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

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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

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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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course, fully engaged during the regular sessions. The Summer Session, therefore, now consists of a College Section and an Elementary Section. In addition to the regular lines of work formerly offered in each, several new features are planned to satisfy a decided need. With North Dakotak proverbially cool summer weather, With the campus at its best, with interesting special features at hand, and many distractions of the regular Uni- versity year conspicuously absent, almost ideal conditions for earnest work are created, and the session of 1913 promises to be the most satisfactory thus far held. The University The fusing, centripetal force in the University is its weekly Convo- Convocalion cation. It is the University conscious of itself as a whole. To look upon Convocation as a mere adjunctea sort of fifth wheeleis cer- tainly a wrongr conception. The University, just as any higher organism, has a collective life, a communal consciousness, and Convocation should be a weekly or daily drawing upon this reservoir of combined strength. But for Convocation, the University would be aware of itself only in spots; by this periodic fusion into totality, the University becomes a selfhood,ea thinking organism, relating its parts to a whole, and thus leading a life of rationalized self-conscious activity. Because of the feeling of its cardinal importance, the hour in which it is to be held has been culled out from the sum total of the hours of the week with a view of maximum attendance by the student body and likewise of the most favorable conditions for blended interests and social contact. Feeling that generosity is here the wisest economy, the University of North Dakota annually sets aside a goodly fund for bringing to the University as Convocation speakers, such men as by reputation and commanding position, within the state and without, ensure by their coming the deliverance of a timely and needed message, whether relating to student life in particular, or to the larger life of the world in general. The mere mention of such names as Prof. Graham Taylor of the Chicago Commons; Dr. William Ellis Griffith of Itaca, New York; Dr. A. E. Winship of Boston; Prof. W. I. Thomas of Chicago University; Dr. Charles E. Bealls, Field Seccretary of the American Peace So- ciety; Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Lincoln Center; Professor Jastrow of Wisconsin Uni- versity,enames chosen almost at random from the list of eminent speakers, who have honored the University by their presence, and spoken inspiringly and instructively at Con- vocation, each one with a special message, bespeaks the range and significance of intellec- tual and moral stimulus afforded by the University through the medium of the weekly Convocation address. A special and perhaps unique feature of Convocation, at the University, is the so- called Between-Us-Dayf, Outwardly it consists of an address by the President, calling attention of faculty and students to the movement and trend of things in the University, to the opportunities for improvement or occasions for change in one respect or another. Considered more subjectively, it is the University collectively introspective. Already this holding of judgment day upon ourselves has been felt as wholesome and tonic, and continued in the same spirit of honest unHinching self-criticism must show its effects in in- stituional betterment and advance.