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T The Greater Oregon By Lamar Tooze, ' i6 EN years hence the students of today, alumni then, will come back to the University of Oregon to revisit the scenes and renew the friendships of their college days. They will find a new University, a greater Oregon. Instead of f the twenty-three or twenty-four hundred students of today they will find five thousand students, possibly more. Old Kincaid field, the scene of many a hard-fought battle, 1 f will support new buildings, each larger than any building now on the campus, with the possible exception of the Woman ' s building. There will be many other large buildings located elsewhere on the campus. The university itself will be rendering to the State that supports it a larger public service in the training of citizenry and the discovery through research of additional and highly valuable methods, systems, processes, ideas. And living through and growing stronger in this development will be found the intangible something that we choose to call the Oregon Spirit — the spirit of friendli- ness, of democracy, of fair play, of progressiveness. This greater university is not a vision ; it is a potential reality, a certainty. It is real because the Oregon spirit dictates that it must come. It is certain because it is necessary. It will come. The history of the State and of the university demonstrates that this great development will take place. Cold mathematics make it sure of achieve- ment. The greatest factor toward swelling the enrollment at the institutions of higher learning in Oregon during the past five years has been the increase in the number of high schools and high school students. Eleven years ago there were 10,710 high school stu- dents in the State ; last year there were 30,000. Twenty years ago there were only three four-year high schools in Oregon outside of Portland. Last year there were 244 such schools in the State. It is estimated that fully 50 per cent of the graduates of the high schools in the State continue their education at institutions of higher learning and that about 90 per cent of those so continuing attend Oregon colleges. Small wonder, then, that the L niversity of Oregon has grown in the last eleven years from 691 full-time resident students to the present enrollment of approximately 2400 students. Due to the future growth in population in the state and to the increas- ing proportion of students in high schools and the increasing proportion of high school f) I graduates who will continue at colleges, the University of Oregon is bound to grow in years to come. The university ' s average annual growth since the school year 1917-18 , , has been 21.1 per cent. Cut that figure to 16 per cent. At that rate ten years from ! y I now will find approximately 5,000 students doing full time resident work at Eugene. Enro llment will soon outstrip income. The university receives all of its income except that obtained from student fees and the interest upon the Villard fund and the fund realized from the sale of university lands, from the two rnillage taxes upon the taxable property- of the state, aggregating eight-tenths of one mill. Property valuations I U Page 1 7
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