Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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DEAN OF WOMEN GROWTH is an indication of life. Growth is necessary if life continues to be valu¬ able, or even to be. When a person or an institution ceases to grow, deterioration and decay set in and the end is only a matter of time. Enlarged bulk and augmented numbers are often signs of growth, but heightened ideals resulting in increased efficiency offer a still higher test. This institution has grown phe¬ nomenally in numbers, but I see with greater pride our best expansion indicated by the heightened purposes which challenge the best efforts of faculty and students, through growing intellectual appreciation, through enlarged sympathies, through a finer way of life whose ‘‘reach and grasp” shall both, year by year, continue to extend. — 22 —

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Dr. Enoch A. Bryan EXPANSION A COMPLETE file of the Chinook, from the small thin blue book published thirty years ago to the present volume, is the best illustration possible of what the word “ex¬ pansion means in the life of this great uni¬ versity. I use the word “university advisedly, for no one who knows the facts in the case, and who makes a careful use of words, can deny that this institution measures up to the full standard of the name “university in view of its five large colleges and a like number of well equipped schools, its broad curriculum, its standard requirements for admission and graduation, its faculty, its student enrollment, and its facilities for graduate study. There is nothing paradoxical in saying “The State College is a University. It is the thing itself and not its given name that deter¬ mines its genera and species. This college has grown from small things to great, and its genus and not its name determines its classi¬ fication. On the 12th day of January, 1892, this institution opened its doors with sixteen stu¬ dents. Twenty-four years later, it closed the year with an enrollment of 1760. This year, its enrollment will record double that num¬ ber. This is expansion in numbers. Were we to examine in detail other things: financial resources, equipment, curricula, serv¬ ices rendered, or position among its kind in our greater national commonwealth, we would be confronted with the irrefutable evidence of the expansion of the college. Material things are not the only ways in which an educational institution may expand. Such a corporate existence seems to be the em¬ bodiment of a soul. It is our chief concern, in accordance with the law of life itself which seeks expansion and the fullest expression, that we should so live and so direct our aspi¬ rations and activities that the expansion of this institution shall be of that beneficent spir¬ itual type which will be a blessing to our fel¬ lows and to the race. — 21 —

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Dean Carl Morrow DEAN OF MEN T HE guidance of the man behind the desk in scholarship, extra-curricular ac¬ tivities, and social life has been of prime im¬ portance in the advancement of the State College and its men. The students have a person to whom they may look for counsel in all of their problems. The spirit which has prevailed since the Dean assumed his duties here three years ago, yet dominates. The men as a unit have become conscious of their common purpose and re¬ sponsibility and have cooperated to reach their goal. Each year the Dean of Men has assumed new activity and the efficiency of his office has been well maintained. The success of his work, in close cooperation with the Dean of Women, commands the respect of the en¬ tire student association. — 23 —