University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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DC 1 %ee S tile tVes lU ' L ' cssary to keep the master of all ti-ades. After the University moved to its pres- ent location fall and midwinter terms be- came fast and sure and have continued to the present. There may come a new policy within the next twelvemonth of dividiui;- the college year into fovir terms. It is thus the University expands and grows. One bit of interest connected with the old bnilding and Di ' nny hall of today ' s campus is the bell that has ever been noted for the ((uality anil power of its tones, which came fi ' om Troy, New York, around tlie Horn. ' Clarence Bag ' ley, a son of the man who built and is often called the Father of the University, was the first to sound Z on it a long peal ont over the Sound aiul town. It was on or about March 19. 1862. late one afternoon, when both whites and Indians as far south as Renton and across the Sound to Port -Madison, a distance of twelve or fourteen miles, were startled with its notes as they were carried along on the Chinook wind. For many years, in times of dense fog, it was rung to let steamers on the bay know the direction to steer. Fires, town a.ssemblies, marriages and numerous other events have lieard its tones peal forth and honor the occasion. Today it rings the hours for classes and assemblies of the student body. It plays a part in the world of athletics and tells of victory and defeat. How long it will be in use no one knows, but many a tale it surely Avould tell if its peals could only s])eak words. Once fairlv launched on its course, the Univer- UNIVeRSITY Twenty-three

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1 4 1 DC i(£utt College of Liberal Arts I T used to be said that the Log Cabin College ' Avas the college that won. The Universit.v of Washington might A •ell be called the Log Rolling College ' tliat won. For many years in territorial days the University was simply kept as a trading proposition in the legislature. If yon will give lis what we want we will give you the University at IMiikilteo — oi- any other place you say. Tiie trade would be made and all would be happy until the next meeting of the legis- lature ; for it never was expected that any- one would take such matters too seriously and begin actually to build the University. But the traders slipped up in their game when the institution was located at Seattle and Rev. Daniel Baglcy was appointed chief commissioner. For he assumed that the location and appointiveness were just what they pretended: and that the young Territory, the majority of whose inhabitants were still aboriginal Indians, was loudly calling for an institution of higher learning. Therefore Mr. Bagley obtained the site, the ten acres between Third and Sixth streets and Seneca and Union, had it cleared off and the building ]iut up, and the University in operation before the next meeting of the legislature. The building of the University at this place was strongly objected to because it was so far out in the woods. The first term of school opened October 20, 1862. in the south room of the lower story with Asa Mercer as president and college faculty. Fifteen presidents have since held the otSce, their length of service being anywhere from six montlis to ten years. But tlie years spent in the first uni- versity building were years of hardships, and tell a story that even today con- tinues. Finances fair and sufficient from the legislature have ever been a minus ([uantity and the University has struggled upward to a scholastic stand- ing recognized throughout the country in spite of its embarrassing fiuancial conditions. ; For several years the LTniversity opened irregularly, and continued in- definite lengths. College then depended upon the one who would take the charge of teaching a mixture of races and ages of people wlut could pay DC DD T irtn 1 1 1 1

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mm (J eei DD now must «iiiile when they look b;tek to the insig- nificant beg-imiiiig. The A B C ' s were taught to tile inl ' aut beginners and passing on uj), tlie eurrieu- um readied, for a feAv of the older students, Ger- man. French. Latin and even Greek and Algebra. Geometry. Trigonometry and other allied studies. The one or two teachers then were recxuired to be of a polyglot edition. ilany of our middle-aged business men and woi-thy citizens of all classes of our state received all id ' their scholastic training in this our beginning I ' lii versify. It is for these people a ' 1io Avere the forerunners, who hel]ii-il in tile struggling days, the men and women pioneers, that this book is jiublishcd. As college was in their day. so they remember; as if is in our day wi ' ant tlieiii to know: and even though we may show that feeling of supei ' ioi ' ify in regard to our present campus, yet we do so Avith pride and not enmif -. X Journalism Hall LAST semester tin- |)ai1y A as held to its course liy the Scotch soldier-editoi ' . Bryant ' Slr- Dougall, who was a little late in assuming his duties because he had answered liis country ' s call, had fought along the border, and then had to spend several weeks accustoming himself to Northern diet: and Walter Tuesley. the ■■Lamji- lighter in Pomander Walk. who is now selling neckties at the Bon ilarche. Scoop is learning the merchandising end of the department store liusi- ness and alleges he lias forsaken the newspaper business. This semester the destinies of the publication are guided by Stacy Jones and Fulton Magill. with their staifs, and cou.servativeuess and an air of dig- DC DD Ttrnilii-four