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

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Alma Mater Hail to thee, 0 Alma Mater! Hail to thee with heart and tongue! Pride we feel and love yet greater, While We raise the grateful song. Home of lofty thought and learning Beacon o'er our western land, Shrine whence still the ever burning Torch is passed from hand to hand. Free as roam our winds the prairie, Thought and speech here unconfined, Free as eagles round their eyrie, Soar, proud offspring of the mind, Love of freedom, love of duty, Love of truth without a bound, Valor in their sons, and beauty In thy daughters all, be found. Alma Mater! thine the glory, If or thought of ours or deed, Find a place in song or story, Win endeavoris glorious meed. Prosper ever, fostering mother! Down the ages long resound Loud thy fame, while many another Finds in thee what we have found.

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The U niversity Today The oldest and mast comprehensive term in educational history is that of uni- Versity. :5 55 at It is the business of a university to teach known truth, to discover new truth by research, to publish and disseme inate knowledge, to develop skill and power in the professions, and to create a spirit of service which will result in wise and useful leadership for society. In order to do this. it should possess a college which is the most advanced instiution for general training and liberal culture, it should have a graduate school for training mature and liberally edu- cated men and women to carry on investiga- tion, it should have a group of schools afford- ing training of the highest type in other pro- fessions, and there should he a system 0f university extension which will carry Ignowt- edge to the people for their cultivation and the bettering of the common life. So organ- ized, the university is the culmination of the system of education, and it should co-ordin- ate, strengthen and develop the work of altreFrom Report of Virginia Educa- tional Commission, I9 I 2. N the 22nd of February last the University of North Dakota celebrated the thir- tieth anniversary of its founding. The Founders, Day program, among other in- teresting features, included an address in the morning by Professor Squires on uThe History of the University and another in the evening by President McVey on llThe University of TOvDayf, These combined addresses made an interesting story of progress. The signal facts in the development of a University relate to its organization. its equipment, its faculty, its student body, the adequacy of its teaching work, and its public service activities. In all of these ways the University of North Dakota has gone steadily forward. Early Statistics The first published Presidentls Report, submitted June l5, l886, reviews the work of three departments or colleges,ea Preparatory Department, a Normal Department, and a College of Letters and Attaewith a faculty of eight and a student attendance of forty-eight. The freshman class numbered eight, three in the Arts and hve in the Science courses. One building, thld Main housed the work of all departments and served as well as dormitory ancl commons. The equip- ment was most meager, and the appropriation for all purposes was $38,000.