University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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sawg wttft GATEWAY w wwwwtwgWW jggmm S higher liberal, technical and professional education must be made accessible to the masses of young humanity and, indeed, to all educable persons of whatever age, who live within our throbbing centers of population. They must be brought within at least a street car fare of every person craving and ready to use these advantages. Actuated by such considerations as the foregoing and by a sincere civic pride and devotion, a group of representative citizens organized themselves, in the early summer of 1908, into a Board of Trustees and began the active pro- motion of the movement for the founding of a non-sectarian, co-educational institution of higher liberal, professional and technical learning under such auspices as would conduce to the highest type of intelligent and efficient citizen- ship. This Board incorporated as the University of Omaha on October 8, 1908, and inaugurated its educational work on September 14, 1909, with an enroll- ment of 26 students. The success of the enterprise has abundantly vindicated the hopes and aims of its promotors, as the following statistics concerning attendance prove: JACOB ' S HALL 9 2 0

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1 1 LABORATORY OF CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT The University, at the outstart, acquired the tract known as the Redick Reserve, on which stood the old Redick mansion, and has erected on this site two commodious well-appointed buildings, the John Jacobs Memorial Gym- nasium and Joslyn Hall. It has also steadily, year by year, extended the range of its educational work and is now conducting courses in the following De- partments : College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Teacher ' s Training School. Department of Fine Arts. Preparatory Department. School of Law. Pre-Medical Department. Home Economics Department. Extension Department. Night School. School of Oratory. It has provided the advantages of higher liberal and practical education for hundreds of ambitious, intelligent, and worthy young Omaha people who other- wise would have been compelled to go from home to secure these advantages. The central unit in any well conceived university scheme of education is a Collegiate Department with its broad fundamental training in Sciences, Mathe- matics, Literature, History, Economics, Civics, Philosophy, as well as Applied and Fine Arts. Accordingly, the promotors of the University of Omaha have devoted their efforts, in the first place, to the establishment of a general col- j