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THE UNIVERSITY Actuated by the modern educational trend in the direction of establishing in- stitutions of higher liberal, technical, and professional training in the larger centers of population, 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 promotion of a movement for the founding of a non-sectarian, co-educational institution under such auspices as would conduce to the highest type of intelligent and efficient citizenship. This Board was incorporated as the University of Omaha on October 8, 1908, and inaugurated its educational work on September 14, 1909, with an enrollment of twenty-six students. The University, at the outstart, acquired the tra ct known as the Redick Reserve, on which stood the Old Redick Mansion, and erected on this site two well-appointed buildings, the John Jacobs Memorial Gymnasium, given by Mrs. M. O. Maul, and Joslyn Hall, presented by Mr. George A. Joslyn. In these two commodious buildings a Collegiate Department was established with a well-round- ed curriculum. The success of the enterprise vindicated the hopes and aims of its promoters until now more than 1,400 students are enrolled in its regular, extension, and summer sessions. In 1913, four years after its establishment, the University was authorized by the State Department of Education to grant First Grade Certificates. Since that time, the University has continued year by year to add other educational features. The Extension Department consisting of afternoon, night, and Saturday morning classes, was created in 1918 and has become a very important department and factor in the University organization. The Department of Commerce and Business Ad- ministration began its work in September, 1925, and has since kept an expanding and profitable contact with the industrial and commercial interests of the city. The demands upon the University made during the 1920 ' s by eager students and the necessary standards of education involved such a financial burden that those interested in the institution and its continued value in the community conceived that
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THE UNIVERSITY G 1 its perpetuity must be made possible through the organization of a Municipal University, financed from public funds. To this end, the Legislature of Nebraska passed a bill in 1928 authorizing cities of the metropolitan class to vote on the question of the establishment and maintenance of municipal universities, and the people of Omaha on May 6, levied a one-mill tax for the support and development of the Muni- cipal University of Omaha. In compliance with the provisions of the statute a Board of Regents, composed of nine representative citizens of Omaha, was appointed by the Board of Education of the city and inducted into office July 1, 1930. The Board of Regents, however, was enjoined from levying a tax for the support of the newly established institution, and the Municipal University of Omaha did not come into reality until January, 1931, when the State Supreme Court upheld the right of the Board to levy a tax for the maintenance of the Municipal University. The properties of the University of Omaha were then surrendered by its trustees and were accepted by the Board of Re- gents of the new Municipal University of Omaha. Dr. Daniel E. Jenkins was the able leader of the University for the first eighteen years ending in 1926. Then followed Dr. Karl F. Wettstone and Mr. Earnest W. Emery in the presidency. During the year immediately preceding the opening of the new municipal school, the University of Omaha was administered by Dr. W. Gilbert James. Then the late Dr. William E. Sealock was called to the presidency from the University of Nebraska. Since the municipalization of the University of Omaha the late Dr. Sealock with exceeding courage has initiated a new plan of instruction and has done much to ' add to the University ' s prestige in the North Central Association. Twenty-seven new in- structors were added to the faculty, and over 20,000 volumes were added to the library. But Dr. Sealock ' s greatest dream, that of a new spacious campus for the University in a quiet neighborhood, was not realized when death took him in the summer of 1935. And thus the Municipal University of Omaha has become a reality and the dreams and aspirations of its founders and predecessors are being fulfilled as the years pass.
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