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m Professor Johnson ' s Territorial title. Professor of Natural History, indicates some- what of the condition in those days. President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, during a visit, asked him what chair he held. When Professor Johnson told him the subjects he taught, President Eliot waved his hand and uttered his famous joke: Oh, I see. you occupy a settee instead of a chair. Tuition fees were twice as high then as those provided in the recent law. Thai was the only source of maintenance. The Territorial Legislatures made small appropria- tions but they were to be applied to pay the tuition of such free students as were appointed by the Governor, the three Judges and the members of the Legislature. I have a distinct recollection of those fees for I delivered milk about town and carried papers to earn the necessary money. I was relieved from the payment for a time when my bills were paid by Dexter Horton. But I did not learn who that good friend was until both he and President Anderson, who kept the secret, were dead. The curriculum in those days was not extensive but I have a firm conviction that much of the work was thoroughly intensive. Study and work was about all the students had to do. One week of our present social activities could not have been matched by the record of a whole college generation of four years then. I saw but one dress-suit in my college days. That was when Dr. Thomas T. Minor came to give us an evening address. I never before had seen a man so arrayed except in picture books. I have long since forgotten the subject of his discourse, but the fine figure of the speaker is one of the clear mental pictures of my boyhood. Our only gymnasium was in the yard. We had a small field for baseball and chose sides rather than having organized teams. We had one big round football and kicked it for distance until W. H. Whittlesey, from Princeton, showed the boys how to line up for a game. I think that was about 1887. We had one big iron dumb-bell and played all kinds of weight games vilh that. Charles L. Denny held the record of jumping with it. We had a pair of boxing gloves, but I don ' t care to tell what happened to me with them. About where the Henry Building now stands we had a trapeze, some rings and a horizontal bar. We thought we were having lots of fun, and some of my old classmates have not ceased to marvel over Washington ' s great change in the matter of athletics. The people of Washington Territor - had agitated the question for more than a dozen years before they attained statehood in 1 889. The changes wrought were rapid and remarkable. All the potential wealth of forest and field and sea were laid hold of vsnth vigor. The University shared the general impulse. The wooden buildings were deemed inadequate, the campus too small, the standards too provincial. In the second session of the State Legislature. 1891, and again in 1893. laws were enacted securing the new campus, erecting new buildings of stone, iron and brick. Tuition was made free and money was appropriated directly for maintenance. Of course the student body increased rapidly. The old settees wtre divided up into more comfortable chairs. A huge gymnasium was provided and an instructor was secured for the athletic work. The institution was moved to the new campus in September, 1895. Very soon thereafter the Faculty began to arrange the curriculum into groups. Schools and colleges emerged and the institution was a university in fact as well as in name. Measured by clocks and calendars, that time is not so very long ago, but I notice that my classmates are all growing gray. I must not acknowledge that we are growing old, for I have so much to do. Anyway, the University is still young and earnestly striving toward the highest ideals.
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declared that the fine humanistic qualities within America can only be perpetuated by protecting the integrity of the state that fosters them. For this country to go down, proclaimed Dr. Suzzallo, in the competitions of commerce or war would be the saddest tragedy that history could record. The development of expert service is the first step in adding efficiency to our modern social life, Dr. Suzzallo asserted ; and the second requires its utilization. The rampant individualism of America was regretted, notwithstanding its good side; and the bringing out of leaders was declared to be as much a necessity in a democracy as anywhere else. Dr. Suzzallo dedicated his life and work to making the University a virile, forceful and dependable agent in the efficient and democratic America that is to be. He bespoke the cooperation of the Faculty, Alumni, regents, students and citizens of the state in upholding the University ideal. To Henry Suzzallo, ' 99, a regular fellow. This was the principal toast Monday night, March 20, offered by Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, who spoke at the College Night ceremonies at the gymnasium, on behalf of the Alumni of Leland Stanford Junior University. While his new friends proclaim him a university president, Stanford graduates give him a laurel wreath bearing this inscription, said Judge Mackintosh. The gymnasium was filled to overflowing with fifteen hundred Alumni of Wash- ington and other institutions, and the members of the senior class. From an institution for the promotion of scholarship alone the American university has been transformed at the hands of the democracy to an institution for the promotion of scholarship conceived in terms of the highest human service, declared Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in an address delivered at the inaugural exercises. The University of Washington, he said, will stand through the ages as the creation of the people of this commonwealth in order that scholarship and the zeal for scholarship may be kept alive and cherished, and in order that generation after generation of Americans may be taught to see life steadily and to see it whole. 4 TRANSITION FROM TERRITORIAL TO STATE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Edmond S. Meany. HERE is but one man whose name is listed with the Faculty now and who was also a member of the Faculty during the last years of the Territorial University of Wash- ington. That man is Orson Bennett Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Zoology. In the last Territorial catalogue he appears simply as O. B. Johnson, LL. B., Natural History. Professor J. M. Taylor, who then held the chair of mathematics, served through the transition to statehood and until 1897. He is now principal of schools at Newcastle, King County. I was a preparatory student in the University in 1878 before either of those veterans had joined the Faculty. Graduating in 1885, there was a gap of nine years before I joined the staff as secretary in April, 1894. During those nine years my closest contact with the institution was through such services as were possible as president of the Alumni Association and as chairman of the University committee in the Slate Legislative sessions of 1891 and 1893. Out of the friendship with the two men named and with others who have gone and out of my own memory, I will try to sketch briefly a record of that important period of transition. fe l
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