University of Rochester - Interpres Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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HE war years, with the problems they brought, were trying ones for the college. The First year was a discouraging one, when the River Campus enrollment dropped sharply because ol the inroads made by heavy enlistments, then came the Navy unit, with its curriculum and administrative problems. Top secret atom bomb and optics research in the following years added to the already complex prob- lems of the University. But the coming of the peace has brought, instead of a return to normal, an upward trend in the size of the University, in the scope of its teaching, in the enrollment, which in some classes was nearly doubled by veterans anxious to continue or begin their education, and in the attitude of the students toward the University, until we find that now the University of Rochester idiyone oi the miostrinfluential in the nation: in research, in educational meth Ai- for learning, and in the type ot graduates it A iiil lliil produces. Q iiis he Univers s made i il il't trides from the time it began under the guiding hand of Rus Rhees to F it now stands, under the able administration of President Alan Valentine. The present university will be to the future one as the one in 1850 and the following decade or two is to the university of today. The things that malce a university what it is, the type of administration it has, the quality of the students themselves, and the things they do in their spare time are the things that the 1948 lnterpres will describe. This is a chapter in the history of a university ever moving forward.. . .

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ill HH. IlHiHHlNi llillili N 1850, when the First group oi men wallced across the quadrangle of the Prince Street campus and up the steps of Anderson Hall, they were beginning their college worlt in an educational world where woman had not yet been given a place. Half a century passed before women were admitted to Prince Street, and it was not until 1902 that women were allowed to teach there. . ll. 1 s A third milestone in college history was passed this year with the appointment of Dr. Kathrine Koller to the post oi chairman of the English department, the First woman in the history oi thefollege oi Arts and Sciences to hold the chair of a major department. wr ' MDL Koller, whose singular graciousness and charm have inspired her students at the University since she came, is lcnown ior her willingness to discuss student problems and for lceen discernment. A stirring personality, Dr. Koller always has been a person to admire and emulate lor her wit, wisdom and charm. To her, the staii oi the 1948 lnterpres dedicates this boolc.