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

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PRESENT STATISTICS Organization The Annual Report of the President for 1911-12 shows an organ- ization developed to include six colleges, a department of graduate studies, a summer session, an extension division, a public health laboratory, with branches at Minot and Bismarck, a mining subystation at Hebron, a biological station at Devils Lake, and a state geological survey. Equipment Fifteen buildings have been erected. Four of these are used for instructional purposes, one as a power plant, and two are used by the biological station and the mining sub-station. The expenditures upon these building, together with the campus of 120 acres and the improvements upon it, amount to $620,v 160.90, while the equipment contained in the buildings represents a Value of $260,- 402.78. Averaged over a period of thirty years, the annual expenditure for permanent improvements has been $28,015. The expenditures for instruction and equipment dur- ing the last academic year amounted to $160,025. Besides this sum an equal amount was spent for the maintenance of buildings, cost of heating and lighting, and the support of the public health laboratories and the biological and mining stations. Faculties The University faculties in the different schools and colleges number 98, and are divided as follows: 25 full professors, 15 assistant professors, 38 instructors and assistants, 15 lecturers; and there are in addition 3 teach- ing fellows and 15 student assistants. Of this number 22 have received the doctor's de- gree 03h. D., J. D. or M. DJ from leading instituions of this country and abroad, Others have had extended graduate work in arts, engineering, law and medicine. The distribution of the instructional body, not including lecturers, among the different groups of subjects is as follows: Science 17, Engineering 12, Language 12, Education and Philosophy 8, Medicine 7, Social Sciences 7, Law 5, Mathematics 3, Physical Educa- tion 3, Fine Arts 2, Libraries 7. In addition, the administrative staH numbers thirty-six officers and assistants. Attendance The attendance upon the colleges, schools and sessions conducted by the University during the past year has been in advance of any period in its history. For the first time the attendance upon the colleges, which is the point to be emphasized, has passed the 500 mark and this year reached the total of 554. In the summer session there were 327 registered, in correspondence courses 52, in the Model High School 124, making the total in attendance upon all divisions of the Uni- versity, 1,058. These came from forty-one of the fifty counties of the state and from fourteen states and six foreign countries. The care of The provisions for the care of students and for a comfortable and Students effective university life have kept pace with the other improvements. There are flve residence halls, in which may be housed one hundred and fifty men and nearly two hundred women. These are well taken care of and the attention given to their cleanliness and good condition has much to do with the health and happiness of the student body. The new Commons building, Which has now come into full use, provides an ade- quate and satisfactory place to meet together for meals. The food and service are satis-

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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.

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factory, and in spite of uthe high cost of living the price of board has remained at $3.25 per week. Public Health The Public Health Laboratory of North Dakota was established Laboratories at the State University nearly four years ago. The laboratory makes sanitary analyses of drinking water, ice, and milk, but the last only under special arrangements. The only way to determine the purity and safety of a drinking water is by making bacteriological and chemical analyses, and the state has, therefore, provided for the making of these analyses. The laboratory also makes micro- scopic diagnosis of diptheria, consumption, typhoid fever, rabies, and pathological tissues, free of charge, for any health officer or regularly licensed physician of the state. The work of this laboratory has had a very rapid growth during the last three years. During the first year of its existence there were receiVed and examined 1,828 bacteriological and pathological specimens of various kinds. During the second year the number of examinations increased to 3,293, and for the third year the total number of examinations went up to 4,700. The report of the Director for the past year shows that the laboratory examined 7,038 specimens, of Which 3,683 were taken care of at the University, 2,748 at the Minot laboratory and 607 at the Bismarck laboratory. The large number at the Minot laboratory was due in part to the daily analysis of the public water supply at Minot and also to the larger use to which the laboratory was put by the physicians of that community. The University has recognized that the efficiency of this work depends upon the promptness with which reports from the laboratory are received by the attending phy- sician. The University has, therefore, established branch laboratories close to the people of the state, in order that the people may get the best possible service. The men in charge of the branch laboratories are serving their respective cities in the capacity of dairy and milk inspectors, and make frequent bacteriological analyses of the city,s water sup- ply. The laboratory at the University also serves the city of Grand Forks directly, in that it acts as milk inspector for the health department of Grand Forks and makes bac- teriological analyses of the water supply of that city at least twice a week. These laboratories are entirely under the control of the State University, and the professor of Bacteriology is director of them all. The work is outlined at the University laboratory, and the assistants in the branch laboratories make monthly reports to the head laboratory at the University, although they are placed largely upon their own responsibili- ties in their individual communities. It is believed that no other institution in this country has brought is laboratories so close to the people of the state as has the University. The Summer For many years a Summer School was maintained at the University, Session under the joint management of the University and the State Depart- ment of Education. It was mainly for the convenience of rural and graded teachers of Grand Forks, Pembina and Walsh counties, instruction being given in what is known as the certificate subjects, relatively little work of strictly college work being offered. Two years ago, however, in response to a growing demand, a College Section was organized and courses in several of the regular departments of the University were offered. A larger number than was anticipated availed themselves of the opportun- ity to use the summer season for study, and the experiment was found to be a success. A year later the work was planned on .still broader lines and proved a very material assist- ance to many ambitious students as well as to several teachers of the state who are, of