University of South Dakota - Coyote Yearbook (Vermillion, SD)

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inent of the institution in financial ways, but will do that most important thing, namely, send their sons and daughters to receive the culture and training which can here be given. Loyalty to the State and loyalty to the 'University should be the sentiment for the future. . Doctor F. B. Gault, of Tacoma, 'Washington was elected to the presidency of the University at the beginning of the present year. Upon the broad founda- tions that have thus been laid for an educational institution which shall be an honor to our connnonwealth, Doctor Gault is planning to carry forward the work of building the greater University of South Dakota. Perhaps the two salient features of his policy for the present are found CID in his plans to interest the people of the State more fully than ever before in their University, to press its claims upon them, and to familiarize the people with the educational opportunities which the University offersg and C25 his 'fSix Hundred Clubn idea, which is the slogan to rally the friends of the institution to a campaign for a largely increased attendance of students. Wfith a splendid body of highly trained men and women constituting the faculty, with connnodious buildings, with an extensive and elab- l rw-,-.--f11,vx r Q 'I I3 D r

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all of the tactics of infantry movement and evolution. The value of military drill can not be denied. It is beneficial both mentally and physically, training to alert- ness and attention and giving an erect and manly carriage. In athletics, the University has already made itself known to the people of the State by the victories which it has won. The new drill hall and gymnasium has given additional facilities for athletic training and an impulse to physical training in all lines. Classes in physical training are organized both among the young men and the young women, the young women being under the instruction of Miss Fee, instructor in Elocution and Physical Culture, and the young men under the direction of Mr. Wfhittermore, Physical Director. In foot-ball, in baseball, and in track athletics the University has achieved many- brilliant victories and is already finding entrance to the field. of competition with-the larger universities of the VVest. Wfith the growth of the University, which is hopedifor in the near fu- ture, the athletic interest will be intensified and the institution will find its proper place as a competitor with th state universities of the Middle Wfest. The debating side of student life should not be omitted in this summary. Last year two intercollegiate debates were held. one with the University of Iowa and one with the Dakota Wesleyan University of our own State. In the debate with Iowa, the University team was victorious. Two intercollegiate debates will be held the present year with the above named institutions. The University of South Dakota, as can be seen by the above analysis, is now a University in fact as well as in name. It remains for the friends of education and all who believe in building a great educational institution for the State of South Dakota to join heartily in any movement which tends to the development and the enlargement of our University. VVhen the people of South Dakota come to realize that this is their institution and that here are educational opportunities to equal any in the VVest, they will not only cheerfully provide for the develop- '-22-

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orate equipment of apparatus, books, and other material mechanism for educa- tional training and scholarly investigation, with a generous appropriation from the legislature for the next two years, why shall not the University advance to- wards its ideal? . I