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

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A dramatic highlight of the campaign was the announcement by the Public Works Administration of a grant of S4l4,000 to the University to provide forty-five per cent of the cost of the first new build- ing, which was completed and ready for June, 1938. The new nivers into full

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Since its doors opened thirty years ago to re- ceive tive professors and twenty-six students, the University of Omaha has grown until in September, 1938, the faculty numbered sixty-five and 1,069 students were enrolled. A Under the presidency of Rowland Haynes, it be- came evident in the fall of 1936 that the equipment of the University, since 1930 a municipal institu- tion supported largely by taxation, was too inade- quate to meet the need of the six hundred students then registered. The Board of Regents therefore selected a site on Dodge street near Elmwood Pork, on which to erect a new plant.

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CAMPUS SCENES . . . Lazy Daze . . , Over the Hill . . . and Through the Wood . . . For Fu- lwe Genemliom