University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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The Purpose of the University I ' AT A TIME when the University is embarking on a campaign for large gifts to supplement legislative appropriations, it is impor- tant that all should have a clear comprehension of the place and function of a state university. The university is the organized instrumentality of the state for train- ing its individual citizens and for developing the material and spiritual resources of the commonwealth. Through the researches of its labora- , ' tories and the expert services of its scientific staff, it develops the raw material resources of the state into tangible wealth. Another great contribution of a state university lies in its safeguarding the democracy and its culture by building up a high type of civilization. This it does in numerous ways. Through the school of education, for instance, it returns to the state trained teachers to serve and better the public school system. In the school of law students become not only skilled in the law but also conscious of their obligation to serve the wel- ■; fare of the public. Through the schools of medicine and physical edu- i I ! cation a higher health level is being achieved in the state and the tre- ' , ! i I mendous economic loss due to sickness and preventible death is being ' i reduced. In these and in many other ways the University serves as both f j an elevating and a conserving agency for the state. • ! ' 3 In short, the University is, on the one hand, the means of releasing within the individual all his powers and of securing to him the maximum 5 ; I of happiness and contentment which is his right, and, on the other hand, r ! i ; the means of elevating the standards and of increasing the wealth of the whole commonwealth. It is civilization ' s greatest agency for progress and prosperity. i $ ' If ; si i I! m ( — :)oc v l i i Page 25

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[ : V Dean Elizabeth Fox DeCou, B. A. Barnard, 1908. f I : i Deax John Straub, B. A. Mercersburg, 1878, M. A. Mercersburg, 1879, Lit. D. Franklin and Marshall, 1913. Page 26