University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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PRESIDENT THOMAS FRANKLIN KAXE

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The departments of instruction have been increased, expanded and strengthened, until the name of University is no longer a mockery. The standards were raised and main- tained until cordial recognition was won from the oldest and most conservative institutions of the Eastern States. With a teaching staff of more than a hundred, including graduates from the best insti- tutions of Europe and America, with a student-body of sixteen hundred crowded into halls and temporary sheds, the University of Washington is about to enter upon its third period of marked development. The first period was the time of foundations, the time of Territorial stress and strain from l86l to l889. The second period was the twenty years of expansion from 1889 to l909. The beginning of the third period is marked by the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. For the first time in the history of such enterprises, an effort is being made to retain as much as possible of the money and labor expended for permanent use. Being located on the large campus of the University, all of the improve- ments to the grounds will be retained, resulting in a beautiful park to take the place of a wild stretch of forest. At the same time large portions of forest land will remain in native beauty along the shores of the lakes. At least four of the important Exposition buildings are being made of permanent stone, brick and steel, designed for use by the University after the Exposition is ended. Several of the so-called temporary buildings are also to be saved for University uses. Important works of statuary and collections of historic and economic value will be saved. ln short, it has been estimated that the results of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition will advance the material interests of the University of Washington to a point that would require twenty or more years of ordinary growth to be attained. EDMOND S. MEANY. 14

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What The University Stands For t E recognize that the highest object of the University is to produce good citizens. men of character, patriotism and lofty purpose. Perhaps the University's policy is revealed in regard to character training as satisfactorily as it can be revealed when it is said that we do recognize that this is the first duty and the highest object of the University. Character cannot be made as we make concrete or hardened steel: character cannot be tested and modified as we test for impurities in the laboratories and throw them out. In character building we are dealing with the human will, the human taste, the human choice. It is important for a student to come to do the right thing, but it is still more important that the atmosphere and spirit of the University be such that the student will of his own moral judgment come to see the wisdom of doing the right thing. Our belief, then, is that to secure given conduct in the student in the University is important, but that it is even more important to develop independence of character, personal responsibility and self- accountability. This principle is the great undercurrent of all government at the Univer- sity. This is the principle which determines the attitude of the instructors toward the stu- dents both in and out of the class room. To this end the regents and president of the University endeavor to appoint to the faculty men who primarily are well prepared for the University work, and men who at the same time are manly, whose lives are wholesome and association with whom will be beneficial. We cannot, as a state institution, ask for a given creed or a given faith. Xve extend a liberality which will insure sincerity, a liberality which will secure to each indi- vidual the right to work toward the ideals of the University in the way in which he can be most efficient. ' However different may be the methods of the individual instructors toward moral ends. 'lfi