half on the new and half on the old campus directly east of the main building, facing north, and will be the keystone, as it were, of the semi- circular arch of buildings of which the buildings already erected on the old campus constitute the left wing. The existing buildings 011 the west campus will be balanced. by corresponding buildings on the east campus and when the plan is completed, the grounds as a whole will reveal a harmony of design which has been carried out in but few of our American Universities. The past two years have seen a notable development of the University grounds. Under the direc- tion of Professor W'aldron, of the State Agricultural College, the west campus was, two years ago, extensively planted to clumps of shrubbery and graveletl walks Were laid out New Colleges With the establishment of the College of Medicine, foreshadowed in the last Dacotah, and Teacher's College, detailed descriptions of which follow, the out- lines of the future University have been clearly and permanently drawn. Hence- forth the energies of those charged with its management will be devoted to rear- ing the superstructure 0n foundations already laid. Gifts In addition to Mr, Carnegieis gift of $30,000 for a University Library build- ing and of President Merritieldis gift of $4,000 for the purchase of additional ground for the campus, mention must be made of the recent gift by Mr. James J. Hill, of $4,000 for the purchase of books on commerce and transportation for the use of the department of Economies ; the gift in June, 1905, by the Adelphi Society, of a handsome fountain; the gift by the class of 1905, Of mammoth casts in plaster of the Venus Of Melos and Minerva Medical; and the gift by the class of 1906, Of a gateway to the main entrance of the University. Mr. Hillls gift was in response

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New OfEces of President and Registrar

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An 0 .L TN W.llllII-IIIIIA.II-HIIIII-IAIIl-Ill-nl I-lhl'Il-III-I I9 1011 here. Of all these the University makes grateful acknowledgment. $ Mention should be made in closing of the recent removal of the Red River Valley University from Wahpeton and its re- -locati0n, under the name of Wesley ollege, on ample grounds adjoining the University campus on the north. From Whatever point Viewed, the University is flourishing as never before. hIts graduates and former students are becoming widely scattered throughout the state. While the University failed to secure from the last legislature all that it had hoped in the way of support and development, owing largely to political con- ditions of which the University was in a sense an accidental victim, the in- stitution is more firmly planted than ever before in the confidence and respect of the people of the state. Its graduates and former students are occupying posi- tions of honor and responsibility in almost every portion of the commonwealth, - and the University is serving the state and in consequence is enjoying the popular appreciation and moral support of the state to an extent never before realized. w . . 1. X --? ' ' Wh'i'w' 'f't9nv3 l .Vccu-nb', V'WCOIl-f' $0 a request from Dr. James E.Boy1e, head of the department of Economics 0! l 3 I II I f I -- Ihere have been many other minor gifts to the University too numerous for men- - 1W IK !