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

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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

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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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College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering HE College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering while one of the I youngest colleges of the University, having been established in 1901, stands second to none when the grade of work done is considered. That . the work is of a high-grade is shown by the fact that it won a silver medal for the University at the St. Louis Exposition, and one of the greatest engineering1 colleges in the land has accepted its graduates as candidates for post graduate 1 work Without conditions, To this college belongs the honor of being the hrst of the colleges of this University to have one of its recent graduates called as an instructor to one of the great eastern universities, an honor which might well be coveted by many an older institution. Its graduates are all filling responsible positions, such as Manager of a Cement Manufactory, Superintendent of a Street Railway Company Instructor in Ma- chine Design in a leading university or have charge of responsible work 111 the Designing or Constructional Departments of some of our largest engineering concerns. Thus it is seen that they are achieving success in various lines, 111- dieating that though the courses offered are primarily technical, thev are broad and thorough,n1aking an excellent foundation for a successful engineering careel The success of the graduates of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering 15 most gratif3ing to all who a1e interested in North Dakota and its State University. College of Law HERE are but few Changes to be noted in the College of Law since the pub- I lieation of the last Daeotah. Its courses of instruction have been strength cncd and membership increased. Larger quarters have been obtained, making possible the proper installation of the Law library. Although the school is still young its graduates are already spreading over the state and will become prominent in their respective localities. They will be found espousing,r different social and political ereeds but will be united, it is hoped and believed, in a com- mon desire for good citizenship and good government. There will always be stalwarts and insurgents and democrats and mugwumps among their number, and it is well that there should be. The province of the Law School is not to laet as a feeder or recruiting ground for any political faction 011 party. Its province is to teach the law as it is, legal history as it has actually developed, the cases that have actually been decided, and the reasoning which has controlled them, and the arguments which can and heme been made for and against every mooted proposition. lts duty is above all to insist upon that candid and honest attitude of mind which seeks after truth and follows conVietion wherever it may lead. Teachers, College EACHERS' College. whose primary function is the preparation of teachers I and administrative ofhcers for the high schools of the state, was established in 1905. From fifty to one hundred new high school teachers are required each year in North Dakota. and it was in response to this demand that Teachers College was established. It is now universally admitted that teachers should