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

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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 !

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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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A Q22 :H: 1 DEPARTMENTS 4N College of Liberal Arts HE College Of Liberal Arts, long the only college in the University, is now one of six. The purpose of the more recently established colleges is to provide special preparation for particular professions. The College Of Liberal Arts aims, in its undergraduate department, to give a liberal education. Such an education signifies wfaculties trained for future work in any directionfl ' This ideal of its training the College has ever kept fixed, though it has. from time to time, Changed its requirements for graduation. At present they include ill prescribed courses; tZl courses elective within groups; and tSl free electives. The prescribed courses are such as are thought essential to a liberal education; the courses elective within groups prevent smattering and secure the benefit of advanced work in some line; while the free electives afford the opportunity either for a broader culture or for greater specialization, as the student desires. The undergraduate enrollment of the college has increased twenty-five per cent in the past two years, despite the fact that, by the establishment of other colleges within the University many have been drawn away who, under other conditions, would have enrolled in it. Graduate work, already quite successfully begun, will he developed as rapidly as the resources of the college will permit. College of Mining Engineering FTHIS college aims to give a strong technical and practical trainingr which will fit young men to fill successfully important positions in the various branches of mining and the allied industries. The University has reason to be proud of the work of the College of Mining Engineering and the standing of its graduates, who are filling responsible and remunerative positions in various mining regions. An important part of the work of this college is in what might be called the de partment of experimentation. All kinds of practical investigation of the natural resources of the state are taken up with a view to proving by actual tests their economic value as well as the best methods for their utilization. It is the ambition of the College of Mining Engineering to serve the state in every possible way, and especially by sending out young men who shall be well fitted to Fill important positions in their profession with credit to themselves and the University and who shall have sufficiently high and broad views to become active, useful, and noble members of society. w U1