University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER BY THE CHANCELLOR The Charter of the Colorado Seminary was signed by Governor Evans on the 5th of March, 1864. In 1880 the Colorado Seminary developed into the University of Denver. So our University is distinguished as the pioneer of all educational institutions in Colorado. This is a permanent glory of our school. We have another distinction in that we have given more degrees than either of our sister institutions of the first rank. Colorado College began its work in 1874. The list of degrees given at Colorado Springs down to the commencement of 1901 aggregates 136. The State University began its work in 1877. The list of degrees given at Boulder down to the same date aggregates 448. The list of degrees given by the University of Denver down to the same date amounts to 568. Our relations with our sister institutions of the first rank are in every way most pleasant. Education is co-operative in our thought, and not competitive. We need more education and more religion in Colorado. We do not need more mineral lands, or more ranch lands, or more grazing lands, or more fruit lands. In material wealth ottr state is rich beyond the power of words to describe. But we do need a larger enthusiasm and a deeper unity of purpose among the men and women who stand for the noblest things in education and religion. The University of Denver is manifestly entering upon a career of larger usefulness. The growth of the student body within two years tells its own story. At the commencement of 1900 we reported 630 students in all the schools of the University. At the commencement of 1901 we reported 878 students. At the commencement of 1902 we shall report more than 1.100 students for the year. The exact figure will Ik announced at the graduating exercises on the 11th of June. More than four hundred of these students for this year have been under the instruction of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts. Two hundred of these students have been under the instruction of the Faculties of Medicine, Law and Dentistry. More than five hundred of these students have been under the instruction of the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts. The financial difficulties which have been a serious embarrassment to our work are now beginning to vanish. At our last commencement we had wiped out approximately twenty-five thousand dollars of our debt. So the total debt was reduced from one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Since the 13th of January we have secured conditional pledges which amount to ninety thousand dollars, that is three-fifths of the total debt. When we shall have secured sixty thousand dollars of additional conditional pledges our solicitude will be over forever. Every week brings us some new occasion of confident expectation that we arc nearing the end of these perplexities. University Hall. University Tark. May 5. 1902. 8

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CHAMBERLIN OBSERVATORY ILIFF SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY COLLEGE OF MUSIC 9 HAISH BUILDING: SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE. DENTISTRY AND LAW