University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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Burton Nelson, who had been teaching since the age of fifteen, assumed the duties of President in April 1923. Regular and summer sessions steadily increased with an enrollment of 589 in both, and many organizations and new departments were formed. In the 1930 ' s, after extensive argu- ing for money. President Nelson was able to buy land and construct an athletic field. At the Homecoming game in October 1935 the Burton E. Nelson Athletic Field was dedicated. The end of Nelson ' s era came in the summer of 1945. Many changes took place in the twenty-two years of his term of office. Stout made the transition from a two year to a four year college and changed its objectives and its curriculum to meet the standards of accrediting agencies. Graduate work was also added. 15