University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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One Hundred In 1854, Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens asked the terri- torial legislature of Washington to petition Congress for a grant of land to be used as a University, that everv vouth howe er limited his opportiniities, find his place in the . . . Uni ersitv if God has given him the necessarv gifts. Bv 1861, Arthur Dennv, Edward Lan- der and Charles Terrv deeded ten acres for the new University campus in what is now the Seattle metro- politan business district. The cornerstone for the original building was laid in Mav of 1861, nine ears after the earliest settlers had arrived in the territory. In November, the Universitv officialh ' opened, marking the first step in creating the finest educational structure in the Pacific Northwest. Asa Mercer was President of this voung Universitv with thirty students. The following year, the bell was brought around the Horn from New York and installed in the bell tower. It lias become known as the Denny Bell and is still heard each year at Homecoming. Asa Shinn Mercer, First President. The original Territorial University stood where the Olyinpie Hotel is today. The bell and the four eolnnins were later moved to the present eanipus and have heeoiue important University traditions. For several years after the University ' s move to its present location, the building was used bv the Seatllj Public Liljrary. 8

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foreword The Universitv of Washington campus stands as a nionunicnt to the inspired men who founded tlie Territorial Uni- -ersit one hundred ears ago. Tlirough the years of contin- ual growth which ha e passed since its founchng. the I ' nixer- sit ' has emerged as a leading state uni ersitv. In 1861, the white frame sclioolhouse opened to admit 37 pupils, onK- one of whom was a Uni ersit - student. This is a marked contrast to the 18,143 students enrolled in the I ' niversitN ' today. Now all lliat remains of this first building are the four white colimins which were moved with the Uni ersit when it assumed its present location. Tluou h the vears, students iia e inaugurated traditions which ha e become an inte- gral part of Uni ersit life, riie annual pnhlication of the Tyki: could he considered one of these traditions which will continue throu ' h the next nine hundred vears in the life of the Uni ersit ' of a thousaTid ears. .Since a earliook ' s function is that of a memor album, we have designed this sixt - second Tyke in an effort to preserxe portions of the 1960- 61 school year. Beginning ith the school colors, purple and irold, this Tykk, haxinsi been proclaimed the centen- nial edition, has moreo cr tried to capture a little histor and tradition of the ninet - nine preceding vears. If in ten or twent ears ou pick up this honk and recall fond memories of our da s at the University of Washington, then we ha e accomplished our purpose.

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Years at Washington iiiiiiii ' i ' ffiii ii III l.S!)4, Uii li.uiiU l.i d thf cornerstone of Denny Hall, to be used as the Administration Building on the ii«u i.nnpiiN ( l.vm.s iii.;ic;,(l li, elalMirate ceremony and watched the biiriiil of a copper box and its collection of mementos from the old Territorial University biiildini;. The l ' iii i ' isit IkuI sciioiis financial prohlcnis. Four times between 1863 and 1S76, the school was forced to close. Atjjain in 1882, the Uni er- sity was threatened with closinc, hut llenrx ' il- lard. President of the Northern Pacific Railwav, gave four thousand dollars, permitting the Uni- ersit to remain open. ' I he lollow ing ( ' ar when Mr. ' illard visited Seattle, students and laciillx honored him at a celebration. From 1875 to 1880, three important de elop- ments marked the growth of the l ' tii ersit . in 1875, nn ' litary instruction was first organized at the school. Miss Clara McCarth ' was the first official graduate of the Uni ersit in 1876. An- other sign of growth was the first purchase of books for the lilirar in 1880. ' hen asliington became a state in 1889. this one building, its lacult and fort -foin- students became the Universitx of the State of Washing- ton. It liecame ob ions that the growing Uni er- sit ' W ' Ould need more room. Land for a new campus was ac(|uir(cl on tlie shores of Lake Washington and, witli the la ing of the Dennv cornerstone in Ma of 1891. the Universitv offi- ciallv mo ed to its new location. The Columns ' first settinij on the new campus was in the Qiiadranijlc, near Commerce and Raitt Halls. Since then, they have had manv locations, and are now in the Sylvan Theatre on lower campus.