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needed no endorsement-we were ready to take him at face value and we have found him a man-a man we are proud to call "our pre ident" and one we love for his manly, lovable qualities. President Vincent, the alumni like Vol Xl. Oct. 23, 1911. No.6. you tremendously-they have confi­ Entered at the postotrlce in Minneapolis as second class mail matter. dence in your ability and trust you completely. They are ready to follow Subscription price, $2 per year for all who your leadership. You may call upon have been graduated more than three years. To those who have been graduated less than us for any ervice in our power to ren­ three years. $1. 25 p er year. der. We are with you to a man.

A discount of 25 cents Is allowed for pay­ ment before October 15 of each year. TIIE THREE PRE IDENTS. Loose money sent In payment of subscriptions We wish that every alumnus of the Is at the sender's risk. Address all communications to the Diver ity might have attended, not Minnesota Alumni Weekly The University of lIIinnesota, only the torchlight procession on the Minneapolis. evening precedina the inauguration of E. B. JOH NSON, '88 Editor. President Vincent, but might have been EARLE R. HARE, M. D., '00. Editor of the Special Medical Issues. pre ent at the inaugural exerci es on HARRY WILK, '12, Advertising Manager. Wednesday. There were gathered on the platform the leading men in the educational world of today and seated "0 R PRE IDENT." in the front row were Minne ota's three There were present at the inaugura­ presidents-Folwell Northrop and Vin­ tion of Pre ident Vincent the leaders cent. We are ure that every alumnus in the college world-men whose names would have felt a sense of pardonable are household words-and" Our Presi­ pride in these men. They are men to dent" was the peer of any. Not a be proud of, for Minnesota has been Minnesota man would have been will­ exceedinaly fortunate in its leaders. ing to have had in his place anyone Dr. Folwell who auided the Univer­ of the distinguished men who honored ity in the early day, i what has been th occasion with their pre ence. termed " a constructive educational There is a reason. He is not only a tate man," and the work of organiza­ big man among big men, but, he has tion in which he had the leading part, already won a place in our hearts. He will be felt in the life of the University has not taken the place of Presidents as long as the University exists, and Folwell or Northrop-he has won a has had its influence upon the educa­ place for himself. In the chorus of tional in titutions of the country as good will and welcome which has greet­ well. EVery alumnus will rejoice that ed the coming of President Vincent we Dr. Folwell ha lived to see the institu­ have yet to hear a discordant note. tion develop to it present proportions President Northrop's whole-souled and assume so high a place among the w 'lcome of his successor made us ready leading universities of the country. to meet him more than half way-but The alumni love and honor him not when we came to know the man he only for the wonderful ability as shown 2 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. in the organization of the University, where, was an unqualified success. The but for his lovable qualities as a man. two programs, morning and afternoon, President Northrop's administration of Wednesday, ~re delightful-not a has been one of wonderful growth and discordant note and all the speeches of achievement in every line. Not only the highest order. The banquet of has the institution grown in numbers Wednesday evening was, from begin­ but it has grown in prestige and has ning to end, a delight-such a program developed to a degree almost incredi­ of speeches was never before heard in ble. He has not only received recogni­ this part of the country. The Presi­ tion at home but has been recognized dent's reception, on ·Thursday evening, among the leading educatoTI? of the was a fitting ending of a brilliant series country as a man who has made a most of events. Even the most inveterate enviable reputation as an administra­ knocker for once has nothing to knock. tor. We do not need to remind the The weather, too, was all that could be alumni how dear he is to everyone who asked during an unusual rainy season. has ever had anything to do with him. Monday was one of the most disagree­ His place in the hearts of the alumni, able days for months past, Tuesday it students, faculty and the people of the cleared up and wa a typical Minnesota state is secure for all time. October day, in the evening it clouded President Vincent completes the trio. up but did not threaten rain, though a While he has been at the University small shower did come shortly after but a few months, in those few months the crowd had left the field. While he has won a place in the hearts of Wednesday was far from ideal, it was everyone who has come in contact with much better than many of the days him. He begins his administration un­ preceding. Altogether, things con­ der auspices that could not be more spired to make the whole event one favorable. E'verybody is with him\; unbroken and unmistakable success. everybody believes in him; his admin­ istration promises to carry on the work of the University so that it shall, in WHAT IT l\1EANS. ever increasing degree, serve the state Last Tuesday evening's demonstra­ and the nation. tion was made possible by thousands of factors that have entered into the building up of a proper spirit at the INAUGURAL WE:EK. University of Minnesota. These forces The events of Inaugural week have have been working since the day when passed into University history and Governor Ramsey :first suggested that those who were privileged to take part the Territory of Minnesota should make in any of the events of the week will provision for an institution of higher long look back to the event as one of education. Every unselfish act in the the great occasions of their lives. From interests of the institution, from that the Inaugural Procession through the day to the present hour, has helped to formal Inaugural Exercises and in­ make sllch an expression possible. The cluding the President's reception, ev­ men who worked in the early days of erything passed off without a hitch and small encouragement and who bore al­ with no breaks on the part of anyone. most unsupportable burdens that the The procession, which is described else- institution might be saved for the peo- MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 3

pIe of the state-all wrought better modic exhibition of what is sometimes than they knew and to each we owe a mistaken for college spirit-the expres­ debt of gratitude. Merrill, Stevens, sion was so spontaneous, so genuine, so Braden, Sibley, Pillsbury, Folwell, Nor­ unmistakably representing a deep-seat­ throp, and a host of others, nameless ed sentiment of love and loyalty, that here for lack of space, not for lack of no one could doubt that it demonstrat­ appreciation-all have helped to make ed the existence of a spirit that has that spirit, of which, the demonstration come to stay. was but an outward evidence of an in­ It means much that this is so. Just ward healthful consciousness of a past as the existence of this consciousness is to be proud of, a present in which to an evidence of unselfish activity on the rejoice and a future to look forward to part of thousand who have labored with visions of great things to come. without hope of reward, just so surely Just as the smooth working of all the is it a.n evidence that some one has dis­ factors which entered into the making covered its exi tence and had the cour­ of that demonstration a success, was age of his convictions to put in motion evidence of careful planning and work, the forces which proved his faith well that, at the time seemed trivial, just so founded-that man is Professor Henry nrely the demonstration of loyalty and F. Nachtrieb, president of the General devotion was an evidence of the unself­ Alumni Association. His faith in the ish service of the men and women of existence of such a pirit has been glo­ the past of the institution. Such spirit riou ly demonstrated. Others helped is not born in a moment of wild enthu­ to make the affair a success and to each sia m-it is a matter of slow growth­ a meed of credit is due-but the initia­ though the recognition of its existence tive was his-when others said, ' It may be a matter of sudden. compre­ can't be done," he aid, "We'll go hension. ahead and do it," and led the way. The University of Minnesota has Among the many who have helped to found herself-she has a new-born make Minnesota spirit what it is to­ sense of an existence of which hereto­ day-an entity of which we are all fore she has been scarcely conscious. proud, and who e exi tence reflects For years there has been a growing credit upon all connected with the Uni­ consciousness of the presence of a Uni­ versity-he deserves high rank. None versity spirit-the work of the General have worked with a higher ideal or a Alumni Association has demonstrated more single devotion to all that is best it a number of times in most striking in Univer ity life. We are glad of this manner and the May Fete, last spring, opportunity to say what has been ill demonstrated that the students had our hearts many years to say. come to feel that pervading something that is called college spirit and to be PRlCE OF THIS ISSUE. actuated by it. But last Tuesday even­ Many subscribers have asked the ing was the first time in the history of price for extra copies of this issue of the University when alumni and stu­ the Weekly. We can furnish subscrib­ dents have been moved by a common ers with e..'Ctra copies at 2Sc each, or bound in boards at SOc each. To impUlse to express their enthusiastic those who are not sub cribers the price loyalty to the University. The occa­ is SOc each and 7Sc each if bound in sion was not one to call forth a spaiS- I o~rds. 4 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

NO WEEKLY FOR OCTOBER 30. consisted of Professor N achtrieb Ma- Owing to the delay in issuing this jor Butts and Dr. Cooke. ' Special Inaugural number there wiIl be no weekly issued October 30th, the WILL ENTERTAIN PRESIDENT next regular date of issue. There will be the usual thirty-six numbers dur­ VINCENT. ing the college year. The Minnesota Alumni living in New York City and vicinity will en­ tertain President Vincent at a dinner SPEAKS FOR THE ALUMNI. on the evening of November 16th. Ar­ The Reverend John Walker Powell, rangements are being made for this '93, who was chosen to speak for the dinner by a committee of which Mr. alumni at the inaugural exercises, rep­ Roy V. Wright, Eng. '98, is the chair­ resented the alumni in most creditable man. Mr. Wright's business address manner. In behalf of the alumni he is care Railway Age Gazette, 83 Ful­ greeted President Vincent and prom­ ton St., New York. His house address ised him the loyal support of the is 192 N. Walnut St., East Orange, alumni in carrying out the policies of N. J. Anyone who knows of any his administration. Mr. Powell enjoys alumnus or former student living in the reputation of being an unusually the vicinity of New York who might able speaker and he more than lived otherwise be missed is urged to send up to his reputation last Wednesday. the names and addresses of such per­ sons to Mr. Wright.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. GREETINGS FROM THE ORE­ The general committee, having in GON ALUMNI. charge the arrangements for the torch­ light procession, are very grateful for The following telegram was de­ the help afforded them in making the livered to President Vincent at the In­ plans for the procession a success. augural banquet held at the Depart­ They wish to make particular acknowl­ ment of Agriculture, October 18th. edgements to the class presidents cf "All hail to our new chief. Weare the various colleges and to the follow­ with you for grand, successful future." ing individuals who were specially ac­ "OREGON ALUMNI OF MINNE­ tive and helpful: . Miss Butner, Doro­ SOTA. thy Loyhed, Martha Keller, Jean Muir, "A. M. Webster, President, Harold Hansen and Blaine Bates. "H. R. Dewart, Secretary." There are so many others who did their share to make the affair a success that it is impossible to name them all, but GIVES CREDIT TO HIS MOTHER. their help is appreciated and their un­ Dr. Gustav A. Andreen, president of selfish devotion to the best interests Augustana college of Rock Island, II!., of the institution helped to make the congratulated Bishop Vincent, on the procession the grand success which it day of the inauguration of his son as was. president of the University, remark­ The general committee in charge ing that "As the father is so is the MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 5 son." Bishop Vincent responded say­ "Those who were fortunate enough ing, to witness the remarkable demonstra­ " Don't congratulate me. Of course tion on Northrop field last night must I am proud of George, but if my son have been impressed with the idea has any eminent qualities he awes that the spirit of loyalty and devotion them to his mother, for she made him to alma mater has come to be a sig­ what he is. She, unknown to fame, nificant factor in the affairs of the Uni­ was truly a wonderful woman. Even versity of Minnesota. It is only part before my son could read, from his of the story to say that it was a bril­ earliest childhood, she would tell him liant demonstration, splendidly con­ stories and read to him by the hour. ceived and splendidly executed. The She read Thackeray, Dickens, Scott illumination of torches, lanterns, and many other authors for the boy's searchlights and fireworks, the march­ benefit and it was this early training ing and countermarching of thousands at the knee of his mother that gave of alumni and students, led by the uni­ him his keen interest for things of a literary nature. You must congratu­ versity band and singing their college late Mrs. Vincent rather than myself." songs and with it all the general mani­ festation of enthusiasm and delight, re­ ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO THE vealed a spirit which more than any­ PIONEER PRESS AND thing that will be said at the exercises DISPATCH. of the inauguration is to insure the fu­ ture of the university. Through the courtesy of the Pioneer Press we are able to offer our readers Leading the procession and in the four views of Inaugural Week, which place of honor came the old students appear. in this issue of the Weekly. with their standards telling the story The PIOneer Press has also furnished of the early days of small things and the Weekly a full set of clippings of the period of early struggle. Those news items published during the past few weeks relating to the Vincent In­ who are at all familiar with the his­ auguration, forming a very complete tory of the university must have been and accurate history of the preparation reminded of the times of stress and for the event and of the event itself. trial through which it has passed as T.he Pioneer Press and Dispatch have an institution, gathering strength with gIven a great deal of space to Univer­ sity news in recent years. They are each decade, and growing gradually represented at the University by Mr. into the great institution which it is Keefe who is unusually conscientious today. When an occasion of this kind and accurate in his reports as well as brings together from all over the successful in getting the news that is news while it is news. Northwest the men who have been trained here for usefulness and effi­ ciency, revives in them for the time the GRASPS ITS REAL SIGNIFI­ spirit of old-time comradeship, of zeal CANCE. and of loyalty to the university, and The following editorial, clipped makes them a part of the jubilant, from the St. Paul Dispatch, shows a cheering multitude, it is assurance remarkable grasp of the real signi­ ficance of Tuesday's torchlight proces­ that there is back of the institution a sion. constituency and an influence which "A Significant Demonstration. will be powerful in the guarding and MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. the guiding of its interests and des­ beer-sipping, wine-bib bing college or tiny. university professor. He is hateful We can not voice President Vin­ because he is incongruous. More than cent's feelings on that occasion, or ex­ that, he is hateful because of the havoc press the sentiments and the memories he works as an iconoclast in the beau­ which must have been awakened in tiful temple of youthful ideals. It is the minds and hearts of his predeces­ a safe prediction in the near coming sors as they sat with him, witnesses of day when the American saloon is only this splendid spectacle. Certainly they a historic tradition, that the college had a right to indulge a feeling of professor who drinks in public or in pride and satisfaction in the past and private will not be tolerated beyond inspiration for the future. The Uni­ the meeting of the board of trustees versity of Minnesota today, after that next succeeding his discovery, and I demonstration, and more than ever be­ should say to you in perfect candor at fore, in the minds of some people at this time, in order that there may be least, must be regarded as an institu­ no misunderstanding from the begin­ tion to be cherished, promoted and ex­ ning, that I will not serve on a teach­ alted for what it has done, for what it ing body with any man who uses in­ is and for what it is to be. toxicating liquors in any form what­ This was no mere students' frolic. soever. My responsibility to young There were in that demonstration men manhood and womanhood for charac­ on whose shoulders rest some of the ter ideals is too great to permit me to weightiest cares of public and private attempt to bear the burden of respon­ activities in this state. It was worth sibility which I could not escape for while to bring them together in that a colleague who leads an immoral manner, to give them the opportunity life."-·From Science, Oct. 13, 1911. to participate with the students of the Order of exercises for the inaugura­ present day in a tribute to their alma tion of George Edgar Vincent, Ph. D., mater. The occasion was worthy of LL. D., as president of the University it, and the demonstration was worthy of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. of the occasion. Its significance will Pa ul, October 17th to 20th, 1911. be impressed more and more upon, not only the participants, but the public at WILL SETTLE THE BREN large, as the incident is recalled in SHORTAGE. after years and loyalty and devotion President John Lind, of the Board to the institution are put to the test. of Regents, has announced that the "It was a great night for the Uni­ bonding company has agreed to settle versity of Minnesota." the Eren shortage. The exact amount which this company is to pay has not FEARLESS AND SENSIBLE. been determined but it will cover the amount which the public examiner Extracts from an address to the sen­ finds Mr. Bren's books to be short. ate of the Vniversity of Vermont and Tl:te regents held that the bonding State Agricultural College by Guy. company was liable whether Bren was Potter Benton, installed as president robbed as he asserts, or whether he embezzled the money as is charged in on October 6, 1911. indictments pending against him. The "No more hateful spectacle con­ shortage according to the public ex­ fronts advancing civilization than a aminer is approximately :ji14,400. MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 7 lowed by luncheon at the Town and Country Club, given to Delegates INAUGURATION WEEK and Official Guests by citizens of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Full Report of the Pro­ 8:00 to 11:00 p. m.-President's Re­ ception at the Armory to Dele­ ceedings gates, Guests, Alumni, Members of the Faculties, and their Fami­ Connected with the Inauguration of lies. Friday, October 20th. George Edgar Vincent as Presi­ 8 :15 p. m.- Concert of the Minneapo­ dent of the University of lis Symphony Orchestra at the Minnesota, Oct. Auditorium. Delegates and Offi­ 17.19, 1911 cial Guests invited by the courtesy of the Guarantors of the Orches­ GENERAL PROGRAM. tral Association of Minneapolis. T uesday, October 17th. 8:00 p. m.-Torch1ight Procession of A GLORIOU SUCCESS. Alumni and Students. The torchlight procession of alumni Wednesday, October 18th. and students, held on the evening pre­ 9 :40 a. m.-Academic Procession to ceding the inauguration of Pre ident the Armory. Vincent, has passed into history as a 10 :00 a. ro.-Morning Session at the complete and unqualified succe s. Dur­ Armory. Recessional to the Li­ ing the days preceding the event there brary Building. were many who were ready to proph­ 12 :30 p. m.-Luncheon at Sanford esy a frost but there is not one person Hall given by the Board of Re­ who witnessed the event who is not gents to Delegates and Official enthusia tic in prai ing the wonderful Guests. way in which the well-laid plans were Luncheon at Alice Shevlin Hall carried out. A great many people who given by the Board of Regents to have seen imilar events in the ea t Invited Guests. unite in saying that Minnesota's torch­ 2 :10 p. m.-Academic Proce sion to light proce ion, in honor of President the Armory. Vincent, excelled anything ever before 2 :30 p. m.-Inaugura1 Exercises at attempted. Pre ident Vincent said, the the Armory. Recessional to the morning following the procession, that Library Building. he had seen uch events in various parts 7:00 p. m.-Dinner at the University of the country but that he had never Farm Dining Hall given to Dele­ seen anything that approached the gates and Guests by the President linne ota torchlight proce ion, and and Faculties of the University. expre sed his hearty appreciation of 8:00 p. m.-Addresses in the Chapel the way in which the alumni and stu­ of the Main Building. dents united in making the affru.r such Thursday, October 19th. a great success. Those who have been 10 :00 a. m.- utomobi1e visit to the bewailing the lack of Minnesota spirit University Farm and the parks of were answered once and for all in this Saint P aul and Minneapolis, fo1- demonstration. The whole event was a 8 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. demonstration of the fact that Minne­ and presented a wonderfully fine and sota alumni and students are not lack­ inspiring sight. ing in a proper sort of college spirit. The alumni procession was headed by The finances will be cared for by J. E. Miner of the class of 1875 who the payment of assessments made on was the only representative of his class. classes, which have been agreed to by '76 followed with Professor John S. the classes, and on which payment has Clark and Dr. W. E. Leonard in line. been guaranteed. In most cases the '77 was represented by Professor Wil­ payments have been turned in to the kin, W. C. Bryant, W. S. Pardee and Association. A full statement of the, Judge Stephen Mahoney. Every class finances will be published in the Week- from that time down was represented 1y as soon as it is possible to close up by a delegation. Some classes were the various accounts. particularly well represented. The procession was advertised to be­ 1891 had one of the most effective gin at eight 0 'clock and those who were banners in the parade. The banner to take part were to appear not later bore a fine portrait of President Vin­ than 7 :30 to secure a cap, gown and cent and the inscription: "He Came;" torch. The alumni began coming a few "We Saw;" "He Conquered." minutes after six o'clock and by 7 :30 The Wisconsin alumni, to the num­ 'over eight hundred caps and gowns ber of about fifty, accepted the invita­ and torches had been given out and the tion of the Minnesota alumni to par­ line of march was formed. The proces­ ticipate in the torchlight procession. sion itself started before eight. The They carried a banner with the in­ alumni, in order of graduation, headed scription-The Wisconsin Alumni the procession, marching first along the Greet President Vincent. Fifty Yale avenue in front of the Library building graduates marched, headed by their and Pillsbury hall to Northrop field, own band. Those in line were dressed then to the left to University avenue, in blue and carried a transparency then up University avenue to Fifteenth, reading-Vincent, Yale, Minnesota. on Fifteenth avenue across the campus When the Yale group passed President to the Mechanic Arts building, then Vincent's seat they halted and gave turned on itself and came back to Uni­ the Yale yell and followed it with versity avenue, passing up University cheers for President Vincent, repeat­ avenue and in the main gateway and ing his name ten times. along the drive in front of the build­ The student body was represented by ings and back to Northrop field. When a number of floats. The mechanical the head of the procession had reached engineers had one which showed sev­ Northrop field there were at least two eral young men working at the forge. The civil engineers carried a sign" Dig thousand who had not yet started to brother, dig." The electrical engineers march. There were almost one thous­ had a big float beautifully decorated and alumni in the procession and nearly with electric lights with a sign reading, four thousand students. The men and " We shine for Vincent." The home women were equipped alike with cap economics girls presented a cozy little and gown, the men carried torches and house and the law school had a police the women Japanese lanterns. The court in session. campus was a sea of moving torches Heading the student contingent in John S. Pillsbury (Father of the University) Mrs. John S. Pillsbury MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 9 the line of march was the academic col­ the other torches were lighted and as lege, the "Mother of Them All," ac­ in a flash the whole campus was in a cording of the banner of the senior blaze of light. The lighting of the Jap­ class, which prepared a unique float anese lanterns took a little longer but for the occa ion. The float showed the when they were lighted they made an wise owl as impersonated by a befeath­ unusually fine and impressive showing. ered student, and then there was Atlas, The whole campus was a moving sea of who was offering the world that rested light. For an affair employing so many on his shoulders to the senior coed, people the procession was managed Miss Dorothy Loyhed. The float was with remarkable success. The students drawn by senior men and was accompa­ and alumni who took part followed di­ nied by a bodyguard carrying torches. rections literally and the whole effect The forestry students carried a trans­ was strikingly beautiful. parency showing an enlarged sl!ap­ As the procession moved about the shot of President Vincent with his arm campus, and one viewed it from a posi­ around the neck of a fawn. The pic­ tion where he could see it in its en­ ture was taken last summer when Pres­ tirety, the scene was one not to be for­ ident Vincent vi ited the Itasca school. gotten. It was impressive as well as It was a noticeable fact that the older beautiful. The good feeling manifested clas es were proportionately better rep­ from one end of the line to the other re ented than the later classes which was noticeable. If there were any dis­ outnumbered them many times. There affected among the alumni they were were represented in this procession the certainly not in the procession that alumni who really count, not only in night and if they were in the grand- alumni affair but in business affairs in tand they were not making them­ the city and the state. The enthusiasm selves prominent. shown by all who took part in the pro· Various classes were provided with cession was remarkable and the good transparencies which told of their spirit that pervaded the rank and file achievements of pa t years, or promised of five thousand alumni and students support for the University in the fu­ who turned out to make the affair a ture. The men and women who marched success, was really wonderfully inspir­ in line were there because of their love ing. The impression upon the visitors for Alma Mater and they gloried in from the colleges all over the country the opportunity to show their love and must have been most favorable. loyalty. Among the earlier classes particu­ Upon entering Northrop field the larly well represented were the classes procession followed the cinder path of '77, '83, '88, '89, '91, '92. Some of along in front of the grandstand then the later classes were represented by passed over to the opposite side, doub­ large and enthusiastic delegations. ling on itself and coming back to the After the torches, caps and gowns had ea t end of the grandstand where the been given out the various classes gath. alumni proceeded to take their eats in ered around a common standard which sections reserved for them and viewed had been provided and waited for the the student part of the proce ion a it signal to light their torches. In each entered the field and went through evo­ group there was one lighted torch and lutions under the direction of Miss But­ when the signal was given immediately ner and Major Butts. 10 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

The cadets formed in a hollow square 8. Flight of 6-pound parachute sllrrounding practically the whole foot­ rockets. ball field. The torclies, which had been 9. Salvo of 15-inch shells. caITied over their shoulders, were placed on the ground and formed a con­ 10. Ascent of 4-pound colored ex- tinuous frame of fire. The young wo­ hibition rockets. men bearing their Japanese lanterns 11. Gigantic floral batteries. marched to the center of this frame and 12. Aerial field of clover. form ed geometrical figures in their 13. Pain's celebrated 6-pound aster­ marching. They presented a wonder­ oid rockets. fully beautiful sight. After going 14. Bayonet TourbiUions. throuO'h their evolutions the young wo­ men took their seats in the grandstand 15. 6-pound rockets with peacock and the cadets formed by companies plumes. immediately in front of the grandstand 16. 6-pound weeping willow rockets. and on a signal from the commanding ] 7. 6- pound electric and s tar officer proceeded to form the letters rockets. U M. At a second signal the whole 18. Chromothrope or blazing sun. company of cadets kneeled down, bringing the letters out in bold relief 19. Display of 15-inch shells. against the black background. Again 20. 6-pound" Old Glory" rockets. the cadets assembled by companies and 21. Pain's 1910 novelty shells. at a given signal formed themselves a 22. Columbian batteries of jewelled second time in letters forming the word mines. VI JCElNT. When the letters U M had been formed the whole audience arose, 23. Flight of fiery waggler rockets. and, led by the band, sang "Minne­ 24. The weird white falls, 150 feet sota. " After the cadets had been re­ long and 20 feet high-Niagara by called to their positions, they marched moonlight. to the side of the field next the grand­ 25. Aerial novelty-emeralds and stand, and, when taps were sounded, at diamonds. a given signal all lights were put out, 26. Cascade of fire or bayonet Tour­ leaving the whole field suddenly dark. billions. Immediately after the fireworks began 27. Salvo of variegated shells. to go off and the following program 28. Five break" German Enchore" was given. shells. 1. Salute of 15-inch guns. 29. Flight of 6-pound prismatic tor- 2. TIlumination of college gates. rent rockets. 3. Display of three-pound rockets 30. The athletic students-a scream. and Washington rockets. 31. Gigantic whirlwinds. 4. The fan of the Mikado. 32. Display of hanging c h a i n f). Clouds of fireflies and lightning rockets. bugs. 33. The grove of jewelled palms. 6. Display of 13-inch shells. 34. Mother of Thousands-simultan­ 7. Eight little devils among eight eous flight of 18-inch shells. little tailors. 35. 6-pound Painite rockets. MINNESOT A ALUMNI WEEKLY. 11

36. et piece 40 by 60 feet. the various classes who had charge of MIN ESOTA getting their classmates out to the pro­ 1 51 1911 ce ion, that some of the alumni who· Portraits of were farthest from the University President Folwell President orthrop showed fully as much, if not more, en­ President Vincent thusiasm over the affair than tho e who A magnificent piece of fireworks. were nearer at hand. The letters that 37. The General Alumni Association have been received at this office con­ Bouquet-flight of 150 large colored cerning the matter have demonstrated rockets. beyond a doubt that the alumni all 38. Good night. over the world were intensely inter­ ested in the affair and would have been With the" Goodnight" the audience delighted to have been able to take a broke up and pas ed out of the field, personal part in the procession. Many everyone impressed with the wonderful of these alumni who could not be pres­ display which had exceeded the most ent personally, were glad to contribute sanguine expectations of the most en­ their money to make a succe s of the thu iastic supporter of the Maroon and event. Gold. It was without qualification a The affair, so far as the alumni part marvelous accomplishment and it of it was concerned, was worked up howed not only the most careful plan­ through a committee consisting of rep­ ning and willing carrying out of the resentatives from all of the various plans, but, it showed a spirit that could clas es from the beginning down to the not be the result of plans, a true ni­ cIa of 1911. It was really remarkable versity loyalty that could not be sur­ with what enthusiasm these men ac­ passed by any college in the country cepted the task laid upon them and today. It was Minnesota spirit and it with what unselfishne s they worked to was fine spirit. Every alumnus and make the whole affair a succe s. 0 student who took part in this proces­ Ie significant than the proce ion it- sion will rejoice to his dying day that elf was the way in which these chair­ he had a part in it. Those who were men sacrificed time and money and privileged to see the procession will worked unselfishly to make this affair a never forget it. complete ucce . While some of the As the St. Paul Dispatch said in an chairmen were particularly active very editorial the next afternoon, "The ai-' few failed entirely to a surne the task fair revealed the spirit which more laid upon them. than anything that will be said at the exercises of inauguration is to insure Order of the Academic Processions. the future of the University." The MAJOR EDMU D L. BUTT , proces ion which has passed into his­ Chief Marshal. tory was the most significant feature of LOUIS J. COOKE, the week's events. The only regret Assi tant Chief Mar hal. connected with the whole affair i that First Division: Members of the U ni­ the thousands of alumni scattered all versity Faculties. over this country, who would have been E. A. COOK, 1Iarshal. glad to take part in this proce sion, Fir t ection: Instructor. could not be present. B. F. P. Brenton and Edwin L. It was remarked by the chairman of Newcomb, Marshals. 12 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

Second Section: Assistant Professors. "The Idea of Vocation:" President Otto S. Zellner, Marshal. John Huston Finley, A. M., LL. Third Section: Associate Professors D,. of the College of the City of and Professors. New York. F. H. Scott and R. E. Scammon, "The Idea of Research:" President Marshals. Harry Pratt Judson, A. M., LL. Fourth Section: Deans of the Col­ D., of the University of Chicago. leges and Schools in the reverse "The Idea of Service:" President order of their founding. Charles Richard Van Hise, Ph. D., Rodney West, Marshal. LL. D., of the University of Wis­ Second Division: Guests, Delegates, consin. Regents and the President. Benediction: The Reverend Harry E. E. NICHOLSON, Marshal. Pinneo Dewey, D. D., of the Plym­ First Section: Donors and Specia· outh Congregational Church, Min­ Guests. neapolis. John Abner Handy, Marshal. Second Section: Delegates of Learn­ SYMPOSIUM ON THE LEADING ed Societies in the reverse order of IDEAS OF HIGHER EDU. their founding. CATION. Charles E. Skinner, Marshal. Third Section: Delegates of Colleges CULTURE AS A UNIVERSITY and Universities in the reverse or­ IDEAL. der of their founding. By A. Ross Hill, President of the William H. Hunter, Marshal. University of Missouri. Fourth Section: The Board of Re­ As in the case of many another con­ gents and former Members of the ception, we are indebted to the Greeks Board of Regents. for the ideal of a liberal education. Hugh E. Willis, Marshal. They first conceived of education as a Fifth Section: Speakers. means to the development of a free E. P. McCarty, Marshal. personality, a love of knowledge for Sixth Section: President Emeritus its own sake, and an appreciation of Cyrus Northrop and President the things in this life worth living for. George Edgar Vincent. They defined, perhaps for all time, the most worthy objects of a man's life­ Or-der of Exercises on Wednesday intellectual and aesthetic enjoyment, Morning. political and moral freedom, social and President George Edgar Vincent, Ph. personal excellence - called culture. D., LL. D., Presiding. The fruits of such social and educa­ Invocation: The Reverend Laurence tional aims may be seen in the prod­ Albert Johnston, President of the llcts of Greek civilization in the Age Al1gl1stana Lutheran Synod, Saint of Pericles. Such statesmen as The­ Paul. mistocles and Pericles controlled her Symposium: "The Leading Ideas of destinies; Herodotus and Thucydides Higher Education." were her historians; the tragic drama "The Idea of Culture:" President was represented by Aeschylus, Soph­ Albert Ross Hill, Ph. D., LL. D., ocles and Euripides, and comedy by of the University of Missouri. Aristophanes; and in art the work of MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 13

Phidias and Myron and the construc­ tion which found no worthy alms or tion of the Parthenon give evidence of interests in this life except as they the taste and the achievements of the were connected with the life to come, Greek mind. No wonder that, through and which looked upon school train­ education, at a later time, "captive ing as a mere discipline in a few re­ Greece took captive her rude con­ stricted activities of the mind or prep­ querer." aration for the professions of law, med­ But the university as an institution icine, and theology, yielded gradually is a product of the Middle Ages, and to the conception of a lib eral educa­ liberal culture was naturally not its tion, aimed at the development of the original aim. The University of Saler­ free man, with individuality of his no was a school for the training of own and power of participation in physicians; that of Bologna was call­ everyday life, based upon a knowl­ ed into existence to furnish profession­ edge of life in the past and an appre­ al training for jurists; while the Uni­ ciation of opportunities of life in the versity of Paris, the common mother present. This revived conception of of all northern universities, was orig­ education opened up especially three inally a school of theology and schol­ new worlds to the student: fir t the astic pholosophy. But at a very early real life of the past, the life of the period there was differentiated within ancient Greeks and Romans with their the University of Paris an organiza­ more varied interests and their wider tion composed of the masters of arts, knowledge of life and of its possibili­ and eventually the faculty of arts be­ ties ; second, the inner life of the indi­ came predominant; and in the school vidual with its intellectual or contem­ of liberal arts candidates for the pro­ plative pleasures and satisfactions, its fessional schools received their pre­ appreciation of the beautiful, its hu­ liminary education. But the "sev~n man interest in the activities of the liberal arts" (grammar, rhetoric, and time; and, third, the realm of nature dialectic-the trivium; arithmetic, ge­ around him a realm that to the me­ ometry, music, and astronomy-the diaeval mind had been considered de­ quadrivium) furnished a restricted basin~ in its influence on man. An field for the education of youth; and insight into man, humanity and na­ besides, the work was directed more ture became the leading aim of some toward the mastery of form than to universities and was represented in the acquisition of knowledge Gr the all the universities of Europe, and pursuit of truth in any large sense. many students were drawn from the Throu,g-hout the Middle Ages the aim dominant interest of law and dialectic. of university instruction was either Here j a clear recognition of culture professional or disciplinary. as a university ideal and we may not To the Renaissance we owe the re­ today overlook the essential sound­ vival of the idea of a liberal educa­ ness of the conception as it furni hed tion as formulated by the Greeks and motive for study and instruction in partially at least adapted to the Ro­ European univer ities four centuries m~ns by Ci ero. Ouintilian. Tacitus ago. and others. In fact on the education- The chief educational instrument for al side this revival is just what the the realization of this aim was found Renaissance was. The view of educa- in the classical literature of Greece 14 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. and Rome. In this recovered literature wealth." Especially it was felt by the three phases of culture above men­ the colonists to be e sential that a tioned found their basis and through body of educated ministers should be it they first worked themselves out. trained up for the public offices of re­ The mistake should not 'be made, how­ ligion. Contrary to the common opin­ ever, of confusing this means of edu­ ion, the early established colleges of cation with either the cause or the this country did not aim at culture in purpose of the prevailing educational the Greek or early Renais ance sense, point of view. Its causes lay deeper but they were semi-profes ional in and more remote in the whole move­ character and were meant primarily ment of history and of thought, and as institutions for the training of an its aim was culture, that advancement educated minister. But as they used in knowledge and breadth of view and the same instruments of education, of experience which develop "those their apologists came to assert as their highest gifts of body and mind, which claim to distinction that their chief ennoble men and which are rightly purpose and their distinguishing trait judged to rank next in dignity to vir­ were to be found in the production of tue only." The interest was in "the the cultivated man. pursuits, the activities proper to man­ The American Revolution brought kind" ("Humanitas"), and Greek and with it a growing sense of the value of Latin literature was merely a means educa ion for its own sake or for its to an insight into these. effect in the "heightening of sheer hu­ Soon, however, that which was at man worth," and the idea of liberal first merely a means to be considered culture took strong hold of the acad­ as an end in itself, the term humani­ emies which came into being in re­ ties came to indicate the language and sponse to social needs during the first literature of the ancients, and the aim half century of our national life. Part­ of education came to be thought of in ly at least through the influence of the terms of language and literature in­ academies upon the colleges, this idea stead of in terms of life. Furthermore, became the dominant note in Ameri­ the formal instead of the content or can college education during the nine­ literary side of the e writers became teenth century; education came to be of greater importance, and thus a type regarded as a good thing in itself. The of education developed which was de­ gradual encroachment of the sciences cidedly narrower than and inferior to and modern culture subjects in the the liberal education out of which it college also led finally to the adoption grew. The religious doctrinal inter­ of the elective system and with it the ests occasioned by the Reformation be­ abandonment,' to a large extent, of the Ran to exert a powerful influence on disciplinary basis of education, even in hiRher education, and the aims of the the collegiate study of the classical universities again became disciplinary languages. But the multiplication of and ecclesiastical. Now the first Lat­ courses and freedom of election, while in schools and coHeRes in America not inconsistent with the idea of cul- were direct outgrowths of the Refor­ ture, have tended to take away all mation spirit. They were established content from the conception. People to train up young men "for the serv­ generally, and even educators, had so ice of God in church and common- long associated the conception of cul- MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 15 tural education with its older instru­ ences. If culture is the rise of the indi­ ments (the classics) that, finding no vidual into the life of the race, a social longer any unanimity regarding the character must always have bel onged curriculum, no clear cut notion of what to studies that yielded real culture. a liberal education is or how it is to be Why were the classics once the chief secured, they have shown some tend­ instruments of culture ? Because they ency to discredit the unknown object were the ark in which was preserved "as an elegant superfluity or useless so much of the higher life of the race, ornament." There is, therefore, need because they gave the individual stu­ of a re-statement of the significance dent a fuller membership in the life of and meaning of culture and a re-asser­ mankind. And the cla ics have tion of its claims as a university ideal. ceased to hold the place they once did For one thing, culture must mean because of the rise of modern humani­ enlightenment, a catholic intellectual ties which, however deficient in form sympathy an ability to share in the and disciplinary quality they may be, world's best inheritance in the great do really aim to explore human life realms of human thinking, a social ori­ and to reveal to the student his social entation which reveals to the indi­ world, to broaden his sympathies and vidual his relations to other persons to quicken and give direction to his and orce. The specialist who lacks moral impulses. And thi is culture: thi culture must sometimes feel like to be possessed of insight into and ap­ the Indian lost in his own field, the preciation of modern ciyilization and forest, and hi only excuse must be to be responsive to its claim upon one. virtually the same: "Indian not 10 ·t, o course if we rely entirely upon the camp lost." He may have control of modern humanities we are liable to get his own powers of thinking and acting only the short modern view, our con­ but he has lost the rest of the world. nections with the pa t upon which the But the cultivated man has come out modern thought rests are likely to be of his provincial intellectual habit and revealed only indirectly and obscurely, knows something of what the world and we fall short of a complete orien­ at large is thinking and doing and tation. Nor do I suppose that classi­ what the impulses are that are moving cal literature is incapable of reyealing it. A university should give men and as much or even more to us than it did women, as it were, the freedom of the in the universities of the sixteenth cen­ 1110dern world so that they will not tury. But we have other mean of se­ bury their heads in particular interests curing insiO'ht into the relation of the but will stand high enough to survey ancient and the modern , orId, clas i­ the field of human interests and activi­ cal literature is in fact too good for ties and see where the tides move. It everybody enrolled in a modern . mer­ should generalize each generation of ican univer ity, and cannot be made a students as they come on and give universal educational in trument in them a view of the stage as a whole our univer ities of this O'eneration. and the plot of the drama of life be­ Then there are the natural science' fore they take up their several parts so characteri tic a phase of human in the play. thinking in modern times. As culture As educational instruments there demand in ight, and science ha , dur­ are in the first place the social sci- ing the nineteenth century, tran- 16 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. formed the world as the scene of the values is possible. This seems to me human drama, and the scientific meth­ especially important for a state for it od has become the universal method should be not only an organ of demo­ of inquiry, the method of thinking that cratic society, but the highest expres­ has proved most fruitful, no one can sion of democracy itself; and the most today lay claim to cultivation who is disintegrating, most fundamental and ignorant alike of the achievements and harmful division of a community into the method of modern science. Es­ classes is not that based upon material pecially it would seem that the scien­ wealth, but a division into the intel­ tific habit and attitude of mind are lectually and artistically rich and poor essential elements in a liberal educa­ which results in one group doing the tion today and that in large measure productive work of the world but not the future of our civilization depends being able to share in the moral, social upon the widening spread and deepen­ and aesthetic values of that work, ing hold of this attitude. How to while another appropriates the values mature it and make it effective is one but does not render social service. The of the great problems of a university. work of a university should be carried It must emphasize fundamental prin­ on in an atmosphere permeated with ciples more than processes and train ethical and aesthetic ideals, and stu­ its students to drink at the fountains dents in all departments should be in of scientific inquiry in tead of con­ constant touch with the best in the tenting themselves with tapping only realms of literature, music and the fine the lower courses of the streams. Some arts. Taste, character and religion insight, too, into the essential unity of should at least be given a chance to nature and its laws is involved in a be caught if they are not taught. liberal education, and scientific study In the educational ideals of our own cannot fully prosper or have its best time, with our vaguer perception of effects in isolation, for every science the meaning of culture, we may per­ is indissolubly related to others. In haps note chiefly one great change fact even the natural sciences exist from the Greek conception of a liberal only as an historical process, a bit of education: we tend to emphasize historical life; they have had their powers of material achievement where heroes and martyrs, their struggles the Greeks set up the aim of aesthetic with prejudice and superstition and expression of personality, but the their glorious triumphs; and they change is not an unmitigated blessing should have something to do with nor an unqualified advance. Situated forming the social or moral ideals for as you are here in the midst of rapid the sake of which they are used, and stupendous industrial progress whether this is done in the science and ministering to the needs of the courses themselves or by the depart­ most virile and proaressive population ment of philosophy. on this continent, the University of But culture is not merely insight, it Minnesota will doubtless often be is also appreciation; and a university called upon to meet the customary should aim to bring all of its students American tests of efficiency; but there to an appreciation of the great values is also here a great opportunity and an of life to an attitude of mind from obligation to train men and women in which a sane criticism of life and life's the fine art of living. All values go

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MINNESOTA. ALUMNI WEEKLY. 17 back ultimately to personal worth, and papers, three banks, six saloons, two uni­ all educational effort must justify it­ versities, and was just planning for a self finally in its ability to further bet­ third. Of course in the town in question ter living. The aesthetic has a close a university was any institution of learn­ kinship with the still higher values, ing other than a common school. This and a university should enable its stud­ is a typical case. Throughout the coun­ ents to enter into all values with ap­ try at times the term "university" has preciation and conviction, for "where been attached to a great variety of insti­ shall wi dom be found" if not in a uni­ tutions, with the vaguest possible con­ versity? notation. It has the advantage of sound­ I would not depreciate the signi­ ing bigger than "college" or "school" or ficance of other university ideals, but "academy." Again, in other parts of the I take pleasure in enforcing the claims land it apparently has been considered of culture. A university should gradu­ that a university differs from a college ate men and women whose judgment merely in bigne s, and therefore that any has been sobered by the lessons of the college if sufficiently large may properly past and by the methods and spirit of be called a university. Here at once modern science; who have acquired in­ there is a line of connection that runs tellectual toleration and social sym­ through the previous consideration, the pathy; who have taste, insight and a essential idea being that of magnitude. capacity for devotion to g~eat causes. In quite a different sense the term has been used as applied to a group of col­ PRESIDENT FI LEY'S AD­ leges. Here we are reaching firm DRESS. ground. This is essentially of course the Engli h idea. The University of Oxford The Weekly has been unable to se­ consisted of a federation of more or less cure the address of President John independent colleges. It is in this sense H. Finley, of the University of the I suppose that the state universities have City of New York. The address will been organized, and while in their in­ be printed in a later issue of the Week­ cipiency perhaps the name "university" ly in form so that it can be clipped and was rather indicative of hope and ambi­ pasted in this issue in the proper tion than of realization, still as time has place. President Finley's address was passed on and organization has become a notable one and we regret that we more definite and standards have become cannot give it in this issue.-Ed. better the tate university is very prop­ erly a group of colleges. THE IDEA OF RESEARCH. Within the last generation, however, By Harry Pratt Judson President of the another step has been taken in the de­ University of Chicago. velopment of universities, and two new One of the most whimsical facts in ideas have appeared. The fir t is that of our educational history is the great va­ the so-called "graduate school," which riety of meanings given in different parts essentially is simply an organization for of the country and at different times to training those who have taken their bac­ the term "university." We are all fa­ calaureate degree in some specialty,­ miliar with the thriving frontier town, geology, chemistry, political economy, one of whose prominent citizens boasted law, or what-not. Accompanying this is that it was growing in population and the idea of research. This implies that business very rapidly, had two news- one essential function of the university is 18 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

the pursuit of new truth. Of course the which have made it possible to eliminate graduate school idea and the research malaria and yellow fever in the way of idea are to a very considerable extent preventive medicine are familiar to all; conjoined, as the specialist must himself the discoveries which have made it pos­ be an investigator. Therefore the uni­ sible to cure in nearly all cases of cere­ versity professor is engaged primarily in bro-spinal meningitis and other virulent investigation, and at the same time he diseases have also yielded large results. is training the graduate students in in­ The foundation of the Rockefeller Insti­ vestigative method. tute of Medical Research, and many The definition adopted by the Associa­ other endowments for this purpose in tion of American Universities may per­ this country and abroad, are certain to haps be considered as indicative of the be of benefit to humanity beyond the present trend of thought in that direction. power of words to describe. In like man­ In accordance with this definition the ner investigations on the part of science American university should have a have revolutionized agriculture, and strong graduate school, and if it has pro­ enormously multiplied the possibilities of fessional schools these must be essential­ the soil. These are the merest sugges­ ly graduate in character. Now I put the tions of what investigation, properly con­ statement in this form, understanding ducted, has already yielded to the ad­ distinctly the present limitation in the vantage of human power. Every uni­ regulations of the association whereby versity should have, therefore, as an es­ "at least one of the professional schools sential part of its purposes the prosecu­ must have a combined course, graduate tion of investigation in order to encour­ and collegiate, of not less than five age the advance of knowledge. years." Of course the expectation is But it should not be forgotten that that ultimately all professional schools the immediate beneficial results of inves­ will be of such character that the profes­ tigations can seldom be forecast. On the sional degree will be given only after a other hand, discovery of new truth in baccalaureate degree has been obtained, any line may easily lead to utterly un­ thus making the school essentially grad­ foreseen results of great practical value. uate. But the graduate idea implies both Men of science, therefore, should be en­ specialization and research, so that re­ couraged in their investigations in as search may be regarded as the heart of many fields as possible, with the confi­ the university idea at its present stage of dence that after all what we need is truth development. and sound knowledge. Applications are The purpose of university investigation sure to follow. is merely to ascertain new truth in the The question at once arises as to various fields of knowledge. The ad­ whether it is not better for university vance of science has of course resulted men who are engaged in research to give from the activities of the many men who their whole time to this subject, and to have been eager to extend the boundaries be released altogether from teaching. of knowledge beyond what exists. On There may be circumstances which would the brilliant results which have followed warrant such a procedure. I am satis­ these activities it is needless to dwell. fied, however, that in the great ll}ajority Few things are more fascinating than the of cases an investigator is benefited researches now under way in many parts rather than injured by a reasonable of the world in the various fields affect­ amount of teaching. He is able in this ing human health. The discoveries way often to test what he is doing, and MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 19

the contact with those who are learning everybody must be an investigator. All is in itself a stimulu s to his mind. On that is quite needless. But the university the other hand, of course he ought to be should be so adjusted as to encourage a far more fruitful and inspiring teacher research on the part of those who are from the fact that he is not giving in­ qualified to carry it on with success. formation that he has acquired in a rou­ It does not at all follow that anyone tine way, but that he is always speaking institution is under obligations to carry and working from the point of view of on research along all lines of human one who is himself a productive scholar. knowledge, or even along all lines in One may be an excellent teacher who is which the institution in question gives not a good investigator ; one may be an instruction. On the other hand, better excellent investigator who is not a good results will probably be obtained if re­ teacher; but in the long run each of these search is provided in a limited number applications ought to be of great benefit of fields; in this way it will be prosecuted to the other. As a rule it follows, there­ more effectively and far more fruitfully. fore, that research and teaching should Investigations may easily be costly. The be combined. It may easily be wise in mere fact that investigators should be case of a given investigation of large pur­ relieved from the full quota of teaching pose to release the investigator for a in itself involves additional cost to the given time from any other employment. institution. Therefore, not merely should This, however, should as a rule be wholly investigation be encouraged only among temporary. those who are good investigators, but At the same time it is obvious that no also only in those subjects for which the one can carryon an investigation satis­ university can make adequate provision. factorily if all his strength is absorbed Obviously some institutions may prose­ in teaching. Therefore the proper rela­ cute successfully certain lines of research tion of investigation and teaching should activity, and others quite different lines. be kept carefully in mind, and a good in­ In this way, taking the country at large, vestigator should be relieved from over­ the field of human knowledge should be much teaching if the best results are to adequately covered. be obtained. A fair question is whether an institu­ There is a wide variety of teaching tion supported by the state should devote ability in any faculty. Some are teachers itself largely to research. Why not? It by nature; some are teachers by exper­ is the purpose of the state, of course, to ience; some are not teachers at all. The educate its young men and women to same considerations absolutely apply to make them better and more effective citi­ research aptitude. Some men are creat­ zens. It is also the purpose of the state ed to investigate; some men learn to in­ in its educational work to provide such vestigate c.nd to do it reasonably well; knowledge as is needed not only by the others have no fitness for it at all. It young but by all parts of its population. should not therefore be presumed that To this end our states have already done everybody should be engaged in investi­ a great deal of enormously valuable work gation, or that all who are so engaged in agricultural investigations, with the should be engaged to the same extent. purpose, of course, of securing practical Where the research idea has become results which may be placed in the hands dominant oftentimes it has resulted in a of the agricultural community. This has great amount of useless work by unfit had a very great practical and financial people who have the impression that value, and bids fair to have in the future 20 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

even larger results in these ways. The culture, engineering, schools of chem­ State Geological Survey is a piece of istry, commerce, journalism, etc. The investigation of great importance, and in idea of research came into the Ameri­ its nature is essentially a part of uni­ can university in a large way when versity work. The whole question of Johns Hopkins was founded; it is now conservation of such natural resources regarded in the greater universities as as a state may possess involves investiga­ of correlative importance with that of tion scientific in character, and essentially culture. In a broad sense the idea of closely connected with the university. In culture, the idea of vocation, and the short, the state owes it to itself, to its idea of research are held and devel­ great body of citizens, and to their wel­ oped in order that the institution may fare in all fields, to follow out so far as perform service; and thus the idea of possible all investigations along lines service may be said to be the ultimate which will benefit the public. Surely purpose of the ideas of culture, voca­ nothing is more vital than public health, tion and research. but the health of the state on the moral It is to be presumed, however, that and spiritual side is quite as vital to in assigning to me the subject, The good citizenship and progress as physical Idea of Service, following addresses health itself. Investigation therefore in upon The Idea of Culture, The Idea of such lines of social activity as are con­ Vocation and The Idea of Research, nected with the care of the feeble-mind­ something different was meant. I shall ed and the delinquent classes, for in­ assume that what was meant was stance, is a legitimate subject for the something more direct than the great expenditure of state money. The state service of the in stitution through the establishes Cl nd maintains a great uni­ students who are benefited by its in­ versity. It has in mind the higher educa­ struction or the inestimable benefits of tion of its youth, in general culture and research to mankind. I shall assume in specific professions. It has in mind that what is meant is the service of also the discovery and dissemination of the institution directly to the people of new truth which will aid the people of the state and nation. the state to make their lives safer and more prosperous: It aims to do its part General Principles Involved. towards adding to the sum total of hu­ The principles which demand such man knowledge for the benefit of all service may be clearly formulated~ To mankind. about the middle of the 19th century .the advancement of knowledge was THE IDEA OF SERVICE. comparatively slow and at least a fair By President Charles R. Van Hise of proportion of the knowledge that the the University of Wisconsin. people could apply had been assimi­ The idea of culture was, and to a lated by them in the more enlightened large measure is, the central ideal of nations. But since the year 1850 the the colleges of liberal arts whether a advancement of knowledge has been part of a university or an independent greater than in a thousand and prob­ college. The idea of vocation was in­ ably in five thousand years before. The troduced with the higher educational result is that the accumulation of institutions when the demand for tech­ knowledge has far outran the assimi­ nical education arose; it is represented lation of the people. Much of this in the universities by colleges of agri- knowledge has accumulated during MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 21 the past twenty-five years-since men By the phrase "carrying out knowl­ still in full maturity have left the edge to the people" I do not mean to schools and colleges. include the regular instruction of the To il!ustrate ; We know enough so elementary, secondary, and vocational that if that knowledge were applied schools to children of school age, nor the agricultural product of the nation the instruction in colleges and univer­ could be easily doubled. We know sities. To those having the oppor­ enough about soils so that they could tunity of elementary, secondary give this result and improve in their schools, colleges, universities, and pro­ fertility instead of deteriorate. We fessional schools, the best means of know enough about scientific medicine transmitting knowledge is the regular­ so that if the knowledge were applied ly organized educational institutions; infectious and contagious diseases but as has already been indicated a could be practically eliminated within a large part of the knowledge which score of years. We know enough could be applied to the advantage of about the breeding of animals so that the people has accumulated since men if that knowledge were applied to and women of middle age have left the man, the feeble minded would disap­ schools; and also large numbers of pear in a generation, and the insane men and women, now engaged in the and criminal class be reduced to a active work of the world have not had small fraction of their present num­ the opportunities of the schools. It is bers. Even in politics we have suf­ this great class of people, constituting ficient scientific knowledge so that if roughly about four-fifths of the popu­ it were ful!y used there would be vast lation, that is now being considered. improvement in the government of Carrying out knowledge to the peo­ this country. ple requires the highest grade of ex­ The specific idea of service under perts. It involves comprehensive consideration is then that the univer­ knowledge of the more recent ad­ sity shal! carry to the people the vances along all lines. The work of knowledge which they can assimilate carrying out knowledge must be or­ for their betterment along all lines. ganized at some center. What other It may be suggested at this point organization can meet these specifi­ that, while this idea of service cannot cations better than a university? Ob­ be gainsaid, it is not a function of the jection has been made to this under­ university, but rather of some other taking by the university on the grQ1.111d instrumentality. If it is meant by this that it will involve work which is not that it has not been the function of of college grade; a further object.ion the traditional university, to this dis­ has been made that so far as the work sent cannot be made. But it seems is of university grade it cannot be to me that whether it is the function done elsewhere as well as at the cen­ of the University should be decided by tral institution. The hypothesis U?011 the simple criterion as to whether the which the first objection is based is university is the best fitted instrument that the university shall not extend to do this work. If it is so, it should its work beyon~ traditionaL bound­ do it without reference to any person's aries. The second objection is a theo­ preconceptions as to the scope of the retical one which must be weighed university. by results; and even if the objection 22 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

be sound with reference to some sub­ and the various American schools of jects, it does not follow that this is correspondence. true for all. With a few notable exceptions, how­ If a university is to have as its ever, it is clear that the university IS ideal, service on the broadest basi~, it the institution which is most advan­ cannot escape taking on the function tageously organized to carryon ex­ of carrying out knowledge to the peo­ tension work. A few years ago it ple. This is but another phraseology might have been a moot question as for university extension, if this be de­ to the advisability of recognizing as fined an extension of knowledge to a function of the university, in addi­ the masses rather than extension of tion to the instruction and investiga­ the scope of the university along tra­ tion, this third great field. But now ditional lines. The history of univer­ the consensus of judgment of men in sity extension shows that the point charge of universities has clearly de­ of view above given was appreciated cided the question. As has already in a measure by the Oxford Commis­ been indicated the idea originated at sion which drew up a scheme for ex­ Oxford; Cambridge followed Oxford's tension in 1850, more than sixty years lead. ago. So far as I am aware university ex­ I therefore conclude that the broad­ tension was first definitely organized est ideal of service demands that the in this country by the University of university as the best fitted instru­ Wisconsin. In that institution agricul­ ment shall take up the problem of car­ tural extension in the form of farmer's rying out knowledge to the people institutes had an annual appropriation so far as the same is necessary to of $12,000 as early as 1885; but it was supplement the work of the elemen­ not until 1888-89 that the English idea tary and secondary schools. of university extension was there By the above it is not meant to im­ taken up. Says the catalog of 1888-89 ply that the university is the only in­ (p. 51): "The realms of knowledge strument which can perform exten­ widen as fast as the possibilities of in­ sion service. Work of this class has struction, and faster than the possi­ been done for many years by the bilities of general reception; but it is Lowell Institute in Boston, the Coop­ no more impracticable to extend the er Institute in New York, the Pea­ popular range of university education body Institute in Baltimore, and by than to extend the sweep of the uni­ other less noted institutions. These versity courses. It can scarcely be institutions have special foundations, more prophetic to contemplate the the money of which was largely grant­ higher education of the masses today ed for what now may be called ex­ than it was to look forward to the tension work; they are conclusive evi­ common education of the masses a few dence that the founders had a clear centuries ago. The latter nears its appreciation of the needs of the peo­ realization; endeavor now begins to ple for the extension of knowledge. reach forward toward the former." Other important instrumentalities for While not signed, unquestionably extension are the various lyceum bu­ these are the words of Dr. T. C. reaus, Chautauquas and their summer Chamberlin, then president of Wiscon­ schools, literary and scientific circles sin. MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 23

The English extension idea soon training department. Three of these spread and was taken up not only by later were discontinued but two of other universities but by many organ­ these departments have kept up thelr izations and societies; some of the lat­ actlvity to the present time. ter being formed definitely for this Annual Register, University of Chi­ work. For instance, extension work cago, 1892-93, pp. 173-191S. began at Minnesota in 1890-91, only Wlsconsin as among the univer­ two years later than at Wisconsin, the sities in which the extension move- work being done at St. Paul under the ment, pushed with enthusiasm for a auspices of the Academy of Science, few years, later waned in its influence. and in Minneapolis under the direction It was not until the year 1906-07 that of the Public Library Board. the extension division, then moribund, Proceedings of the First Annual Meet- was reorganized on a new basis. ing of the National Conference on Since that time a large number of University Extension, pp. 201-202. state universities have again taken up The earliest and perhaps the most extension work vigorously and the successful of the independent societies movement has greatly expanded in was the American Society for the Ex­ the endowed institutions. tension of University Teaching at According to Dean Reber of the Philadelphia. University of Wisconsin, in 1910, The idea of extension caught like twenty-one state universities reported wildfire and by the end of 1890 it is themselves as having organized ex­ reported that more than two hundred tension divisions under a permanent organizations were carrying on exten­ director or committee, and almost sion in nearly every state of the without exception, the twenty-five or Union; and a national conference on more independent agricultural and university extension was held in De­ mechanical colleges are doing eA"ten­ cember, 1891, at Philadelphia. sion work. The list of state universi­ The extension movement, taken up ties is as follows: with great enthusiasm, has an imme­ Colifornia, Colorado, Florida, diate success; but like many other Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Min­ propaganda its activity and strength nesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebras­ were largely ephemeral. In a few ka, North Dakota, evada, Oklahoma, years, with the exception of Agricul­ Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, tural extension, there was a distinct Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. decline in the power of the movement, University Extension by Louis E. Re- and many institutions which still an­ ber, Eleventh Annual Conference of nounced extension did this work only the Association of American U ni­ to a very small amount. One marked versities, p. 58. exception to this is the University of Columbia and Harvard will illus­ Chicago. Its first annual register an­ trate the recent expansion of extension nounced a comprehensive university work in the endowed universities. In extension division which included a Columbia until the year 1910-11 exten­ lecture study department, a class work sion was carried on under the trustees department, a correspondence teach· of Teachers' College, but beginning ing department, an examination de­ with that year the university took full partment, a library department, and a control and financial responsibility for 24 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

extension teaching, a director being of Harvard College, 1909-10, pp. 20- placed in charge of the work. Presi­ 22. dent Butler says it is the purpose to Chicago has already been mentioned. extend the class room and laboratory Other endowed institutions are carry­ work in the evening in New York ing on more or less extension work. City and in neighboring parts of New Among these are Brown University, Jersey, N ew York and Connecticut, Tulane, Pittsburg and Northwestern. and, in addition, evening classes will The rejuvenated movement for uni­ be organized which may be taken ad­ versity extension, beginning about five vantage of by wageworkers. years ago, has shown power and Annual Report of President Butler, breadth. The new movement, guided Columbia University, pp. 33-34. 'by the experiences and disappoint­ President Lowell's report for 1909- ments of previous years, is upon a 10, tells of the formation of a perman- sounder and broader basis than here­ ent commission on extension courses, tofore. Indeed it may be said that the containing representatives of Harvard policy of carrying out knowledge to and Boston universities, the Massa­ the people has become a general one chusetts Institute of Technology, Bos­ with the majority of the stronger ton, Tufts, Wellesley and Simmons American educational institutions; and Colleges, and the Museum of Fine it may be confidently predicted that Arts. The commission arranges that those universities that have not al­ instructors in these institutions have ready recognized this will do so in the courses which are identical with or near future. equivalent to those offered in the vari­ I shall therefore use the remainder ous institutions. The courses are of my time in giving a brief outline of maintained in part by fees from the extension endeavor in this country students and part from subscriptions without any attempt to make the same from the Boston Chamber of Com­ exhaustive as to the particular lines of merce and the Lowell Institute. The work done by the different institu­ detailed administration of the exten­ tions. So far as specific institutions sion work has been undertaken by are referred to this will be merely for Harvard and an administrative board the purpose of illustration. for extension work was created with a dean for its chairman. For students The Lyceum Method of Extension. taking work by extension a special de­ The extension method of Oxford gree has been instituted by Harvard, was that of a set of lectures with col­ Radcliffe, Tufts, and Wellesley, that of loquiums and examinations. Naturally associate in arts to be conferred upon this was the first method of extension those taking courses equal in number transported to this country. As al­ and character to those required for the ready noted, the method was enthusi­ degree of bachelor of arts without any astically accepted by many universi­ requirements for entrance. It is inter­ ties, but few have persisted in continu­ esting to note that this degree of as­ ing it on a large scale. sociate in arts will suffice for admis­ The chief iIIustrations are The Uni­ sion to the graduate schools of Har­ versity of Chicago in the city of that vard university and other institutions. name and Columbia University in the Report of the President and Treasurer City of New York. Much has been President Northrop Mrs. Cyrus Northrop

Mrs. Willjaffi Watts Folwell MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEta;t. 25 accomplished by the method, but its versity extension so long cultivated by limitations have clearly appeared. The the university." He states, however, difficulties of a sparsely settled coun­ that if this is inevitable it is to be try have prevented its wide applica­ hoped that the university will give it­ tion, and in those institutions which self with increased energy to the more are located in a great city with a sur­ thorough development of the field for rounding dense population the move­ popular adult education in Chicago ment has been most useful. Another and its suburbs. difficulty with the lecture system is President's Report, The University of that it has been self supporting. In Chicago, pp. 99-101. order to accomplish this it has been The above gives some of the reasons necessary to have classes of large size; why the lyceum method of university it has been necessary to make the extension to a certain extent has had treatment popular; and it has been a " flash in the pan" history, and only' necessary in the same community to in t wo or three institutions has settled follow one popular series of lectures into a steady flame. by another of a wholly different kind. While I would not underestimate Instruction by Correspondence. the importance of the influence of ex­ A second phase of extension work tension lectures and the inspiration is that of instruction by correspond­ aroused by them, the method has the ence. In this line the proprietary fundamental defect that it consists schools, not the university, first found mainly in pouring in knowledge upon the opportunity, exactly as education the recipients rather than consistent in medicine and law were not first de­ instruction for some length of time veloped in connection with the univer­ along definite lines,-involving not sity but in the proprietary school. The only pouring in but drawing out, not great service which the proprietary giving information merely, but re­ correspondence school has performed quiring students to do work. In short to education in this country cannot be the lecture system is informational gainsaid. Hundreds of thousands, in­ rather than educational. deed it is claimed, millions of students The above facts have led to this have received valuable instruction class of work being dubbed "second through this medium. rate at second hand." 'While many universities have an­ It is notable in this connection that nounced courses for many years, Chi­ the secretary of the lecture study de­ cago has primacy in maintaining a partment at the University of Chicago successful correspondence department reports a marked decline in the last on a large scale. As has already been few years in the number of lecture indicated correspondence work was courses given and depletion of the begun at the time of the foundation ranks of successful workers; as a re­ of the university. sult the existence of centers at a dis­ Contrasting with the lecture work tance from Chicago is very seriously the correspondence study department threatened. Says the secretary: "It at Chicago has continued rapidly to is with keenest regret that we are grow. Then number of registration forced to contemplate withdrawal from has increased from 1,485 in 1901-02 to any portion of this larger field of uni- 4,010 in 1909-10 and in the latter year 26 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. the actual number of different stu­ ments are made with those in charge dents was 2,755. Also the force of the of the manufactory for the traveling faculty engaged in carrying on cor­ professor to meet the men from time respondence during the same period to time. In most cases the manufac­ increased from 23 to 89. turer is willing to furnish a room for President's report, The University of this purpose and gives the men the Chicago, 1909-10, pp. 102-106. time necessary for them to meet their The Chicago correspondence work instructor without reduction of pay. At includes that required for entrance to present Wisconsin in carrying on a the university and courses of college number of classes of this kind. Supple­ grade, each of which is recognized for menting correspondence work by class its particular purpose when satisfac­ room work places the institution on a torily completed and an examination new and higher basis. One result of passed. the improvement is that instead of a At Wisconsin the correspondence very large percentage dropping out work differs from that in Chicago in before completing a course as is the that a large proportion of it is voca­ case in the proprietary schools, the tional. Out of 4,026 doing correspond­ percentage is small. ence work in 1910-11, 3,322 were carry­ There can be no question that cor­ ing vocational courses not of college respondence work, especially if it be grade or designed for entrance to col­ correspondence supplemented by class lege. This work is very large with ap­ room work, has an enormous advan­ prentices and artisans, who, finding tage over the lyceum method, in that that their vocational training is in­ it is truly educational; in that it de­ adequate (indeed there has been op­ mands that students do definite and portunity to obtain regular vocational systematic work under the guidance of training in this coun try), desire to a teacher. gain knowledge of the industry in Both at Chicago and at Wisconsin which they are engaged whether it be correspondence work, when satisfac­ pattern making, plumbing, machine torily done in courses of standard work, foundry work, etc., etc. character, is accepted to one half the This is the class of work in which amount required for a degree ; thus the proprietary correspondence schools the student may do one half work for have found their great opportunity, al­ a baccalaureate degree in absentia. though their work is not confined to it. Also a certain, but not so definite, an When vocational correspondence amount of graduate work may be done work was developed at Wisconsin de­ to count toward a second degree. fects appeared. The method required Upon a priori grounds many objec­ an unnatural amount of stamina; an tions have been brought forward by artisan who never came in contact professors against accepting such work with his teacher would not continue for credit toward a degree, and un­ work by himself in the evening after doubtedly some subjects can better be he had finished his day's work in the treated by correspondence than others. shop. This difficulty is met at Wisconsin by To remedy these defects a group of requiring no department to offer cor­ vocational students in a large shop are respondence work. It is the testimony given the same work, and arrange- of those men in departments that have MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. correspondence courses that they suc­ General Welfare Work. ceed in getting work of at least as high average grade as from an equal All of the above lines of extension number of resident students. work are of a kind for which a fee I t is my profound conviction that may be charged, and which therefore the correspondence method of instruc­ can be made to a greater or less extent tion will become of increasing impor­ self supporting. In many cases these tance in work of college grade, and lines of endeavor have been made al­ that it has enormous opportunity in together self supporting, but it cannot vocational work at least to such time be hoped that this will be true in the in the future as continuation and voca­ future. Extension if made truly edu­ tional schools are developed in this cational along the highest lines and country on a basis as thoroughgoing with the best results, like any other as in some parts of Germany. educational work, will inevitably be­ come a source of expense to an institu­ Regular Classes. tion. For another class of extension there A third line of extension work is is no return in fees; it is wholly a that of systematic instruction at other source of expense. This may be called places than the university by regular general welfare work. In such work members of the staff. So far as 1 every university in the country is en­ know this method is most extensively gaged in varying degree; and in many in vogue at Columbia; it has been ap­ of them it is important; but so far as plied to a certain extent at Harvard, I know this division of extension work to a small extent at Wisconsin in the is on a more systematic basis at Wis­ city of Milwaukee, and perhaps by consin than elsewhere; and therefore other institutions. that institution is used for illustrating Undoubtedly this is the most satis­ the principle. factory form of university extension. Some of the functions of the depart­ Indeed at the centers where are prop­ ment of general welfare in vVisconsin er facilities in the form of books, or are as follows: It serves as a cIearin

politics, ethics, sociology, education, ,; be made, that these valuations be ad­ conservation, technical questions in I justed each year, that the rates of de­ agriculture, engineering, manufactur­ preciation be determined, and in fact ing mechanics, etc. A vast amount of all information with reference to cost work in the general welfare depart­ and operation which can be deter­ ment has been done without differen­ mined by engineering experts. Simi­ tiation, including the answers of many lar information is needed 'by the tax thousands of questions, conferences commission. The above work is done upon many matters, and assistance to for the railway and tax commissions many individuals and organizations. of Wisconsin by the engineering staff of the university, civil, mechanical, Expert Service to the State. electrical. Certain lines of general welfare A very important technical service work have become so important that performed by the university staff is they have become definitely fornm­ that of service upon state commis­ la ted into special fields. One of these sions without compensation from the is service by a staff of university ex­ state. These include the live stock perts with reference to economic, sanitary board, the geological and nat­ social, engineering, and other technical ural history commission, the board of questions, which arise in the legisla­ agriculture, the forestry commission, ture, before the commissions, or in the board of immigration, the free library various state departments, and insti­ commission, the conservation com­ tutions. In 1909-10 there were no less mission, etc. than thirty-six men doing instruction­ Another important line of expert al work in the university who are also service is that done by a large num­ doing expert work for the state. These ber of professors who do not have lines of co-operation, so far as finances definite places on commissions, as for are concerned, are divided as follows: instance, the work of the professors (a) The compensation of the staff of political economy, political science, is partly paid from the university law, and sociology, who at the request of the committees of the legislature funds and partly from the state funds, assist in the formulation of bills. In usually with, but in some cases, with­ some cases professors have worked out a definite combination arrange­ with the committees during several ment. months in the formulation of impOrt­ (b) Men receiving their compensa­ ant pieces of legislation, such as that tion from the university serve on vari­ of the railway commission, a water ous commissions :as experts and in power law, etc. other ways without pay from the state. Finally, men whose main service is (c) Some men receive their com­ to the state and whose compensation pensation from the state and render comes from that source give lectures instructional work in the university in the university, as in the case of the without pay. head of the legislative reference li­ In the state of Wisconsin is a pub­ brary and of the bureau of forestry. lic utilities law. The wise enforce­ ment of this law by a railway com­ In short, it may be said that for mission requires that a physical valu­ many aspects of state administration ation of each of the public utilities and legislation requiring expert ad- MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 29 vIce the assistance in which the uni­ problems is strictly scientific and not versity is called upon for help. a word of criticism haro appeared. Help is granted when asked for; great care is exercised in not to volunteer in Debating and Public Discussion. these matters lest the impression Another class of general welfare should become justified that the uni­ work ,'vhich has been regUlarly organ­ versity is exercising its influence in ized is that of debating and public fields not belonging within its scope. discussion. The American youth The University of Wisconsin is not everywhere wishes to debate. At the the only institution in which experts cross-roads and in the country town of the university are serving the state are scanty libraries, or none at all, and and municipalities. Harvard has a he is unable to wisely decide upon legislative municipal reference depart­ questions for discussion. As a result ment; Columbia has a legislative draft­ of the establishment of this depart­ ing department. Some states have ment various political and social ques­ legislative reference department which tion before the people have been for­ ask the co-operation of their univer­ mulated as subjects for debate. Syllabi sities to a greater or less extent. Here have been prepared which give in out­ are included Indiana, Illinois, N ebras­ line the legitimate arguments on both ka and California. In a number of uni­ sides of the question, with references. versities there is co-operation in muni­ Since the rural community has not cipal work. These are illustrated by the briefs and documents referred to Johns Hopkins and Chicago. Indeed the municipal research and reference these are sent with the questions, and departments in many states are calling are available to both sides. The most upon professors in the universities for burning political questions of the day expert service. have been analyzed and sent out to all parts of the state, such a the . pri­ Municipal Reference Bureau. mary election, the election of senators by popular vote, the commission form Another line of general welfare of city government, the guaranty of work which has been definitely or­ bank deposits, etc. And yet so fairly ganized is a municipal reference bu­ have the two sides of the question reau. This bureau furnishes informa­ been presented in the syllabi that tion on all .subjects of municipal organ­ there has been no complaint with ref­ ization and administration, including erence to this department. public utilities, paving, sewage dis­ posal, water supply, and the hundred Educational Exhibits. other problems having scientific as­ Another class of general welfare pects which arise in a city. The es­ work in \Vi consin is that of educa­ tablishment of this bureau at Wiscon­ tional exhibits of various kind which sin has been a marked success from are made at the county fairs, the state the outset. At first there was some fairs, the villages and citie. This fear that such a bureau might create class of exhibits may be illustrated by criticism for the university as entering the tuberculosis e.."hibit which has into questions having a political 'bear­ been shown in those towns of the ing, but the information furnished by state many in number which would the university in reference to various furnish quarters for the exhibit, all 30 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

without cost to the community except effect. It is necessary to go out and that of transportation. figuratively knock the farmer over the head with agricultural knowledge in Institute Welfare. I order to get him to apply it. Thus Another line of work which has there has been organized by the been undertaken is that of institutes. United States government and by the These may be of vocational nature various state experiment stations and lasting a few days, such as the bakers' agricultural colleges, extensions on a institutes, or may concern society and vast scale, including farmers insti­ educational questions, as in the case of tu tes, farmers' schools, short courses the municipal and social institute held for farmers at the university, demon­ in Milwaukee in 1901-11, which ex­ strations in the field of various kinds tended through six months. demonstration farms, dissemination of high-bred seeds through organizations General. such as the agricultural experiment The above sketch of the welfare at association, comprising the graduates Wisconsin is not designed to be ex­ of the institutions, boys' clubs leading haustive but merely illustrative. It is to contests in county fairs, dairy scor­ clear that there is no limit to the ing exhibitions, extension lectures, etc. amount of that class of extension work With reference to the future there which may be advantageously done. can be no question as to the prime im­ It is, however, a work which cannot portance of the agricultural extension be made self-sustaining. The funds work. Already in this country, a com­ have come mainly from the extension paratively new one, a large proportion appropriation, although in some cases, of the land east of the Allegheneys as in that of the municipal and social and Blue Ridge and a considerable por­ institute at Milwaukee, special gifts tion of it even so far west as the Mis­ were received. The Anti-tuberculosis sissippi River, has become more or Association has contributed to the ex­ less depleted in richness, and large pense of the tuberculosis exhibit from areas have been partially or wholly the sales of the red cross seals. destroyed. In the years to come there must be Agricultural Extension. food and clothing from our soil for hundreds of millions of people instead The foregoing statement as to the of a hundred million, and within two scope of extension has not included ag­ or three centuries five hundred million ricultural extension which is a class people. If this vast host is not to be of work by itself, having manifold severely circumscribed in the develop­ phases, and which to treat adequately ment as are the people in India and would occupy my full time. Suffice China by insufficient food and poor to say that it has not been found ade­ clothing, this can only be accom­ quate to make agricultural discoveries plished by the dissemination of agri­ at the various scientific agricultural cultural science to more than five mil­ stations of the world, at the station at lions of farmers of the country, a truly Washington, and the various stations colossal task; and yet one which must of the states. These may be embodied into bulletins and distributed broad­ 'be vigorously and successfully con­ cast without producing a widespread fronted. MlNNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 31

$75,000 for the second year of the bien­ Conclusion. nium; and also $30,000 a year for two It is apparent from the foregoing years for agricultural extension in ad­ summary that the work of carrying out dition to $20,000 per annum for farm­ knowledge to the people is one of ers' institutes. enormous magnitude and not inferior In the year 1911 the legislature in­ in importance or in opportunity to the creased the appropriation for general functions of the university earlier re­ extension to $100,000 for the current cognized,-those of instruction and re­ year and $125,000 for the year follow­ search. The work is so vast that it ing; and for agricultural extension can be best organized with the states $40,000 a year for two years, in addi­ as centers. In those states in which tion to the appropriation for farmers' the universities are mainly endowed institutes. Thus there will be available institutions these may well co-operate for extension work of all kinds in Wis­ with one another, as is now proposed consin for the current year $100 000 in Massachusetts. plus the fees, and for the coming year In those states in which the univer­ $185,000. sities are tax supported institutions It should be noted that these in­ they are the natural centers of organi­ creases in appropriations for extension zation. have not resulted in curtailing the ap­ ·When fully developed the work will propriations for the other divisions of not only involve in each state a center the university. Indeed it has been at the university but district centers. easier to secure appropriations for Already in Wisconsin three such dis­ other lines of work because extension trict centers in addition to the center has been undertaken. The last \Vi - at Madison are established and it is con in legi lature for the general pur­ planned ultimately to organize several poses of the University and for per­ others. It should be realized at the manent improvements, educational outset that effectively carrying out buildings, land, etc., granted precisely knowledge to the people will prove to the amount which the university au­ be expensive. For the work definite thorities requested. funds must be available, precisely as Aside from Wisconsin, excluding for the other colleges and divisions of agricultural extension so far as I am the university. We may confidently informed the following in titution predict that extension work will be only have specific appropriations for sympathized with by state legislatures extension. and will be one or which an appeal Clark University-$5000. may be successfully made. To illus­ Columbia Univer ity- 30,000. trate, at VVi sconsin in 1905, enough Harvard University for the year work was done in extension from ap­ 1910-11 from the Lowell Institute and propriations made to the university Chamber of Commerce-$9.150. University of Maine- 1,900. for general purposes so that by the University of Michigan-$lO.000. year 1907 the legislature was asked for University of l\1ontana- 1.000. $20,000 a year for this work for two Ohio tate University-$40.000. years. This sum was granted. Two University of Vermont-$1000. years later in 1909, there were ap­ These appropriations are annual ttnle S otherwi e specified. To these propriated for general university ex­ amounts should be added the fees tension $50,000 for the first year and which go to the extension work. . 32 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

As already indicated, nearly all of In behalf of the Students: Mr. Stan­ the agricultural colleges are doing ex­ ley Gillam, of the Class of 1912, tension work, either with specific ap­ Windom. propriations or from their general funds: amounts devoted to such work In behalf of the Alumni: The Rev­ varying from $50,000 to $60,000 per erend J ohn Walker Powell, D. D ., annum, as in the case of Cornell and of the Class of 1893, Duluth. Wisconsin respectively, to compara­ In behalf of the Faculties: Profes­ tively small sums. sor Emeritus William Watts Fol­ These facts presented make it clear that utilizing the opportunity to carry well, A. M., LL. D. out knowledge to the people will be an Presentation of the President : Presi­ advantage rather than a disadvantage dent Emeritus Cyrus Northrop, to the growth of the university along LL. D. other lines. But this should not be its Formal Induction into Office: Presi­ purpose ; the purpose should dent Lind, of the Board of Regents. Order of the Inaugural Exercises. Address : President George Edgar Vincent, Ph. D., LL. D. The Honorable John Lind, President Song: Minnesota. of the Board of Regents, Presid­ Benediction : Bishop John Heyl Vin­ ing. cent, D. D ., Chancellor of Chautau­ Hymn :-America. qua Institution. Invocation: The Reverend Humph­ rey Moynihan, A. M., DD., Rector GREETINGS FROM THE STATE of the College of Saint Thomas, OF MINNESOTA. Saint Paul. By Governor A. O. Eberhart. Greetings: President Vincent: In behalf of the State: The Honor­ The people of Minnesota take this able Adolph Olson Eberhart, occasion to extend to you and your Governor of the State of Minne­ estimable family the most sincere sota. greetings and hearty welcome, and to In behalf of the Publi c Schools: The show you the great interest they have Honorable Charles G. Schulz, in their university and the cause of State Superintendent of Public popular education which it represents. Instruction. Realizing the importance of free In behalf of the Normal Schools: popular education, the 'builders of our The Honorable Ell Torrance, state laid the foundation to one of the President of the Normal School best public school systems ever es­ Board. tablished, and provided for its support In behalf of the Colleges of the a permanent school fund, which today State: The Reverend John N. approximates $27,000 000, and which Kildahl, A. B., President of Saint within 50 years will exceed $150,000,- Olaf College, Northfield. 000, according to reliable estimates. In behalf of the State Universities: With such a large school fund to guar­ President William Oxley Thomp­ antee a liberal education to all and in son, DD., LL. D ., of the Ohio addition thereto a most generous sup­ State University, President of the port from the people of the entire National Association of State state, no man was ever offered a great­ Universities. er opportunity nor charged with a Presidents Northrop - Folwell - incent Rev. Elijah W. Merrill Principal of the Preparatory School 1851 to 1855 Edward D. Neill Chancellor of the University, \860-61 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 33

greater responsibility than the presi­ development we shall succeed in dent of the University of Minnesota. granting equal rights to all and spe­ This day marks an epoch in the cial privileges to none, if we shall history of our state. While compara­ maintain a strict state and national in­ tively young, our state is recognized tegrity, and if we shall lead the na­ as one of the leading states in the tions of the world in the establish­ Union, and we cannot look back upon ment of universal peace and brother­ our career without recognizing the hood,-then our educational institu­ great influence for good exerted by tions must train the youth in the du­ our university under the efficient lead­ ties and responsibilities of self gov­ ership of President Northrop. That ernment. this new epoch, with unparalleled op­ President VitLcent: Representing portunities, will make the university the great commonwealth of Minneso­ a still greater force for intellectuql, ta, I speak for over 2,000,000 people, moral, and social advancement, no as intelligent, industrious, and pros­ one, who knows President Vincent, perous as can be found anywhere. will doubt. The state of Minnesota Their co-operation and support I maintains this institution that those pledge to you, their respect and love who study may better fit themselves shall be your reward. for all duties of citizenship and be May this institution under your able to render the state greater serv­ guidance prepare the boys and girls ice in return. No education is worthy of Minnesota, not for school, but for of the name that does not accomplish life, that they may bequeath to un­ for the student such a proportionate born generations the greatest of all development of all faculties of mind legacies, the memory of a noble char­ and body as will result in more effi­ acter and a well spent life! Then, and and the building up of a stronger and 110t otherwise, shall this university, cient service, right living, well doing, and the culture that it represents, en­ better citizenship. dure until the gathering shadows of While the great function of a uni­ time have collected into the night that versity is to distribute knowledge, it precedes the dawn of eternity. should also be a positive factor in the solving of every problem that con­ GREETINGS FROM THE PUBLIC fronts the state. In government, it SCHOOLS. should represent the highest ideals of By C. G. Schulz, Superintendent of civic righteousness, in citizenship the Public Instruction. cleanest and most intelligent. This is In a broad sense the public school is essential in a cosmopolitan nation like an elementary university. It is the con­ ours, where citizenship is limited only crete expression of the idea through by the confines of the human race and which the state seeks to equalize opor­ where industrial and commercial in­ tunity. Its principal aim is to give alike fluence is exerted in the remotest cor­ to all that elementary instruction and ners of the globe. If the people of our training which is essential to citizenship, state and nation shall have the right useful activity and right living. conception of law, freedom, and jus­ Our public school system forms a har­ tice, if in the achievement of our un­ monious whole. Its parts articulate. Its paralleled industrial and commercial tra.ining is not only cultural, but prac- MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. tical. The immediate need for the great­ of Minnesota and August 2d, 1858, just er efficiency of public school work is a eighty-three days after Minnesota had trained and permanent body of instruct­ been admitted into the Union, Governor ors and leaders who ~ill make of teach­ Sibley approved an act establishing a ing a recognized profession. system of normal schools, only four of The high schools, the graded and the the sixty-nine members of the Legisla­ rural schools look with confidence to the ture voting against the measure. The University for leadership in public edu­ value of the normal school was thus rec­ cation. This great institution is so ad­ ognized by the founders of the common­ justing its relations to all public school wealth as essential in maintaining an activities that its guiding and inspiring efficient common school system and pav­ influence will be manifest in every de­ ing the way for a more advanced colle­ partment of public school work. giate course. I express on behalf of the leaders in As a result of this legislation the Wi­ public education for eighty-five counties, nona Normal in June, 1910, celebrated of superintendents and principals of high the semi-centennial of its existence and and graded schools, of fifteen thousand emphasized the remarkable fact that it teachers and twenty-five thousand school was the fourteenth normal school estab­ officers, a continuance of the interest and lished in the United States and had grad­ confidence which the public schools have uated and given to the state of Minne­ entertained for the State University un­ sota 3,327 teachers. Today Minnesota der your predecessor. has five well equipped and flourishing We have an abiding faith that under normal schools and has graduated more your leadership the University will at­ than 10,000 trained teachers, many of tain still greater power in extending its whom have reached distinction as edu­ means of service for public school work, cators, and the great majority of whom and in establishing a relationship between have rendered faithful, efficient and long itself and the public school which will continued service in the public schools result in harmonious and well-balanced of the state. They compose an army progress. without banners or weapons of war, but an army essential to the preservation of the institutions upon which rest the wel­ GREETINGS FROM THE NORMAL fare, intelligence and happiness of the SCHOOLS OF MINNESOTA. people. By Ell Torrance, President of the Time has demonstrated the value of Normal School Board. the work of these teachers and every A soldier undergoing an examination nook and corner of the state testifies to for promotion was asked to define the beneficial results of their labors, so strategy, and replied, "To keep on firing I represent on this occasion a worthy in the presence of the enemy after you constituency and speak in behalf of in­ are out of ammunition." stitutions of learning that have achieved On this occasion and in the presence of well earned renown in the educational friends I can assure you that it is no development of Minnesota. The normal easy task to continue the flow of soul schools through their graduates reach after all the good things that have been the homes and firesides of the people and awaken in the minds of the youth said here today. In the beginning the Normal School worthy ambitions based upon a sane de­ became a part of the ~qU(;:ational system mocracy, thus stimulating the intellectual MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 35 life and furnishing the incentive to a Minnesota will become the educational higher education. mecca of America. President Vincent, in behalf of these schools, I bring you a message of good GREETINGS FROM THE COL­ will. All those entrusted with their man­ LEGES OF THE STATE. agement are your friends, your co­ laborers. They are proud of the Uni­ By John N. Kildahl, President St. Olaf versity of Minnesota and rejoice in its College. splendid achievements. It is the ac­ Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: knowledged head and the crowning glory The colleges of the state, for whom I of the educational system of this state. speak, have two things in common. They It has no rival. Envy, jealousy, preju­ are small colleges, and they are Chris­ dice and all things else that obstruct and tian schools. make progress difficult lie buried in a These colleges represent the oldest common grave. type of higher education in this country. The period of tribal dissension has From the very start the churches in our passed and every educational force of land recognized the value and necessity this great state is now ready to be used of higher education; and besides building for what it can do-not for what it may houses of worship they also founded in­ oppose. From an educational point of stitutions of learning. view the state has gone progressive and, Also in Minnesota the Christian Mr. President, your official acts and pub­ churches have built a number of colleges lic utterances since coming among us that, as far as undergraduate work is clearly indicate that you are possessed concerned, are trying to do the same with twentieth century ideals and that work as the State University; not be­ your earnest purpose is to promote the cause they are opposed to the State welfare of the entire educational system University, but for other reasons. There of the state rather than the selfish in­ are some who for undergraduate work terest of any part thereof. prefer a small college to a big university. All those for whom I speak today And there are some who want their wish me to testify to the affectionate re­ children educated at a school where, be­ gard in which they hold your predeces­ sides getting the ordinary college branch­ sors in the great office to which you have es, they also receive in truction in the been chosen. I cannot transfer to you Word of God. the affection and veneration in which It is the duty of the state to care for Presidents Folwell and Northrop are the education of its young people; but held by the people of Minnesota. You secular education alone does not insure are far too young for veneration and good citizen hip. What we need in the you well know that the best things in way of leaders are educated men and this life are non-transferable, but the women of Chri tian principles and mora) honor and respect in which your prede­ character. And it is the privilege of the cessors are held is a safe guarantee that Christian people to erect and maintain your hands will be upheld in the great such educational institutions as they task committed to your care and that think will best answer thi purpose. under your wi e administration the in­ The colleges of Minnesota have re­ fluence of this beloved institution will joiced in the fact that during the admin­ widen, its work will broaden and its i tration of its former president the Uni­ fame increase until the University of versity of Minnesota, which has grown 36 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. to be one of the great universities of the The state universities of the United country and of which we are all justly States are profoundly interested in this proud, has not ignored the small colleges delightful occasion. In their name I nor tried to make their path hard to bring most cordial greetings to the Uni­ travel. But the relation between tbem versity and to Dr. Vincent, the new presi­ and the University has been one of dent. It adds both to the charm and friendship and co-operation. It is pos­ delight of the hour that the distinguished sible for a great and powerful state uni­ and much beloved predecessor, Dr. Cyrus versity, if it does not respect the rights Northrop, is here to grace this occasion. of the weaker, to make it difficult for a His enthusiastic and intelligent leader­ small college to exist. ship has brought nation-wide attention I also wish to say on this occasion that to the University of Minnesota. It is it has been a source of great joy to the pleasing to note that he, a loyal son of Christian colleges of Minnesota to know Yale with the wide'ned horizon of a that the spirit which has been the domi­ prairie vision, is today to be succeeded nating power at the University has not by a not less loyal alumnus of Yale to been antagonistic to that which is their whom the vision of possibilities in the special aim. But as far as it could be Great Northwest is already an inspiring done at a state institution the adminis­ reality. I congratulate you, Mr. Presi­ tration has worked hand in hand with dent, upon this happy succession and as­ the Christian colleges toward the same sure you that the indications of further end. It is in the power of a big and developments in the University of Min­ strong state university, if it mistakes its nesota are a matter of universal interest. mission, to make the work of a small The Northwest has been from the be­ Christian college very difficult. ginning the fruitful field of the state uni­ According to all that we have heard versity idea. Beginning with Michigan, and seen of the new president we con­ Wisconsin and Minnesota have com­ gratulate ourselves on having every pleted a group of universities in which reason to believe that he will assume the economic value of the university to the same friendly, liberal, just and only the state has been amply demonstrated right attitude to the colleges of the state. in the superior character of the citizen­ Mr. President, I have the high honor ship of this region, as well as in the pub­ of bringing greetings and congratulations lic services rendered by the university to from the colleges of the state. We wish the state. In the Central West the Uni­ you God's richest blessing in your great, versity of Illinois, built originally upon important and difficult work. the industrial idea, has developed into the most typical institution in that great region, and has rivalled all others in GREETINGS FROM THE STATE public service. UNIVERSITIES. Throughout the South and the West the state university is rapidly developing By President W. O. Thompson, Presi­ as the prevailing type chiefly for two dent of the National Association reasons-first, its close affiliation with of State Universities. the public schools; and second, its em­ Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, Members phasis upon public responsibility in the of the Board of Trustees, the Faculty, matter of education. The state universi­ Visiting Delegates and Friends of the ties and the Northwest in particular have University of Minnesota: led the country in the emphasis upon the Member.> of the Department of Economics and Political Science

E. T Lies ). H. Gray J. S. Young C. H PresIon R. V. Phelan E. V Robinson C. D. Allin W . A. Schaper T . W . Mitchell J. F. Ebersole W . W . Folwell c. W . Thompson William Reynolds Vance Dean of the College of Law MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 37

theory that public institutions are for has established with us a bond of com­ public service and not to be regarded as radeship when he has commended en­ philanthropies or charities. The right to thusiasm on the athletic field; but he an opportunity for education has been has struck a deeper note when he has the basis upon which the duty of the spoken of those more significant things state has been expounded. that go to make up loyalty to the uni­ It is into this broad field of public versity. It is this broader c<;mception of service in which leadership of higher Minnesota spirit that we today pledge education is cordially recognized that you ourselves to uphold; the sense of a com­ enter today. The state universities con­ mon interest which is more than mere gratulate you, Mr. President, upon the support of the teams and the enthusiasm splendid prospect before you. They con­ of the moment, but which, including gratulate the state of Minnesota upon these, goes far beyond and embraces having chosen a man so well endowed community of purpose and unity of ac­ and equipped, physically, intellectually tion in all that is for the good of Minne­ and educationally to be the leader in the sota, the cherishing of her traditions, the new order of things. safeguarding of her standards, the up­ In their behalf may I offer the prayer holding of her ideals -the ideals that that you may have a long and happy ad­ mean sportsmanship on the athletic field, ministration of the great trust reposed earnest scholarship in the class room, in you and that the sons and daughters true standards of character and manhood of Minnesota of the coming generation in student life. shall give you that generous support to It is with this conception of Iinnesota which your character and the University spirit in mind, President Vincent, that are entitled. the students extend to you today a cor­ dial and hearty welcome as the Captain GREETINGS FROM THE of that great team which is working to­ STUDENTS. gether for the good of the Univer ity, working toward the great goal of service By Stanley Gillam, '12. to the state and our country. I think I may say that none have looked forward to this inaugural day with greater interest than have the stu­ GREETINGS FROM THE ALUl\I 1. dents of the University. The leadership By Reverend John Walker Powell, 93. that has guided our Alma Mater in the years that have gone by has taught us Mr. President: loyalty and inspired us with love. The In the name of nearly eight thousand memory of that leadership we shall al­ men and women, graduates of the Uni­ ways cherish and carry with us as we versity of 1-.Iinnesota in all departments go out into life. and scattered throughout the world, I The lesson of love and loyalty that bring you cordial greeting. Our hearts we have learned we trust may give a are warm today with memories of Alma larger significance to our greeting today. Mater. The man who has guided her de - We could wish no better future for our tinies during the pa t quarter of a cen­ Alma Mater than that its growth should tury holds a place in our affection pe­ find expression in the furtherance of culiarly his own. Few men have been those ideals which President Vincent has so honored and loved, and his bishopric already so eloquently held before us. He no man can take. 38 MINNESOTA. ALUMNI WEEKLY.

But the University is greater than any much wisdom and strength may be given man. Faculties and students come and you from the Great God; that rich bless­ go, but the institution abides, and its ing and joy may attend you, and your work is forever unfinished. We welcome years be crowned with the largest meas­ you this day as one upon whom destiny ure of usefulness and success. has devolved the burden which the pass­ ing years have compelled others to re­ GREETINGS FROM THE FACUL­ linqui h. We come to greet you as a TIES. man in whom we hope to find each a By \Villiam Watts Folwell, Professor personal friend; as a leader proven and Emeritus. tried, who, we doubt not, will win fresh The duty here imposed on me I find laurels in this field, and bring the in­ exceedingly grateful. It is no slight stitution we love to a yet higher degree distinction to be selected as spokesman of efficiency and power. of the University faculties on so happy We come above all, Mr. President, to an occasion. As I have belonged to the renew our pledge of devotion to the duty oldest of them for more than two score which is laid upon us alL The Uni­ years, I ought to know their point of versity represents the ideals and ' earnest view, temper and disposition. And, hopes of the people of a great state. knowing these, it gives me keen pleasure Upon it rests the responsibility, not to be able to assure you that our wel­ merely of affording an opportunity for come is unanimous and unreserved. higher culture to the few hundreds who From the moment of your election there annually seek its halls, but of setting the has been absolute satisfaction, and un­ standards of our public education; of broken felicitations have followed your broadening the life of every member of acceptance. the commonwealth; of increasing the in­ You will find us, I believe, a comfort­ telligence and purifying the ideals of able body to get on with. We have long every citizen; of providing leadership in practiced the American way of frank dis­ the solution of the great problems of cussion of measures in their deliberative public life in state and nation. In such stage, and then cordial acquiescence in a task all must unite. Faculty and stu­ the policy agreed on. dents must bear their part. You find peace in all our borders. Nevertheless upon you, sir, rests the While we have the interests of our sev­ burden of leadership. Every year adds eral departments at heart, and expect to the greatness of your problem, while to cherish them, we still work willingly it adds no less to the resources at your together for the welfare and advance­ command. As alumni of the University . ment of the whole University. We glory and as citizens of the commonwealth we in the splendid developments in all the pledge you our loyal and hearty sup­ colleges, which have signalized the ad­ port. Our hearts are true to our Alma ministration of your honored predeces­ Mater, and to you, its chosen head. It sor. As we have been under him ac­ is our desire so to co-operate with you customed to co-operation, so we are ac­ and with the splendid body of men about customed to loyalty,-whole-hearted you that the whole body "fitly joined loyalty, without affectation and without together and compacted by that which servility. every joint supplieth," may grow into an Such being our attitude, may I not holy temple of righteousness and truth. now presume to voice a hope shared, I We pray that as you face the future believe, by everyone of us? There was MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 39 a time (and some of the veterans present PRESE T A TION OF PRESIDENT can remember it), when the president of VINCE T. an American college was little more than By President Emeritus orthrop. a mere pri1~Uts inter pares. He had his Dr. George E. Vincent having been share of teaching, and took his turn in elected by the Board of Regents presi­ the chapel devotions. dent of the University of Minnesota, i True, he sat at the head of the faculty now about to be inducted formally into table, and played a stately role on com­ the office which I held for nearly twenty­ mencement day; but it was well-under­ seven years, and I cannot adequately ex­ stood that he would take no serious ac­ press the satisfaction which I feel in the tion except a~ moved by a resolution of fact that Dr. Vincent ha ucceeded me, the faculty, duly proposed, seconded and and that my successor i Dr. Vincent. voted. If he conceived a way for better­ It does not often happen that the se­ ing the work of a department, he con­ lection of a new president of a univer­ veyed his idea by some ingenious, im­ sity by the governing board is recei,ved personal and abstract sugge tion. Super­ with unanimous expre ions of approval. vision in those days, was inconceivable. But it has happened in thi in tance. That old time has passed; and the old From the officers and students and way mu t pa . I have no words but alumni and friends of the University, those of blessing for the merican small from the legi lature and the people of college, and I wear the decoration of Minnesota, from the in titutions of one of them today; but the modern uni­ higher learning in all parts of our coun­ versity ha burst on the country with try, from educational worker in all meteoric suddenness and has come to grade of school and from the pre stay. It i a vast and multifarious organ­ everywhere, there ha come a full-voiced ism, with a personnel and a budget equal chorus of satisfaction without a ingle to tho e of a considerable city. Like a di cordant note-an almo t unprecedent­ great indu trial concern this University ed exhibition of a unanimous public opin­ needs a general manager, with ample ion that Dr. incent is the man for this discretionary power, whose supreme place and that the Univer ity of Minne­ duty is the selection of men and the ju­ sota i the place for him. Dr. Vincent dicious supervision, personal or other­ pos es es a greater number and variety wise, of their work. of qualities e sential or u eful in the We, teachers, busied in our several presidential office than are often united specialties, have no time for the adminis­ in one man. tration of such an establi hment, and few Under these condition of rare fitne of us have any taste for it. \Ve mu t and of univer al welcome, he enter upon devolve, and we gladly devolve that high hi dutie under the mo t favorable au - function on one whose gifts, education, pices. It does not require the vi ion of and experience, fit him for admini tra­ a seer to anticipate today the re ult of tion. his administration in the coming years. Such then is our greeting Praeses I cannot for a moment doubt that the e Reverende " give to us your leadership, results wiII be grand' that hi adminis­ initiative, inspiration, coun el and sup­ tration will be both wi e and brilliant; port, and we wiII give to you, to the Uni­ and that, heartily u tained as I know versity, and to the state of Minnesota,­ he will be by the loyalty of hi official the best there i in us. associate he wiII elevate the standard 40 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. of scholarship, enlarge the field of the general character of our work, in the University'S influence, and bind more scope of our activities and in the service closely than ever before to the University rendered to the commonwealth. If we the good will of the people of the state. lag behind some of the older institutions And now, Dr. Vincent, I congratulate in the higher pursuits of learning, it you most heartily on the good fortune should cause no surprise, nor justify which has brought you to Minnesota and criticism. An institution, like an indi­ I congratulate Minnesota on her good vidual, has its period of rapid physical fortune in inducing you to come here. growth, a later intellectual development, In the name of all the people of Minne­ followed by the balanced maturity of sota I welcome you to the presidency riper years. I believe that we have about t)f the University of Minnesota. completed our period of rapid physical And for myself, I wish to give you a growth. Our institution is, however, welcome that shall not have the slightest still young; it has the weaknesses, but semblance of a mere official act, the per­ it also has the promise, of maturing functory discharge of a duty, but that youth. Thanks to the scholarship, the shall be full-hearted as befits the greeting zeal and wise guidance of your predeces­ to a friend whom I honor and love, and sors in office, Mr. President, we are well in whose future triumphs and honors I advanced toward intellectual maturity shall rejoice; and I cannot better express notwithstanding our youth. this welcome than by giving you, as I A state university is primarily an in­ now do in the presence of these as­ strumentality of the commonwealth for sembled witnesses, a most hearty right the service of the people. It must, if it hand of fellowship-and may God bless perform its functions well, respond to you and prosper you in all your work, the requirements and aspirations of the and make you a blessing to the people people for the time being. It must lead of Minnesota whom you have come here in aspiration to higher ideals of moral to serve. and of civic duty, but in the scope of its activities it must follow, and reflect the public opinion of the people of the state FORMAL I DUCTIO INTO as expressed by its legislation. Frontier OFFICE. conditions are no longer predominant By John Lind, President of the Board of in our state. The passing of the years­ Regents. the new generation to the manor born Fifty years ago the popUlation of Min­ and the phenomenal economic develop­ neapolis was less than the present an­ ment, have prepared the people, as well nual registration of this institution. The as our institution, for a broader life. The growth of our state during the half cen­ formative period of the state is drawing tury of its existence has been phenome­ to a close. We have reached a condi­ nal. In any comparison with our sister tion of material and civic development, states in respect of progress and the gen­ not imported, but our OW11. We have eral well being of the people, we take evolved a state pride and a state con­ high rank. The University of Minne­ sciousness. The great majority of our sota has kept pace with the progress of people are Minnesotans, born on her the state. In any comparison with insti­ soil, and reared under the influence of tutions of like character in our sister her institutions. The future of the State states I believe that we make a most and of the University is now in their creditable showing in enrollment, in the keeping. If I judge this new born state Just Before the Academic Procession Started Mainly Faculty Members -.... o 0- :l o o....

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consciousness aright, it voices a demand human tide. It is wise, therefore, to for social justice, moral and economic look beneath the formal and the person­ efficiency, and a determination to create, al; to ask what this occasion really means to produce. This latter was reRected in or what it ought to mean. the last legislature which for the first Of one thing there can be no doubt. time in the history of the state gave the This day sees the passing of a personal University a specific appropriation for leader hip, although happily not the research work. waning of that personal inRuence. ot The Board of Regents, Mr. Vincent, all mortals are destined to be engulfed after mature deliberation, selected you in the namele s millions of mankind. A to guide and to give expression, in con­ few outstanding men cannot be forgot­ crete form through this great institution, ten. "An institution," said Emerson, "is to the aspirations of this consciousness. but the lengthening shadow of one man." Vve have called you to no easy berth, Minnesota, in this sense, will be the but the opportunity which your position lengthening shadow of Cyrus Northrop. will afford, to serve the State and to Such unity as the University has found serve your fellows, is greater than falls is due almost wholly to the fusing power to the lot of most men. In the great of his winnina and guiding per onality. work which you have entered upon I The University stands· a living tribute as ure you of the earnest, hearty co­ to the quick sympathy, humorou toler­ operation of the Board of Regents. ance, harmonizing tact, alert intelligence Under the law you are the executive and moral earnestness of its President head of the institution and I assure you Emeritus. He had to convince an often that in the performance of your execu­ skeptical outside public; he had to mod­ tive duties you will never be hampered erate and adjust keen rivalries within by any action of the Board of Regents. the In titution. College and departments In determining the general scope and sought their own ends with only a faint character of the activities of the in titu­ glimpse of the University as a whole. tion the Board of Regents, as the direct As he lays down the burden of twenty­ representative of the state, will meet you seven years he leaves the institution firm­ in council with no other motive than to ly grounded in the aood will of the peo­ so guide the development and progress ple, and unified by the loyalty of faculty, of the University that it may render the alumni and students. VVe should sadly highest possible service to humanity and miss the meaning of this day did we fail to the state. to turn our grateful thoughts toward By direction of the Board of Regents Cyrus Northrop and to wish him many I now formally invest you with the years of serenity and happines. Unlike powers and duties incident to the office Macbeth, he has of President of the University of Minne­ " .. that which should accompany old sota, and as its executive head. age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends." INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Today the University sets its face to­ The ceremonies of this hour mark not ward a new regime. No man can take so much the coming of a man as the be­ the unique place of it second president. ginning of a new phase in the life of The burden must rest on many men and the university. In the sweep of time women, who, as comrade, take up the most men are merged in the on-going task. The gains of the personal ascend- 42 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

ency that has passed must be capitalized. that our institutions are not logical. This Co-operation, organization, team-play, philosophy would almost reduce the Uni­ ·are keynotes for the coming years. An versity to a machine for turning out per­ institutional period is at hand. Loyalty sons equipped at public expense for get­ must look to purposes rather than to a ting a living out of the citizens who had person. Leadership will consist in car­ been already taxed to train their exploit­ rying out policies which many have ers. On this basis it is hard to see why helped to formulate. Regents, faculties, the State should give privileges to a few alumni, students,-all citizens, must see at the expense of their fellows. Even the institution more vividly as a noble the "antidote against ignorance" philoso­ trust to be administered for the common phy leaves the imagination cold. This good. This spirit of co-operation can be is only a sublhnated form of the police­ aroused only by a compelling vision of man theory. Obviously we need some the University seen as an organ of the other conception of the State if we are higher life of the Commonwealth. And to escape cynicism about both our social this ideal must get its setting in some system and our public higher education. inspiring philosophy of the State. But we cannot admit that Mr. Wells Mr. H. G. Wells tells us that we, as a and Mr. Bryce have quite made out their nation, suffer from "State blindness." case. There are signs of change in the "The typical American," he says, "has feeling of Amerioans toward the State. no 'sense of the State.' I do not mean Especially in the middle and the far that he is not passionately and vigorous­ West do we note a keener recognition ly patriotic. But I mean that he has no of collective interests and purposes. conception that his business activities, There is a quickened feeling of team­ his private employments, are constitu­ play, a clearer "sense of the state," which ents in a large collective process; that is thought of not in a merely political they affect other people and the world way, but is looked at as a social life with forever, and cannot, as he imagines, be­ common aims. The people of a state gin and end with him." have learned to work together to protect Even our friendly critic, the British natural resources, to foster agriculture, Ambassador, takes much the same view. to safe-guard public health, to regulate "The State," declares Mr. Bryce, "is not industry and commerce, to improve the to them (Americans), as to Germans or highways, to care for the defective and Frenchmen, and even to some English dependent, to promote education. They thinkers, an ideal moral power, charged have done these things sometimes with the duty of forming the characters through the machinery of government, and guiding the lives of its subjects. It sometimes through unofficial groups. All is more like a commercial company, or, this community activity has inevitably perhaps a huge municipality created for changed the picture of the state in the the management of certain business in minds of its citizens. The Common­ which all who reside within its bounds wealth emerges as something far nobler are interested. . . ." This individualis­ than a stock company run for the profit tic, "stock company" theory of the Com­ of its shareholders. It does become "an monwealth is neither ennobling in itself ideal moral power," a larger life in which nor does it afford a sound basis for a men and women realize more fully their state-supported university. We may best selves, and to which they give some­ paraphrase Mr. Joseph Chamberlin on thing that will endure for all time. The the British Constitution and thank God state is coming to stand for a common MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 43 life which seeks to gain ever higher lev­ periment; orchards and gardens in which els of efficiency, justice, happiness and the wonders of Burbank were anticipat­ solidarity. ed; parks for studying beasts and birds; In a picture like this the State Uni­ kitchens for making predigested foods versity finds both setting and sanction. and health-giving drinks; operating It becomes an instrument of the general rooms in which animal vivisection threw purpose, a training place of social serv­ light on human diseases; dispensaries for ants, a counsellor of the Common­ medicine; laboratories for physical ex­ wealth, a source of knowledge and ideal- periments; shops where flying machines 1sm. It is this vision which must fas­ and submarines were made; collections cinate and control the men and women of minerals; sound houses, mathematical who are today taking up anew the re­ laboratories, and even a "house of the de­ sponsibility for this institution. Arnold ceit of the senses" in which wonders Toynbee once said: "Enthusiasm can were first wrought and then explained only be aroused by two things, first, an to a bewildered public. ideal which takes the imagination by But more important than the equip­ storm, and second, a definite, intelligible ment was the staff. The "College of the plan for carrying this ideal out into prac­ Seven Days \iVorks" was dedicated to tice." Here is the whole philosophy of research. Twelve "merchants of light" uccessful effort. Many an ideal comes to traveled the world over in search of naught because it lacks the right means books, apparatns, and all the latest dis­ of expression. Many a well-laid plan coveries. Three men collated these ma­ misses the emotional energy aroused by terials. Three others verified all report­ a vision. Emerson's Oxford don whose ed experiments. Still another three philosophy read: "Nothing new, noth­ known as "pioneers' or "miners" un­ ing true, and no matter" was not of dertook new investigations, the results those who bring things to pass. We do of which were passed on to three com­ well today to catch a glimpse if we can pilors. All discoveries that had practical of the University that ought to be, with utility were applied to daily life by "dow­ the hope that it may "take our imagina­ ry men" or "benefactors." Not yet con­ tions by storm" and urge us to devise tent, the colleae pushed its researd1es "definite and intelligible" plans for ac­ further. Three' lamps" as they were tion. happily called-"search-lights would be Francis Bacon had a dream to which the word today"-projected still more we turn for a moment. In his "New penetrating inquiries which were carried Atlantis" he pictured an ideal Common­ out by expert "inoculators." The last wealth organized about a Solomon's step was taken by the 'interpreters of House or "College of the Seven Days nature," who sought to translate into \i\To rks." This college "sought t!1e knowl­ terms of human happine s and destiny edge of causes and secret motions of all the knowledge that their colleagues things, the enlargement of the boulJ(\s had di covered. Moreover, the " College of human empire to the effecting of all of the Seven Days Works' did not rest thinCTs possible." The equipment of the content with finding truth. It put this College was complete. There were at the service of all citizens. Were it caves and mines for the study of metals, not for its quaint form this passage minerals and cements; towers for celes­ might have been taken from the an­ tial observations; lakes for the breeding nouncements of one of our 0\" n univer­ of fi sh; animal houses for biological ex. sities: 4A MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

"Lastly we have circuits or visits of certed effort, makes the State University divers cities of the kingdom; where, as a means of social efficiency and progress. it cometh to pass, we do publish such The older individualistic theory no long­ new, profitable inventions as we think er satisfies even those who put their faith good, and do also declare natural divina­ in private initiative and responsibility. tions of diseases, plagues, swarms of The University aims first of all to serve hurtful creatures, scarcity, tempests, the Commonwealth through individuals. earthquakes, great inundations, comets, not to offer personal privilege at State temperature of the air, and divers other expense. Alma Mater is of a Spartan things; and we give counsel thereupon, type, and trains her sons and daughters what the people shall do for the preven­ for work and for life. She must teach tion and remedy of them." the robust gospel that "It is the one base Thus, early in the 17th century, we thing to receive and not to give." She have a foreshadowing of the essential must insist that "Life is not a cup to be ideals of the modern university-equip­ drained, but a measure to be filled." For ment for investigation and instruction in the old aristocratic ideal of noblesse every field of human knowledge, a staff oblige she substitutes the sentiment larg­ trained and set apart as a priesthood of esse oblige. Acceptance of public aid truth, giving themselves devotedly to may make a pauper or an ingrate or a their high calling, and finally a wide dif­ loyal servant of the state. If tax-sup­ fusion to all citizens of the knowledge, ported higher education is to be justified skill and idealism of which the U ni ver­ it must see itself and make the people sity is a center and a source. We are see it as an instrument of the common only beginning, however, to see the need life, and not an agency of privilege. for a more effective and economical or­ The first president of John Hopkins ganization of research. This dream of University was fond of saying that build­ Bacon's made more democratic, widened ings are but the shell of the University; in scope and spirit, is yet the sanie as its real life lies in its men. He was that of Huxley, who believed that uni· proud of the fact that at the very outset versities "should be places in which an eminent physicist like Rowland used a thought is free from all fetters and in kitchen as his laboratory. Only great men which all sources of knowledge and all and women can make a University great. aids to learning should be accessible to Better inspired investigators and teach­ all comers without distinction of cree(i, ers in barracks than a staff of industrious or country, riches or poverty." mediocrity in marble palaces. Best of Let us glance rapidly at the ch ie£ all, alert, well-trained, high-minded things that combine in the University scholars in serviceable buildings with ideal which we would fix in our minds adequate equipment. If, however, a today. If the phrase "glittering gener­ choice must be made, it should never alities" dampens our ardor, we may take hesitate between men and materials. courage from Emerson's spirited retort, The University which is true to its ideals when Choate applied these words to the will draw and hold an able staff by sal­ lines of the Declaration of Independence. aries that banish petty anxiety, by free­ "Glittering generalities!" cried the Sage dom from drudgery, by opportunities for of Concord, "they are blazing ubi qui­ research and public service, and by dig­ ties I" The picture of the state as a collective nifying recognition. No institution that life, which seeks common ends by con- thinks of investigators and teachers as MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 45 employees is likely to secure any but the be treated not as subjects, but as citi­ drudges of the profession. zens of the republic of letters and sci­ "Enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism ence. Students have not always been of veracity," which Huxley deemed "a in pupilage. Frederick Barbarossa con­ greater possession than much learning" ferred such powers upon the students of is the very life of a true University. No Bologna that they not only lorded it over modern "College of the Seven Days the towns-folk, but we are told "reduced Works" can hope to keep itself alive and the latter (professors) to a position of fruitful unless some of its members are hU{I1ble deference to the very body they ceaselessly elJgaged upon the unsolved were called upon to instruct." To ad­ problems. No ingenious machinery of mit students to academic citizenship, scholarship, no mere pedantry which, as however, is not to surrender to them a wit has said, "never takes a step with­ control of the University. It is simply out leaving a foot-note," can take the to emphasize their share in the commun­ place of the genuine passion for new ity life; to fix upon them responsibility truth. The ideal University will not and to afford that training in corporate deceive itself or others by any perfunc­ self-control,-the selection of leaders, the tory simulation of research. It will seek creation of standardS, the conformity to men who have the dauntless "fanaticism these-which is the very essence of de­ of veracity." mocracy. The University must hark "The teaching at the ideal Univer­ back to the mediaeval ideal of a '·Uni­ sity," declares Birrell, "is without versitas magistrorum et studentium"-a equivocation and without compromise. corporation of teachers and scholars. Its notes are zeal, accuracy, fullness and Th~ Alumni, too, must feel themselves authority." It is hard to keep the func­ a part of this corporation. They do not, tions of teaching and investigation in as at the English Universities, legally equal honor. Where research is exalted control, but actually they have great instruction is too often lightly esteemed. power and responsibility. They will not The "mere teacher" as the patronizing be mere praisers of the past, and resent phrase runs, suffers in rank and salary change because the memories of their and social status. In the University of undergraduate days have been embalmed our dreams the noble calling of impart­ in sentiment. On the contrary they will ing truth, stimulating reflection and often take the initiative in new move­ kindling enthusiasm will be held in high ments. They will report impressions repute. But the two types will not be gathered as they mingle with the people too sharply contrasted, for he who teach­ of the state; they will feel not only free, es "with zeal, accuracy, fullness and au­ but in duty bound to make suggestions; thority" must refresh himself constantly they will make it a point to know what at the sources of knowledge, while no the Univer ity is aiming at, and will help man who pushes forwar-d the frontiers to interpret the institution to the state. of science can fail to impart with zest The Alumni will frequent the only lob­ to at least a small group of followers bies that the University can afford to the new truth that he has discovered. enter, the daily converse of citizens and The two types must hold each other in the agencies of pUblicity. And all this respect and honor, and both must be the Alumni can do effectively only held up for admiration by their col­ through an organization which will co­ leagues. operate heartily with the other members In an ideal University students should of the University community. 46 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

If a people is not to perish mentally sphere of higher education as it makes and spiritually it must be steadily re­ its way into every corner of the state, freshed by streams of thought and ideal­ frankly creating new needs and resource­ ism. Of these the University stri.ves to fully meeting the consequent demands. be a perennial source. Unless gradua­ To find exceptional men and women, tion is a mockery hundreds of men and to train them for service, to fit them for women go forth each year to diffuse leadership, to fill them with zeal for truth throughout the Commonwealth the ideas and justice, is the one great aim of the and attitude toward life which they University. "The mind which keeps the gained from their college training. The mass in motion," said Godkin, "would value of all this must be as real as it is most probably, if we could lay bare the intangible. Mathew Arnold has de­ secret of national vigor, be found in the scribed the effect of such diffusion of possession of a very small proportion of ideas in speaking of "this knowledge the people, though not in any class in turning a stream of fresh and free particular, neither among the rich nor thought upon our stock notions and hab­ the poor, the learned nor the simple, cap­ its, which we now follow staunchly but italists nor laborers...... " Society mechanically, vainly imagining that there must see to it that this vivifying mind is a virtue in following them staunchly comes to its own. Aristocracy draws its which makes up for the mischief of fol­ leadership from a caste; democracy from lowing them mechanically." If a state every group of the people. The state is to be flexible and escape the bonds of University should be accessible to all habit and custom it must be constantly who give unusual promise whether they revivified. In this service the University have private means or not. Cecil Rhodes must play a leading part. left a fortune to make Ox£()rd for all The University Campus must be as time a Mecca for successive scores of wide as the boundaries of the Common­ American youth. Surely, large-minded wealth. The term University Extension men of wealth, local communities, some comes to us from the aristocratic cen­ time, p~rhaps the state itself, will en­ ters of Cambridge and Oxford. There dow scholarships which will draw to our is about it a faint suggestion of the mis­ Universities exceptional young men and sionary spirit-just a hint of patronage women from every county of the Com­ and condescension. Of this spirit there monwealth. This would be a statesman­ must be no trace in a State University. like, far-seeing thing to do. The experi­ Where truth is to be discovered or ap­ ence of Scotland and England for three plied, wherever earnest citizens need or­ centuries has its lesson. The hartly ganized knowledge and tested skill, there North has contributed to the United the University is on its own ground. Kingdom men well beyond its per capita Our ideas of time and space are chang­ quota. This outstripping of England is ing rapidly; traditional prejudices are to be credited largely to the democratic disappearing. The University sees as education of Scotland in contrast with its members not only the students who the caste system of England. Huxley resort to the chief center, but the other in an address at Aberdeen, thus pictures thousands on farms, in factories, in of­ the two types: After speaking in tol­ fices, in shops, in schoolrooms, and in erant vein of "The host of pleasant, man­ homes who look to it for guidance and ly, well-bred young gentlemen who do a encouragement. It is fascinating to pic­ little learning and much boating by Cam ture the possibilities of this widening and Isis," he goes on to say, "when I 47 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. being the "expert advisor of the state." turn from this picture to the no less real Row stirring the thought of a well or­ vision of many a brave and frugal Scotch ganized and efficiently manned center of boy spending his summer in hard manual. knowledge, skill and wisdom, holding labor that he may have the privilege of itself at the disposal of every construc­ wending his way in autumn to this Uni­ versity with a bag of oatmeal, ten pounds tive interest and activity of the commun­ ity, and ready to concentrate upon their in his pocket and his own stout heart to depend on through the northern winter; problems the sifted experience of all the world. In this responsiveness the true not bent on seeking 'the bubble reputation at the cannon's University expresses its purpose and spir­ mouth,' it. It is a bureau of information, the but determined to wring knowledge from stored memory of civilization, an alert the hard hands of penury; when I see investigator of new facts; it is a friend­ him win through all such outward ob­ ly and at the same time a disinterested stacles to positions of wide usefulness counsellor. It is pathetic to see men, and well-earned fame, I cannot but think isolated from the wisdom of the centur­ that in essence Aberdeen has departed ies and of their own times, hopefully but little from the primitive intentions of assailing the ever recurring problems of the founders of universities." The indi­ life. The waste of effort, the futility of vidual side of the picture has its appeal, duplicating errors, cry out for aid. The but its social aspect is after all more sig­ opportunities for service multiply with nificant. From the University towers the each year. 'Ve are coming to realize that searchlights must be ever sweping good farming is no longer a robbing, but country-side, village, town and city for a recompensing of the soil; that it costs the "minds which keep the mass in as much to plant bad seed as good; that motion." sometimes cows are pensioners instead Standard·s of truth, skill, taste, effi­ of producers; that bad highways are the ciency are the capitalized experience of heaviest road tax; that cheap schools society, essential to stability and prog­ are the most expen ive; that public ress. Of these standards the University health is national capital; that juvenile is one of the guardians. To these, come delinquency comes less from depravity what may, it must be true. No sympathy than from deprivation; that industrial for individuals, no pressure of influence, accidents are not lawyers' perquisites, no fear of retaliation, no desire for num­ but costs of production; that all idleness bers must weaken fidelity to standards. is not due to indolence; that social leg­ Freedom of research, freedom of teach­ islation is not an amiable avocation, but ing, high ideals of productive scholar­ an exacting profession; that municipal ship and of professional integrity, con­ government should not be so skilfully scientious and fearless apprai al of stu­ designed to prevent bad men from do­ dents' work are of vital concern to the ing harm, that it keeps honest and effi­ University and to the state it serves. cient men from doing good; that the To help to refine and raise these stand­ United States must trust less to a 'mani­ ards, to adjust them more nicely to so­ fest destiny" and more to a constructive cial needs, to fix the e values in public purpose. In these changes of theory and opinion, is a duty of the ideal Univer­ method there is need of accurate know~ sity. edge, carefully interpreted experiment In the striking phrase of President and auU10ritative advice. If the Univer­ Van Rise, the University must aim at sity is true to its mission it will put all 48 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

of its resources and its trained ex­ charge of college-bred men and women perts at the service of the community. condescension is intolerable. Since the Amid the conflicts and rivalries of High School, in the West at least, is many interests, parties, sects, sec­ • recognized as the "people's college," to tions, professions, social groups, the assign it to the role of an obedient pre­ University must never waver from the paratory school is out of the question. position of an unimpassioned, unpreju­ Nevertheless, the High School needs the diced seeker for the truth, all of it and University as a friend and counsellor. that alone. This responsibility is not The relations betwet:n the high schools to be assumed lightly. Mistakes are and the University should become closer costly in public confidence. Eternal vig­ through the association of all that are ilance is the price of prestige. The dis­ interested in the same subj ects of in­ comfiture of the expert gives joy to the struction, by periodic conferences at the average cItIzen. The ideal University University, by visits not only of college must, therefo:e, be true to the most rig­ teachers to High S c~oo l s, but of High orous laws of scientific method if the School Instructors to ccllege class-rooms, Institution is to gain and hold its place by joint committees which shall study as the "expert advisor of the state." the educational system as a whole. To By virtue of its role as a public serv­ the Normal Schools the University has ant the University is under peculiar ob­ held an anomalous relation. These in­ ligation to co-operate with all the other stitutions were founded to prepare teach­ agencies of the state, its commissions, ers for the common schools. Of late boards and institutions. These should college training has become virtually a turn naturally to the University for ex­ prerequisite for high school appoint­ pert advice and for trained functionar­ ments. The normal schools have been ies. So, too, the many private associa­ attended by growing numbers who ex­ tions, charity organization SOCIetIes, pect to go on to college. At the same play-ground associations, social settle­ time the demand for training in the ments, juvenile protective leagues, pub­ natural sciences, modern psychology, in­ lic art societies, study clubs, and other dustrial arts, home economics (just now similar groups should find the Univer­ agriculture is seeking admission), has sity ready to meet them more than half compelled the schools to widen their cur­ way. With the educational forces of ricula and strengthen their teaching the state the University should be in force. In these circumstances the idea close terms of sympathy and effective of some readjustment inevitably arises. team-play. The elelnentary schools are The University is in duty bound to con­ not to be deemed beneath the notice of fer with the normal schools and to seek higher education. On the contrary, the a wise solution for the problem. So, University should be a leader in study­ too, with the private colleges of the ing painstakingly the problems of the State, the University must be on the common schools. It cannot afford to be friendliest terms. Close relations be­ indifferent to the broad base of the edu­ tween these colleges and the professional cational pyramid. That the University schools of the Univer~ity should be es­ is vitally interested in the High Schools tablished, so that there may be no sem­ says itself. Yet this interest must not blance of compulsion as to the place of take the form of either patronage, or collegiate preparation. The true unity dictation. The days for these things of the state educational system consists have passed. With the High Schools in not in official machirlery, but in a spirit MINNESOTA ALUMNI wElilKL1'. 49 of mutual understanding, respect and (the University) essays to give will not good will among the men and women to teach you to outgabble your neighbor in whom the educational interests of the the law courts, to un:ieat him in his con­ state are entrusted. stituency or undersell him in the mar­ The spirit of co--opera.tion is more pal­ ket-place. Gentlemen, be it understood pable than another influence which once for all, those things do not require should radiate from the University. And a University education. The Common­ that is the scientific spirit. This is an wealth may safely leave these to be per­ attitude of open-mindedness toward all formed by the combination of the three truth, a determination to get all the es­ primary forces, ambition, necessity and sential facts before forming a judgment, greed." Of our own Cornell University a willingness to abandon a position when in its early years the author of "Culture it is no longer intellectually tenable; a and Anarchy" wrote: It "seems to rest tolerance for the opinions of others on a misconception of what culture truly which are to be accounted for rather is, and to be calculated to produce min­ than derided or denounced. This spirit ers, or engineers, or architects, not is free from acrimony, blind partisan­ sweetness and light." Here are perti­ ship and prejudice. In a world of eager nent questions. Can the state safely activity, of personal ambition, of keen leave to "ambition, necessity and greed" group rivalry, of clashing interests, with the training of its professional men and all the consequent bitterness and misrep­ its leaders? Has it no place for culture, resentation, it is the duty of the Univer­ for what Arnold read into Swift's phrase sity both in its methods and in its per­ "sweetness and light" ? In its eagerness sonnel to set a shining example of that for valuable knowledge and practical effi­ calm, fair-minded, tolerant spirit that ciency is the University neglecting "the seeks the truth which makes men free. things that are more excellent"? It is "The benefits the country derives from losing reverence for "things unseen" ? the University," wrote Mr. Godkin thirty Of this there is always danger. Action years ago, "consist mainly in the refining and tangible results that appeal to men and elevating influences they create, in so strongly are often at odds with re­ the taste for study and research which flection and spiritual values. The ideal they diffuse, in the social and political University must not forget that material ideals which they frame and hold up for efficiency is only a means to ends-a admiration, in the confidence in the pow­ finer type of personality, a more just and er of knowledge whIch they indirectly ennobling social order. The Univer­ spread among the people, and in the sity aims at training, not skilled exploit­ small though steady contribution which ers, but men and women who shall first they make to the reverence for 'things of all be high-minded citizens with a not seen' in which the soul of the state loyal "sense of the state," who shall ex­ may be said to lie and without which it emplify the scientific spirit, bear them­ is nothing better than a factory or an in­ selves gallantly in Iiks struggles, how surance company." There is no mention tl1emselves possessed of satisfying men­ in all this of direct utility through pro­ tal resources, and prove faithful to tile fessional training or industrial efficiency. highest standards. The editor of the Nation would, perhaps, Men and women of this sort do not have repudiated these things as Mr. Bir­ issue from a place given over wholly to rell did in an address he gave to a body utility and material interests. There of London students. "The education it must be a controlling, pervasive spirit of 50 MiNNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKL't.

service, a desire for "a harmonious ex­ vision to pass. Let us then with sober pansion for all the powers which make judgment and steady courage pledge the beauty and worth of human nature" anew Our loyalty to the ideals of the and a real appreciation of life's deep~r University, to the people of the state meaning. The University must help and to that republic of science, letters men to answer Kant's three questions, and the arts which knows no national the questions of science, of morality, and boundaries. May each of us take to of religion: What CCin I do? What heart the counsel of Goethe: ought I to do? What may I hope for?" "vVhat each day needs, that shalt thou True, the State University can have no ask; official theology and no ecclesiastical affil­ Each day will set its proper task. iations. But it may have a spirit of rev­ Give others' work just share of praise; erence for the mysteries of life; it may N()t of thine Own the merits raise. cultivate that essential religion which ex­ Beware no fellow man thou hate; alts the things of the human mind and And so in God's hands leave thy fate .• spirit over things physical and which reads back of the material world a pur­ IN A BLAZE OF GLORY. pose and a destiny. "The State," said Arnold, "is of the religion of all of its The inaugural dinner which was held citizens, without the fanaticism of any in the dining room at the department of them." Bacon's "College of the Sev­ of agriculture on the evening of Octo­ en Days vVorks" was a research insti­ ber 18th, was a most enjoyable affair. tution, but it did not forget that it was There were over eleven hundred seated concerned with only certain aspects of a at the tables and the dinner, served by vast University. "We have," said one Maas, was an old-fashioned farm of the staff, "hymns and services of laud dinner where everybody helped them­ and thanks to God for His marvelous selves. The dinner was excellent. Over works, and forms of prayer imploring eight hundred were seated in the large His aid and blessing for the illumination dining room on the main floor and three of our labors and the turning of them hundred were in the basement dining unto good and holy uses." room. At the close of the dinner those We have caught glimpses of the Uni­ in attendance went to the auditorium versity ideal. May this, as the years pass, in the main agricultural building and grow ever clearer, nobler, more inspir­ listened to a program of speeches. We in g. May it take our "imaginations by doubt if in the hi tory of education in storm" not as an evanescent emotion, but the United States, a program of a simi­ as a persistent vision. We remember lar sort has ever before been attempted Toynbee's words, "a definite intelligible and we doubt if a similar program plan for carrying that ideal out into could be carried through so success­ practice." It is to the many details of fully under any other conditions than this plan that as colleagues we are to those which prevailed at this meeting. address ourselves. May we take up this President Vincent acted as toastmas­ great task with a solemn sense of what ter and was in his happiest mood. He it means. We must not deceive our­ announced to the audience that there selves. We advance to no easy triumphs. would be fifteen speakers and that in We must cherish no millenial dreams. order to save the time and pati nce of We must have faith that good-will guid­ the audience he was going to begin the ed by wisdom will in the end bring our speech of each delegate before intro- MINNESOTA ALUMNi WEEKLY. 51 ducing him. In a humorous way he time set upon the speakers by President started out for the whole fifteen saying Vincent and said that to make sure of they didn't know why they had been winning the prize for keeping within called upon and that the call was en­ the time he had brought a stopwatch. tirely unexpected and that others were He spoke on four points that go to better fitted to speak than themselves, make up a strong university, which in­ a disclaimer which deceived no one and clude, a strong president, an able fac­ did no particular damage. At the close ulty, a loyal student body and a proper of this little speech President Vincent endowment. He referred to President announced that the purpose of it had Yincen t 's inaugural message of the been to secure right psychological con­ afternoon, of the students' return to ditions so that the speeches which the state in the way of service for the should follow could have their proper investment of the state in the students' effect. education. He then introduced President Kane President Bowman of the University of the University of Washington, who of Iowa was next introduced as the brought his greetings from the Uni­ man who had had his training with the versity of \\'"ashington. He said that Carnegie Foundation board and who the two institutions had many things in was trying to put into actual practice common and that the chief difference the theories he had imbibed-to make he had discovered was that the Minne­ use of all of the University's equipment sota people wore their "W" bottom seven days in the week, twenty-four ide up. He told how in the faculty of hours in the day, with time-clocks for the University of Washington seventy professors and stopwatches on the stu­ different colleges were represented and dents. President Bowman said that his that there were five representatives introduction reminded him of a story of from the University of Minnesota. He a little girl who said to a caller, "What, spoke particularly of the excellent must you go? What's your hurry? work being done at Washington by Isa­ Here's your hat." He said that as a bel McH. Austin, '95, as dean of women, boy he had often wondered how it was and Gilmore Dobie, Law '04, the foot­ possible for three buckets to hang in ball coach who had a record of three the same well. "an old oaken bucket spasons without a defeat. He paid his an iron-bolmd bucket and amos -cov· tribute to President Northrop and ex­ ered bucket." He made it3 applica­ pressed his confidence in the future of tion to the educational institution of the University under the leadership of Minnesota, which he said were about as President Vincent. He spoke of the un­ closely bound together as these three usually favorable auspices under which bL1ckets that used to bother him in his the administration of President Vin­ boyhood days, and, coming from the cent began and gave as his advice the state of Iowa where the institutions, warning to be careful of the endow- were not as closely related he wanted . m nt of the University and see that it to congratulate the state of :tInnne ota is conserved for the future use of the upon the unity of its educational in­ institution. stitutions. Professor Trowbridge of Princeton President Bowman was followed by University, was the next speaker. He President Gault of the University of referred hun1Orously to the limit of South Dakota who spoke of the clo e 52 MINNES01'A ALUMNI WEEKLY.

r lation between the Dakotas and Min· tional world. He referred to Chicago nesota, the relation being filial charac­ as another point of strategic advantage ter and when a Dakota man comes which the University of Chicago had back to Minnesota he feels as though made the most of, not only for itself he were coming back home. but in the interests of all other educa­ President Hutchins, of the University tional institutions. He then referred to of Michigan, was next introduced as the adYantage the University of Min­ the president of an institution which nesota had in one of the most strategic was ready to confer with every other points of the country and offered his institution upon any other subject ex­ congratulations on what had been ac­ cept athletics. President Hutchins complished and on the prospects before took a fall out of the chairman by re­ the institution under the leadership of ferring to the great danger of a college President Vincent. He warned 1\linne­ president's talking too much. He said sota, ho,vever, that in spite of her nat­ that he did not see why it was neces­ ural advantages Illinois was going to sary for President Vincent to introduce make her work to maintain her suprem­ any speaker as he was a continuous acy, saying that they proposed to do performance himself. Then in a few everything they could to make a better serious words he pointed out the sig­ institution than we have here. nificance of the occasion which he At the close of President James' termed a milestone in the history of the speech President Vincent called atten­ institution marking the close of one tion to the fact that President James long and unusually successful adminis­ had three times tried to pocket the tration, an administration which was toastmaster's watch and intimated that noted for its proud achievements, and this was characteristic of the represen­ the beginning of another administra­ tative from Illinois. tion which promises great things for In introducing the next speaker, the institution. He congratulated Pres­ President Benjamin R. Rhees of the ident Vincent and the University "\lpon University of Rochester, P:resident Vin­ the brilliant prospects before the insti­ cent told of his early acquaintance with tution. President Rhees and some of the boy­ President James, of the University of hood pranks in which the speaker was Illinois, who was next introduced, said supposed to have indulged. President that he had been told originally that Rhees called attention to the fact that he might have seven minutes in which while President Vincent had limited to make a speech and that he expected the speakers to three minutes he had to use at least half of that time in a stopped the clock set they might not eulogy on President Vincent, but, since know when their three minutes were the chairman had drawn the time limit up. He told of his boyhood experience so stringently, he had decided to omit with an engine which blew up because thc first half of his speech. He then re­ the safety valve had been monkeyed ferred to strategic points in the educa­ with and said that President Vincent tional world, telling of the advantages was running a great risk by sitting on which Columbia had in its location in the safety valve when fifteen college New York City, an advantage which it presidents were on the program to had made the most of, not only for it· speak. He offered his congratulations self but in the interests of the educa- to the University on the selection of MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 53

President Vincent whom he termed a to every voter just prior to the recent man good, large and strong, catholic in election he felt quite certain that the his ideas and sympathies, saying that result would have been different. Pres­ he had no advice to offer and only con­ ident Falconer then said that he was gratulations to give to the students on glad that in the commonwealth of let­ account of the kindly interest which ters and sciences there were no arbi­ President Vincent always took in the trary boundaries. Referring to Presi­ students, to the faculty because they dent Vincent's afternoon address Presi­ were sure to have a sympathetic leader, dent Falconer said that the days of and to the regents because in President chivalry are not past. \Vherever we Vincent they had a man of large vision find a man trying to do his best, living who could be trusted. up to the highest ideals of service, Kendrick C. Babcock, '89, former serving others in ma1."ing the most of president of the University of Arizona himself, such a man represents true and now connected with the United chivalry. States department of educatiQn, was Mrs. T. G. Winter who r epresented next introduced to speak for that de­ Wellesley college, spoke for a few min­ partment. Mr. Babcock said that one utes in a very delightful way, bringing note had been missing in all of the ex­ her greetings from Wellesley college. ercises of inauguration up to that poi nt In the course of her remarks she said and that was, the obligation of the that with men as well as with women State to the Ja tion, calling attention the heart still rules the head, that she to the fact that Minnesota's large en­ had never yet found an educated wom­ dowment in lands came directly from an a materialist. In a humorous way the United States government as a she said that if the women's colleges free gift for the encouragement of edu­ could only have pl'ofessorships in a cation and that this gift carried with sense of humor they would provide the it a consequent obligation of the State one thing said to be lacking in a wom­ to the Nation. Mr. Babcock made a an's training. strong point of this and was heartily Dean Frederick S. Jones. of Yale, was cheered 'both in appreciation of what the next speaker and the whole audi­ he had said and as a former U of M ence arose and cheered him to the echo. man. A blIDch of Varsity boys led in singing President Falconer, of the University the Yale Boola. President Vincent had of Toronto, was next introduced by taken advantage of his position as President Vincent, who" in his introduc­ toastma,ster to give Dean J one a little tion, referred to the failure of Canada "rub" and Dean Jones retorted by say­ to adopt the reciprocity treaty. The ing that he refused to be put upon by whole audience arose en masse and a man who was only a freshman when cheered President Falconer to the echo, he himself was a sophomore in colleo-e. giving him an ovation which must have Dean Jones assured President Vincent demonstrated to him the friendly feel­ that he brought him the hearty greet­ ing of at least this part of the United ings from his Alma Mater. Said Dean States toward Canada. President Fal­ Jones, "Chicago is only your foster coner expressed his appl'eciation of the mother." In the course of his remarks demonstration and said that if a similar Dean Jones expressed his appreciation demonstration could have been given of the action of the regents in choosing 54 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. so many Yale men for high positions at middle of the floor, remarking, "To Minnesota, « for giving so many good think that we spent good money for Yale men good jobs." Saying that fireworks last night and this man was what President Northrop was, the Uni­ in town all the time." The audience versity is, and offered his congratula­ fairly went wild in appreciation of this tions to the University upon the secur­ retort. ing of President Vincent as a worthy P rofessor Frederick J. E. Wood­ Sllccessor of a worthy predecessor. bridge, of Columbia University was in­ President Sparks, of the State Col­ troduced by the chairman, after he had lege of Pennsylvania, demonstrated told about the stationery, printed in that his name was very appropriate. baby blue, recently adopted by the Co­ He captured the audience at first start lumbia University. The chairman ad­ by referring to P resident Vincent's vised everybody to write to Columbia on « sudden deliberation." The speech some pretext or other in order to get a was humorous from start to finish and sample of this stationery. On rising to the audience was convulsed with laugh­ speak the whole audience again arose ter ana cheer ed the speaker, so that he and cheered Professor Woodbridge to was obliged to stop and give them a the echo. Professor Woodbridge said chance to regain control of themselves, that in the old days there was said to so that his next witty sally could be be a divinity which hedged about kings heard and appreciated. He referred to but that in these latter days this divin­ President Vincent's degree of C. C., ity had ceased to hedge about kings « called from Chicago" and to the loca­ and had come to hedge about college tion of the University as in St. Popolis. presidents. In the olden days all that He said that in President Vincent the was necessary to be a college president Twin Cities had secured an addition to was to be reasonably sensible; now it their elevator system, an addition is necessary to be unreasonably omni - whose capacity for words was unlim­ cient. The way of college presidents ited. He r eferred to President Vin­ must be past finding out. Omniscience cent's way of coming before an audi­ and mystery must surround the man ence as taking advantage of them by who would be a successful college pres­ springing at them aDd getting a stran­ ident. Professor Woodbridge closed gle hold or at least a half Nelson on his address by offering the con gratula­ his audience before they knew where tions of Columbia University to Presi­ they were at. H e said that tonight dent Vincent and to the University of millions of people were joininO' in the Minnesota. Chautanqua saInte to Vincent, Vin­ President Frank L. McVey, of the centior, ViDcentissimus and shouting, University of North Dakota, was then « JJong live George the First." It is introduced and again the audience almost impossible to give any idea of sprang to its feet and cheered him the brilliance and wit of President heartily. President McVey referred Sparks' speech but it was thoroughly to the glorious and joyous occasion enjoyed by a sympathetic audience, and said that these fifteen college pres­ who appreciated the passage at arms idents who had been invited to appear between him and the chairman. Before on this occasion had been looking for­ President Sparks had fairly finished ward to this occasion as the oppor­ his speech, President Vincent was in the tunity of a lifetime to say something MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 55 noteworthy that would pass down in could offer no better advice than, history, and now that they confronted "Cheer up, trust in the Lord, and don't the real situation and found them­ find out about everything." selves limited to three minutes they The meeting closed by the audience were not happy, distinctly not happy. singing "Minnesota." He told the story of a -striker who was approached by a lady and was asked THE PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION. if he was happy and said, "Oh, no, madam, I am not 'appy, I am as un­ The President's reception was held 'appy as 'ell," saying that this was in the University Armory on the even­ the feeling of most of those who had ing of October 19th. There were in been called upon to speak on this oc­ the receiving line, with President and casion. After offering his congratula­ Mrs. Vincent, members of the Board tions from the sister state, President of Regents and the Deans and their McVey closed by quoting the last wives. The Armory was decorated verse of Kipling's "If." with autumn leaves and presented an unusually attractive appearance. The last speaker of the evening was There was a large attendance and the President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of affair was a fitting close to a success­ the University of California. Presi­ ful week. dent Vincent, in introducing President " heeler, said that his being here .was LIST OF DELEGATES. entirely unexpected and that he did not know wheth~r the result of the re­ Delegates of Learned Societies. cent vote in California on the question Societies are given in the reverse of women's suffrage had anything to order of their founding. do with his coming or not. President American Political Science As ocia­ Wheeler referred humorously to the tion-John Archibald Fairlie A. M., "timeliness of the conclusions" of the Ph. D., Professor of Political Science previous speakers. Pre ident Wheeler in the University of Illinois. said that in Minnesota he had found General Education Board-Harry the two be t specimens of ex-college Pratt Judson, A. M., LL. D., President presicients he bad ever seen and won­ of the University of Chicago. dered if the atmosphere of the state American Mathematical Society­ had anything to do with the wonder­ Edward Burr Van Vleck, A. M., Ph. ful way in which they were preserved, D., LL. D., Professor of Mathematics saying that undoubtedly a national in the University of Wisconsin. commission would 'be appointed to in­ American PsycholoO'ical Association quire into this matter and that the -Carl Emil Seashore, Ph. D., Dean of whole question might become a na­ the Graduate College, State Univer­ tional issue just as benzoate of soda sity of Iowa. had recently become. President American Academy of Political and ""heeler said that his only course in Social Science-John Henry Gray, Ph. pedagogy was the one his father gave D., Professor of Economics and Poli­ him just before he started out to teach tics in the University of Minnesota. his first school when he said. "Don't Geological Society of America­ ee everything that goes on." Turn­ Newton Horace Winchell, A. M., Ex­ ing to President Vincent he said he President. 56 MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY.

American Economic Association­ Second Vice-President. Mr. E. H. Edmund Jane James, A. M., Ph. D., Bailey, Treasurer. 'vVarren Upham, A. LL. D., President of the University of M., D. Sc., Secretary. Illinois. National Dental Association-C. V. American Historical Association­ J. Brown, D. D. S. Dana Carleton Munro, A. M., Profes­ Chautauqua Institution-Arthur sor of European History in the Uni­ Eugene Bestor, A. B. versity of Wisconsin. Delegates of Colleges and Universities. l\Iodern Language Association-J 0- Institutions are given in the reverse seph Warren Beach, Ph. D., Assistant order of their founding. Professor of English in the University Mount Royal Colleo-e-Principal of Minnesota. George William Kerby, B. A. American Society of Mechanical University of Florida-President Engineers-Paul Doty, M. E., Honor­ Albert Alexander l\Iurphree, A. M., ary Vice-President. Max E. R. Toltz, LL. D. M. E., Honorary Vice-President. Stout Institute-President Lorenzo Archaeological Institute of America Dow Harvey, A. M., Ph. D. -Benjamin Wisner Bacon, B. D., A. Duluth Normal School-President M., D. D., Litt. D., LL. D., Professor Eugene W. Bohannon, A. M. of New Testament Criticism and Exe­ University of Montana-President gesis in Yale University. Clyde Augustu Duniway, A. M., Ph. American Chemical Society-John D. Harper Long, M. S., Sc. D., Profes­ University of Chicago-Pre ident sor of Chemistry in the Medical Harry Pratt Judson, A. M., LL. D. School of Northwestern University. Martin Antoine Ryerson, LL. B. Pro­ American Library Ass'Ociation­ fessor Albion Woodbury Small, Ph. Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D., Secre­ D., LL. D. vVallace Heckman, A. B. tary and Superintendent of the State Professor John Paul G

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M . B. DAV IDSON, 1892. CALIFORNIA. 4-5·6, 1st Nat. Bank Bldg., GEORGE L . KEEFER '92, '951. Joplin. )10. Attorney and Counsellor at Law H~-H3 Currier Building, Los Angeles. Cal. A fter sixteen years practice now make a spec· MONT ANA. ialty of legal advice by mail. FRANK AR N OLD Attorney at Law. IOWA. Room 1 Thompson Block, Theo. F. Bradford. Robert ID. Johnson, Law '08 Li\'ingston. ~on tana . BRADFORD & JOHNSON A ttorneys at Law NEVADA. Woodbury Building Marshalltown. Iowa THOMAS E . KEP N ER, Lawyer, MINNESOTA. 19 Gazette Bldg., R e no. Ne\'ada. HUDSON & HUDSON an ford H. Hudson NORTH DAKOTA. Ining M. Hudson, '06, ·09I. C. S. B U CK Swlrt ounty Bank Bldg., Ben on, ilIinn. Attorney at Law GOTH FRED S. SWANSON ' 071. White & Henderson Bldg., Attorney at Law. General Practice. Jame town. N. D. ~06 Iron Exchange. Brainerd, Minn. HERMAN WINTERER, E x.'83, LAWYER JOHNSON & LENDE President 1st National Bank J. N. Johnson Yalley City. North Dakota O. A. Lende '01. '03. lIIember Supreme Court, U . General Practice Canby. Minne ota. ARTHUR B. CHURCH , ' 961. OREGON. Bank of Long Prairie Bldg ./ HARRY FELBERBAUM '041. Long Pra rle. Minn. Cou nselo r a nd Attorney a t L a w 311 Yeon Bldg. DODGE & WEBBER General Practice Portland. Oregon Fred B. Dodge, CiaI' nee A. Webber. '93I. 916 New York Life Bldg.. SOUTH DAKOT....: A :.::,.=--___ MinneapOlis, Minn. M . E . CULHANE. Brool

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For the Faculties M. B. l-oon, YV. F. Kunze, Horace Henry F. Nachtrieb, Chairman Lowry, George II. Partridge, E. J. Edmund L. Butts Pbelp , Alfred F. Pillsbury, Charles James T. Gerould . Pillsbury, Fred D. nyder, Thoma George T. James H. hevlin, "Willis Walker, Thomas F. Thomas G. Lee Wallace, J. T. Wyman. Headquarters and Bureau of Univer it.y-F. F. \I/e brook, chair­ Informa tion man; Howard S. Abbott, "W illiam R. James T. Gerould, Director Appleby, Richard Burton, Pierce But­ Sub-Committees ler, John J. Flather W. W. Folwell, Ex-Officio Members of All ub- Burn ide Fo ter, John H. Gray, hades L. Greene, Jared How, John Committees Lind, \V. J. Mayo, J. E. Moore, Cyru Pierce Butler Northrop, C. D. O'Brien ]fred Owre, Henry F. Nachtrieb James Paige, Thoma S. Roberts, Academic Costume Francis henehon, Charles Som­ Edward Van Dyke Robinson, Chair­ mers, Frederick L. \Va hburn, Albert man F. Wood, F. J. \VullinO' John Zeleny. Ada Com t.ock t. Paul-C. l\1. Griggs, chairman; John Black Johnston C. W. Ames, James D. Armstrong, \V. Decorations J. Dean, Paul Doty, John 1. H. Field, C. W. Gordon, L. W. Hill, C. L. Ada Comstock, Chairman Kluckhohn, . \V. Lindeke, Joseph Margaret J. Blair McKibben, rchibald MacLaren, John Joseph B. Pike R. Mitchell, W. D. Mitchell) L. P. Henry A. Hildebrandt Ordway, Frank J. Ottis, E. L. Patter­ Dinner and Luncheon son, E. YV. Randall, T. A. chulze, George B. Frankforter, Chairman Theodore L. Schurmeier, C. A. Sever­ Gisle Bothne ance, James H. Skinner, George T. Edward M. Freeman Slade, George Thompson, Ambrose Henry B. Hovland Tighe. Mrs. Jessie S. Ladd Expenditures Miss Elsie T. Leonard B. F. Nelson Dexter D. Mayne Henry F. Nachtrieb B. F. Nelson Invitation Cbarles F. Sidener David F. Swenson George F. J ames, Chairman Albert F. Woods .T ohn F. Downey Jame T. Gerould, Secretary Ent.ertainment Printing and Program l\linneapoli - Edward C. Gale, Joseph \Varren Beach, Chairman chairman; Jame F. Dell, Elbert L. Hardin Craig Carpent.er, Eugene J. arpent.er, Frank A. L. Underhill M. rosby, Joseph hapman, Jr., W. H. Dunwoody, William C. Edgar, Procession and rmory Arrangements James T. Elwell, L. S. Gillette, J. B. Edmund L. Butts Gilfillan, Frank M. Joyce, D. P. Jones, Loui J. Cooke MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 67

PROTEST GAJ~ST PROPOSED :\1inne ota to represent the U niver­ DIS ONTINU_ N E OF IGHT . ity of Minne ota at the semi-centen­ nial celebration of the founding of the LAW CO RSE. ' niver ity of \Va hington. The cele­ To The j\linne ota Alumni \Veekly: bration takes place in eattle on the In your Weekly of September 25th, 4th of ovember. Mr. Schwager is notice i given that the night law pre ident of the Minne ota Alumni A - course wiII be di continued at the fir t sociation of Seattle. of the year. Is not the Univer-ity for the benefit of the people and all the people of the state? The 'vVeeldy cer­ IX OF 1910 AT HAR ARD. tainly ha placed con iderable empha­ The class of 1910 i represented at si on the amount f taxes each year Harvard Univer ity thi year by ix of levied. T o me having taken two years its members who are enrolled in the of academic" rk during the day with yarious chool. Thoma Collin, Le­ the cla of 1~ OO , and two year night land Duxbury and J ame Dorsey are law \\' rk with the I a,,' cla s of 1901, in the law chool; Cyru Fi ke i in thi action i a great urpri e. I sin­ the medical school; Farrington Dan­ cerely hope that the night law work iel is tudying chemi try and Richard will not be dis ontinued. If there are X ewhall ancient hi tory, 'both in the any "ital rea:on, why it hould be, graduate chool of arts and ciences. none have yet been mentioned in your George Akerson, a member of the colnmn , anu you have many reader cia - in its fir t two year, is a semor who are interested. The niversity 111 Harvard college thi year. e,·ten, ion work " 'ould be of no benefit whatever to any per on de iring to practice law, unle a degree i given. IN\rENTI N L CCE FCL. I this contemplated action not a dis­ John O. l\Iorri , Ener. '88, has just criminal ion agailL t ambitiou per on who are unable to attend day course? "pent two \Yeek at j\Iadi on, \ is., If the night COLlr e i discontinued, I where he ere ted and put in operation . incerely tru_t that every large ci ty in a new extration cell of hi own in en­ thi tate will at once have a law tion and de ign. The results of the chool of Its own, and that the present test were very ati factory and Mr. revenue of the law college be required Morri belie es it po sible to extract to support these local school. ucces fully and in a ati factory and Very truly your financially profitable \ ay ugar from LOUIS M. 0 BOR the dried cane. The proce" requires o tober 12th, 1911. the di integration of the cane and the drying of the ame, which reduces the LUMN E T NORTH YAI 1M weierht about 70 per cent. The 30 per There is a flouri hiner branch of the cent remaining is a olid con i tiner of a sociation of collegiate alumnae in tock, pith fibre and sugar. The pith the orth Yakima valley. ix erradu­ i. separated fr0111 the fibre by sifting ate of the Univer ity of Minne ota with rotar? and shakiner creen, after are in the majority. 'Those erraduates which the pith is pre sed into large include, Mrs. Lola Hammond Bolles, blo k . 1.tx1c inche x 3 fe t, into a den­ '07; Mr . Minnie Faegre Kutnewsky, sity of about 6S to 7S pound per cubic '08; Floy Ro sman, 0_' Jennie vVeb­ foot. The fibre is pres ed into bales er ster, '99: nna M. Whitney, '06; Mrs. with a balin pre . The result i Amy K nnedy Cha, e, 'OS. nearl a den e a a pine log of like dimension and about a heavy and CI-nV.\GER APP I 'TED DELE­ carried about S5 per ent of u ar and the fibre carried about 3S per cent. GTE. The ompany has n \ a drying appar­ L wi chwag r, 5, Law '96, has atus in uba, uitabl adjusted and in been appointed by the Uni er ity of actual working condition. 68 MINNESOTA ALUMNl WEEltlS.

EW EDITION OF LAW BOOK. street, to the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association, of . Howard S. A'bbo~t, '85, has recently thi city, provided the building is re­ I ued a fourth revised edition includ­ modeled and maintained for one year ing forms of EIliott on Private Cor­ as a branch Y. M. C. A., especiaIly for porations. The text of the book has boy , with some provision for men. been revised and rewritten and cita­ $7,000 is needed to carrv these plans tion are made to the latest decisions throuO'h and a campaign has been an d, to increase the practical u eful~ tarted with a view to raising the nec­ nes of the work, there have been add­ essary funds. enator Elwell is chair­ ed over 100 of the most frequently man of the committee and J. M. An­ needed forms relatincr to the orcraniza- . f ~ b der on, ex-'88 and C. A. Barton, law tlOn 0 corporations and the transac- '00, are also members of the commit­ ti on of corporate business. WiIliam tee. The building which Mr. Way of­ Hoynes of Notre Dame, Ind., in a re­ fers to give the Y. M. C. A., cost cent letter to the publishers of the originally $30,000 and i in good condi­ ~olume, Bo?b -MerriIl Company, says: tion. The text IS accurate and luminous and characterized by a literary style WEDDINGS. urpassing that ordinarily found in law books. The notes are supplemental George L. Nason, Eng. '10, and and e~planatory to a fitting degree Catherine Lila Haeusler were married and bring the current law in the cita­ June 27th in t. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. tion of authorities down to the present. Nason will make their home at 975 St. This is not only the latest, but also the Anthony Ave., t. Paul. Mr. Nason is best one-volume treatise on the sub­ engineer for Morell & Nichols, land­ ject." scape architects of this city. 'OS-Florence DeBell is now Mrs. E. V. Youngqui t and is living at Car- PAPERS BY DOWNEY. ter, D. While doi ng graduate work in Ger­ Isabel Dunn, '06, and 'vV. L. Oswald many last year Professor Hal Downey of the department of agriculture, were of t~e department of animal biology married on Augu t 31st. Mr. and Mrs. puhlIshed two napers of unusual inter­ Oswald are living at 1268 County est. Road, St. Paul. 1. The Origin and Structure of the Dr. Olaf J. Hagen, Med .. '06, of Plasma Cells of Normal Vertebrates Moorhead, was married in June to Mo­ E pecially of the Cold-Blooded Verte~ selle Weld, daughter of President brates, and the Eosinophils of the 'vVeld of the Normal School. Lung of Amblystoma. Folia Haematologi'ca 1. Teil: Ar­ PER 0 ALS. chiv, Bd. XI, 1911. 2. Die Entstehtlng von Mastzellen '83-·1\1r. and Mrs. R. M. Bell are aus Lymphozyten und P lasmazellen. living in Minneapolis this winter. The la t one ,vas presented at the Their address i 229 5th Ave. . E. 2.5th meeting of the Anatomi che Ge- '84-BeIJe M. Bradford is living at eJlschaft and was published in the 2641 Garfield Ave., Minneapolis. Her proceedings of the society. Verhand­ former home was Farmington, Minn. lungen del' Anatomischen Gesell schaft, '84-II. H. . Rowell i editor of the 25. Versammlung, Leipzig, 1911. Evening Teller at Lewi ton, Idaho, and ecretary of the Lewiston Or­ GIVES BUILDING TO Y. M. C. A. chard Producers as ociation, al 0 the Charles M. Vvay, ex-'8S, president owner of a ten acre orchard in Lewis­ of the Minneapolis Bedding company, ton Orchards. has offered to deed the old Tuttle '91-Mr. and Mr . T heo. M. Knap­ school building, on the corner of 14th pen are now located in Vancouver, B. avenue southeast and Talmadge C. Their residence is 2836 Birch St. MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 69

THE MINNEAPOLIS MEETING with salari es, can not but be perni­ OF THE ASSOCIATIO OF cious. For such an institution the un­ bought services of men of first-class TATE UNIVERSITIES. ability are far more valuable than are The following report of the meeting the services of such men as will serve was furnished by Dean John F. Down­ for pay. As an example he cited the ey, one of the delegates from our Uni­ case of Col. Vilas, who served so ably ver ity. on the \Vi consin Board. If the time The meetings were held in the Ban­ he freely gave to the work had been quet Hall of Hotel Radisson and were charged for at the rate he received for attended by the Pre idents of most of his profe ional ervice, it would have the tate niversities and by the Pres­ amounted to from ten to twenty ident of the University of Toronto. As thou and dollars a year; but he could there wa little bu ine to tran act, not have been induced to serve on a nearly all the time was devoted to the board whose members received a al­ reading and di cussion of papers per­ ary. taining to problem of tate Univer i­ The advancement of Normal Schools ties. to Normal alleges would, he said, re­ The paper of President Van Hi e, of sult in the arne kind of expen ive the University of "Vi can in, on Cen­ over-l apping a that cited above and tral Boards of Control, wa . regarded would re ult in having central board. of a much importance that the A - \Yhile he i greatly oppo ed to makinO' sociation voted to have it printed and deo-ree-conferring colleges of the J 0:"­ di tributed to the member in advance mal chool, he approves the action of of the publication of the proceedine- . the \Vi can in legi lature in giving lIe fir t pointed out the di advan­ power to the Normal chool to ex­ tag-e of having the Univer ity the pand their curricula ufficiently to in­ rrricu ltural Colleg-e, the allege of clude the fir t t,,·o rear of the Liberal Engineering- and 1echanic Art, the rt College at the Univer it)'. _ chool of Mines, and the College of Pre ident Hill, of the Univer it" of Education or Normal College of any Mis. ouri, in hi paper on Department­ stat in separate localities of the state. al Organization, took the ground that Be ides many unnece ary and expen- the committee plan, with 2hairman or ive duplications the board of each ecretary chosen from time to time, i urge for the large t appropriations it better than the head-of-department can get, without reg-ard to the needs plan. He claimed for the plan the fol­ of others. and attempt to maintain by lowing advantage : a-operation a proper balance have not 1. ction i by the department and been llcces fll!. He thinks that in such not bv the head. tat s, while each in titution hould 'It bring out all view for di - have it own board, there should be a cu ion and re ult in choice of the com~11is ion, made up of suitable men, be t. ervIng without salary, and that thi ". Each member feel more re pon­ c mmi sian hOllld confer with the re­ ibilitv. rective board and determine what 4. 'It et fre e each one' im entive appropriations should be a. ked for genius. e:lch. Thi honld not be a Board of S. It g-i e greater harmony. ontr I in the sen e in which Minne- .6. \ Vhen there i a vacancy, it sota had and Iowa now has uch a gl\-e better opportunity to bring in a board. strong- man ",ith hig-h alarv than by In those tates in which the institu­ the other plan, which give' the hig-h tion of hig-her learning are combined alary' to the head. ~t one locali ty under o'ne board, mak­ • ome of the member aQTeed ,\'ith Ing- one central U niversi ty, the placino' President Hill: but 1110 t thong-ht that o f this U niver ity and the charitabl~ the advantages claimed hold anI\' and penal institutions und r one when a well administered department Bard o f Control, compo ed of men on the committee plan is compar-::d MINNESOTA. ALUMNI WEEKLY.

with a poorly administered department cent and expres ed the belief that still under a head profe SOl', and that a further reduction, by strengthening head can secure efficiency of the staff tho e that remain, would re ult in much better than can a temporary go d t the Uni"er it)'. chairman or ecretary. Rela tion of tate U niver i ties to Pre ident Gray, of the University of 'ollege f the tate wa the title of New NJ exico, read a valuable paper on an able pap r by Kendrick . Bab- The urriculum of the econdary c].;:, ~ pecialist in IIigher Education School. He think that the essentials in the l nited State Dureau of Educa­ are too much neO'lected for matters of tion. lIe deplore the fact that many less importance. He would separate fake, em i-fake, and inefficient colleges the course into two divi ion of two have been chartered and empowered years each, the fir t divi ion to be much to confer degree. In every state the as at present and the econd division to W01 k for a deoTee hould be tandard­ be open only to the better students, ized, and tho e college which can not some of them to be prepared for colleO'e mea ure up to the tandard hould put and other to round out an elementary them_el"e. on a two year ba i . The e education. At thi stage President and tho e that remain as degree-con­ Falconer, of the University of Toron­ ferring colleO'es should have an ar­ to, explained the curriculum in use in rangement with the State University the secondary chool of Ontario, stat­ uch that tudents, at the end of two ing that five ubject, viz., Latin, year. , could go to the Univer ity with­ Mathematics, Hi tory, Engli h and a out I s of time. Thi would result in modern foreign language are required their receiving during their fir t two of all. years more individual attention, in di­ Pre ident Bryan, of the Univer ity minished expen e to them, and in re­ of Indiana, pre ented a mo t import­ li eving the conO'estion at the niver- ant paper on Economy in Univer ity itv. Admini tration. Successful admini­ Pre ident .\Iey, f the Univer ity of tration, , aid he, require "adequate re­ Maine, pre ented a paper n Entrance sources and severe selection." A Requirements for tate Uni er itie . univer ity should select the kind of He said that as the secondary schools work it most needs to give and resi t must adapt their course to the need over-pre sure for expan ion. General of large numbers of pupils who are expansion of departments causes the not going to college, the univer ities library, salaries, supplies, etc., to uf­ 1 ould have a wide range of subjects fer and lowers the quality of the work. that may be offered [or admission. It is more important to grow strong The cour es hould be so aITanged in than to grow large. ' Regent and the econdary schools that if, at any faculties should o'b erve the following: time, a pUl il i compelled to top, his l. Resi t the tendency to increase education up to that time i the be t unduly the number of freshman and pos. lble. He doe not believe in ad­ sophomore subjects. mis. ion bv examination, as succe s de­ 2. Re ist the temptation to multi­ pends t 0 much on the memory and ply junior and senior electives. the methnd does not give sufficient 3. Resist the temptation to engage recognition to the fact the work of in too wide a range of re earch lines. f ur year is the thing that counts. 4. Re ist the temptation to mulli­ President McVey, of the University ply departments, chools and coll eges. of Torth Dakota, in discussing the Clark University, with its five de­ paper, presented a concise table, show­ partments, has shown that a univer­ ing the requirements for admission sity of limited resources may go into into the different State Universities. the front rank by concentratin g its ef­ He approves the hicago University fort. Pre ident James, of the Univer- plan, recentlv explained ill Scien e, ity of Illinois, stated that at that in­ and says, "The test f efficiency is in stitution they had recently reduced how the studen t do s his work in the the number of courses by twenty per High School." MINNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY. 71

Time did not permit of the reading MINNESOT A SCHOOL LAND SALES of the paper on Federal Aid to Educa­ ~ 1911 ... Greal OpporluD;ly 10 Secur. 80mes ti on, by Pre ident James, of the l!ni­ At the following t imes and places I w ill ver ity of Illinoi , but it will be prmt­ hold sales of school and other state lands. Monday, Nov. 6, 2 P . M ., Wadena, ed in the proceedings. Wadena Cou nty ...... 7,600 Tuesday, Nov. 7, 10 A . M ., P ark The meeting was a very intere ting Rap ids, Hubba r d Cou nty ...... 28,000 and profitable one and the volume of Wednesday, Nov. 8, 10 A . M ., B e. mldji, Beltrami C ounty ...... 7,000 pr ceedinas, which will contain the Fri day, Nov. 10, 10 A . M ., Walker, paper and di cu sion in full , will be Ca.s County ...... 40,000 Monday, Nov. 13. 10 A. M., Inter· of g reat value to pe pIe particularly national Falls, Koochlch i n g Co .... 7,000 Wednesd ay , Nov. 15, 10 A. M ., D u' intere ted in the problem of State luth, St. Loui s Cou nty ...... 36,000 l -niver itie . Th u rsday. Nov. 16, 2 P . M ., P i ne C ity, P i ne Countv ...... 3,200 Fri day, Nov. 17, 10 A. M ., A i tki n , A itki n County ...... 40,000 Monday, Nov. 20. 10 A . M., Grand MINNE OT A 21-NEBRASKA 3. Rapids, Itasca Cou nty ...... 33,000 Tuesday, Nov. 121, 10 A . M ., C rook· ston. P olk County ...... 4,000 i\ I inne ~o ta looked forward to the Wednesday, Nov. 22, 10 A . M ., Moorhead, Clay County...... 760 X ebra ka game with anything but a Thursday, Nov. 23, 1 P . M., B a.gley, ~en s e of ecurity. The records of the Clearwater Cou nty ...... 8,200 F riday. Nov. 24, 11 A. M., Ha l lock, two teams up to the present date K ittson County ...... 23,000 favored the vi itor They had a team Sat urday, Nov. 25, 10 A . M., War· reno Marshall County ...... 33,000 l [veteran and were fa t and re- Monday, Nov. 27, 2 P . M., Roseau, oure fu!. They were clean-cut, heavy Roseau County ...... 18,000 T E RMS OF SALE. melJ and they looked fit for the game These la nd will be sold at public a u c­ f th ir lives. But Minne ota has tion to the highest bidder : Fifteen p er cent of the purchase p rice must be paid come a long way durina the pa t two a t the time of ale. The balance m a y run 40 y ears at 4 per cent annual in­ '" ek and hardly a minute during the terest if desired. The title to all s tate whole hour did Iebra ka pu h the la nd is perfect. Yaluable iIlu trated boo I< On Minnesota lands fr e e : playing. The few times when Nebras­ SAMUEL G. IVERSON , State Auditor, SI. Paul, Minn ka did get the ball he, a unable to

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make distance con i tently and though Tebra ka end, the touchdown being several times a forward pass or a long made by McAlmon through the center run brought the hearts of Minnesota of the ebraska line. The game was a rooters to their mouths, such gains very interesting one to watch and le­ were usually followed by tackles for a bra. ka earned her three 'points and loss. A number of times Nebraska few Minne ota rooters grudged her 10 t on each of her three attempts. the con olation of saving herself a Minnesota started out bravely and hut-out. Thlinnesota's playing, es- three times had the ball down within pecially in tackling, improved remark­ ebraska's ten-yard line and twice ably during the second half of the within two yard of a touch-down, game. The men got after their op­ only to lose the ball on fumbles or ponent in a way to delight the grand- downs. The attack was brilliant and tands and once Power tackled a e­ the defense stubborn. Then ebra ka braska man who had made several had her innings and made a thirty-two yards and was coming like the wind, yard run which placed the ball in Min­ for a 10 s of five yards-it was a won­ nesota territory. For a few minutes derful piece of work. The line was Nebraska did some wonderful work one of the stronge t Minne ota has and made distallce on fine forward had in year, often tackling players passes and long returns of Minnesota behind the line and breaking up plays punts. Thlinnesota eemed not to be before they were fairly started. On able to get their opponents, but not defense they were just as strong and for long. 'While the first quarter was T ebra ka's attack on the Thlinne ota decidedly Minne ota' , the second Ne­ line u uaJly doubled up without mak­ braska had a shade the better, with ina' di stance. 1innesota has found Minnesota improving every minute. herself and will look forward to the When the second half ooened, Min­ remaining games of the sea on with nesota came back strong and all dur­ confidence that the team will give ing thi half Minnesota had Nebraska good account of it elf. on the run, save for a few minutes just before the close of the game, when a Minnesota. Position. Nebra ka. good return, a forward pass and a long Tobin ...... L. E...... Chaner run, placed the ball within triking Elder ...... L. T...... honka distance and a drop kick tallied the mith ...... L. G ...... Elliott three points for ebraska. 'Minnesota's Morrell ...... Horberger touchdown came on a well executed forward pass with a magnificent dodg­ Power ...... R. G...... Pear on ing run through a broken field , in Frank ...... R. T...... Harmon which the runner, Capron, dodged Wallender ...... R. E...... Lofgren three men who eemed sure to nail Capron ...... Q. B ...... Warner him. This seemed to give the Minne­ Pickering- ...... F. B...... Purdy sota men new fighting courage and Steven ...... R. H. B...... Frank nothing could stop their fierce on- Mc l1110n ..... L. H. B ..... 0. Frank laughts-through the line or off ei­ ther wing and occasionally around the Substitutes-Racely for E. Frank, end, distance came as the result of re­ E. Frank for Racely, Potter for Warn­ markably fine team work. The second er, Gibson for Purdy, Russel! for O. touch down came as a result of a for­ Frank, Id worth for Wallander, ward pass, Stevens to Pickering, when TOtlchdowns- apron, Pkkering, Mc- Ie s than five yards remained to 'be lmon. Goals from field-Pickering, made. The next three point came by (). Frank. G al from touchdowns­ the air route when a pretty place kick Morrell 3. Official : Referee-Haine by Pickering from the thirty-yard line of Yale. mpire-Whitmore of ju t pa sed over the bar. The next Drown. Field judge-Allen of Dart­ touchdown came as the result of some mouth. Head linesman-Ver Weibe of g-reat work on the ground, twice Harvard. Time of quarters-IS min­ through the line and once around the utes. '"c: c ~ c

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Designers of CampI te M chanica! Equipments of Nev University of Minnesota Buildings ' 0\ in Progress of Constru tion.

Charles L. Pillsbury Co. Engineers Minneapolis St. Paul

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in a hurry be doesn't like to find 8 button missing from his underclothes, a button hole torn in his shirt or a hole in his sox. There Never A re Any of tbese deplorable accidents if the work is done at MAIN OFFICE: UP-TOWN OFFICE: 410-12 So. 11th St. FALCONER'S LAUNDRY 509 2nd Ave. So. Besid es Doi ng the Finest Laundry Work we Keep Your Underwear, Etc., In Repair

Compliments of

White Enamel Refrigerator Company

1340 University Avenue, St. Paul, Minn.

HARRY MITCHELL MINNEAPOLIS' LEADING TAILOR Latest Fall and Winter Patterns now on Display at my Store

PRICES REASONABLE UNIVERSITY TRADE SOLICITED 312 NICOLLET AVENUE

ESTABUSHED 1878 Selden Roofing and Manufacturing Co. Manufacturers of FIRE PROOF WINDOWS AND DOORS Appro,ed and labeled by the National Board of Underwrit ers Asphalt, Pitch and Gravel ROOFING Iron, Tin, Slate and Tile Galvanized Iron and Copper Cornice, Skylights, Ventilators, Ceilings 76 Western Avenue, Cor. Eleventh Street MINNEAPOLIS, MINN_

E. G. SHAFER, President H. S. PIER E, Sec. and Treas. SHAFER-PIERCE COMPANY DENTAL DEPOT DENTAL FURNITURE, INSTRUMENTS AND SUPPLIES 608 Nicollet venue DEPOT AT ST. PAUL Minneapolis, Minn. DEPOT AT LA CROSSE Please mention the WEEKLY when writin g to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section. WHO'S YOUR STATIONER? We Would Like To Be We Do High Class PRINTING-LITHOGRAPHING-ENGRA VING AND HANDLE A SPLENDID LINE OF STATIONERY SAl T PAUL LOU I SF. DOW MINNEAPOLIS 381·383 Jackson Street Complete Balik ...,d Office Outfitters 15 Fourtb Street Soutb

"Buy" "Eat" HOME BRAND Food Products " Econoxny" "Satisfaction" GRIGGS, COOPER 6- CO. Manufacturing Wholesale Grocers Main Office, Cor. 3rd and Broadway Sts., ST. PAUL, MIN

Janney, Semple, Hill & Co. WHOLESALE HARDWARE MERCHANTS

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

Established 1856 w. B. & W. G. Jordan

Wholesale Grocers, Im­ porters, Coffee Roasters a nd Manufacturers

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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STAT E AGE T FOR I\II NNE OTA The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance CO. OF NEW RK, EW JERSEY

312-316 ANDRUS BUILDING, MI EAPOLIS, MINN.

Physicians & Surgeons Supply Company Physician's Supplies and Surgical Instruments, Electrical and Hospital Supplies, Trusses and Elastic Hosiery

N. W. Main 1033 Tri-State Center 3438

84 SOUTH SEVE TH STREET MINNEAPOLIS, MIN

K. C. Holter Publishing Company PRINTERS ESTA BLISHED 1890 T ELEPHO E:TRI·STATECEN.1080 Weare Operating Five Presses and Two Linotypes 416 Eighth Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn.

HEYWOOD MANUFACTURING CO. PAPER BOXES ENVELOPES PRINTING 420 to 428 Third Street North, Minneapolis, Minn.

Augsburg Publishing House UBLISHERS and IMPORTERS PRINTERS and BINDERS 425 -- 4 29 SOU T H F 0 U RT H S T R E E T MINNEAPOLIS , MINNESOTA A Flashlight of a small section of the Torchlight Procession - near Folwell Hall Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section.

Ab. olute S afety Safety Deposit Vaults

Your Inspection Invited The MINNESOTA LOAN and TRUST COMPANY

Fo~ Your lat Ave. So. and 4th St. Valuable. MI NNEAPOLIS, MIN ESOTA

First Mortgage Farm Loans Are the safest form of investment bearing a high rate of interest. We specialize in these mortgages for individual investors in amounts of $200 to $3000. We attend. without charge, to collection of interest, re­ newal of insurance, payment of taxes by borrowers, etc. Write us for full information and list of mortgages. Highest bank references. s. J. Murton &L Company 538 Security Bank Building, M inneapolis, Minnesota TEPHE J. M RTON WALTER H. CAMPBELL, '95, Law '96.

"Have You Joined the Co-Op?" This is one of the questions now asked many times a day. Minnesota has long tried to secure a Co-operative Book Store. and now that it is in existence it is the duty of every student and alum­ nus to become a member, boost for it and make it a succes . Memberships may be secured either by the purchase of a 2.50 fountain pen or by a membership fee of 1.00, and entitles the holder to a share of the profits of the business proportionate to the amount of his purchases. Shares of stock may al 0 he secured by alumni and students. Write for particulars. MINNESOTA CO-OPERATIVE CO. 331 14th A ve. S. E., Minneapolis Per BENJ. B. WALUNG. E. E., '09., President and Manager

ll\aiserbof trlestaurant .lima-x iemer, Wrop.

242 = 244 .0itoUd ~benue )]minneapolis

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~~NETDDLS CHARLES H.BlSlY 6(0. 118-TO-124 It CLINTON ST. CHICAGO ILliNOIS U.S.A. ~EALERC; IMPORTER~"3

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Sanford Hall Erected by J. and W. A. ELLIOTT Contractors and Engineers MINNEAPOLIS JUUL INGERSOLL COMPANY

COMMERCIAL J)boto grapber

Amateur Finishing and Enlarging 88-92 West 4th St., St. Paul Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section. NORTHERN PHOTO SUPPLY MELONE - BOVEY LUMBER CO. COMPANY I. X. L. Independent MAPLE FLOOR! G PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS 13th Ave. South and Third St. 316-318-320 Fourth Ave. So. Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis Minnesota S. KIERSKI "WE KNOW HOW" Wbotograp!)cr KAYS ER &, CO. Sixteen Years on the East Side N. W . Tel. East 542 Just Wall Paper STUDIO 822 and 824 H ennepin Avenue S. E . Cor. 5th St. and Central Ave. Minneapolis MINNEAPOLI . MI

Manu(aClurers of Vertical F;(es, Bank and Office Sectional J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. Filing Cabinets, Sectional Book Cases MIN EAPOLlS, MINNESOTA 7th and Waahington Aves. South • Twin City Fixture Exchange THE NATIONAL GAS GOVERNOR CO. L. JACOBSON, Prop. REDUCE YOUR GAS BILLS ---We Buy, Sell and Exchange --- STORE, OFFICE and BANK FIXTURES Send for Circular or Telephone A Specialty of Safes and Show Cases Always on Hand 1034 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Stocks of General Merchandise Bought and Sold Phones: N. W. Nic. 892; T. S. Center 1884 N. W . Nicollet 2888 T . S. Center 2446 509·513 Second Ave. So. Minneapolis, Minn. JOHN N. SAYER THOMAS S. LYNES Manufacturer of nnd Dealer in THE EAST SIDE FLORIST Blankets, Lap Robes, All Kinds of Harne.. Choice Cut Flowers and Floral D~corations for Funerals Weddings, Etc. Artistic Design Work a Specialty. and Horae Furnishings. N . W . East 339 - T. S. Spruce 230 Turf Good. a Specialty. Residence Phone N. W . East 1295 Orders hy Mail Promptly Attended To. Minneapolis, Minn. 20616 Cen tral A yen ue 116 South Third Street. Minneapolis, Minn. ROSE HILL NURSERY BJORKMAN BROS. Mioneapolis, MinD. are In the Heating and Plumbing --- Growers of All Kinds of --- Business. HARDY NURSERY STOCK GIVE THEM A CHANCE Both Phones Catalogue Mailed Free 712 South Tenth Street, Minneapolis, Minn . AMERICAN LINEN SUPPLY CENTRAL SUPPLY CO. Manufacturers nnd Dpaiers in Furnishers of PLUMBERS, CLEAN LINEN Branches: GAS AND STEAMFITTERS SUPPLIES Chicago, Ogden, St. Paul T. S. Center 3229 Both Phones 1905 Minneapolis, Salt Lake City N. W. Nic. 1400 312-314-316 Third Street So. Minneapolis, Minn. Lem C. Crock.ell requests the pleasure of looking after your work personally. Northwestern Scavenger Co. Both Phones 195 Vaults and Ceupools Cleaned with Odorte .. @et~~~(§j~ Pumps. Manure and Rubbish Removed. All Orders A ttended to Promptly. Downtown Dyehouse 722 First Ave. So. 2833-35 Hennepin 102 First Street North Minneapolis, Minn. Please mention the WEEKLY when writing to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section. F. STODOLA MINNESOTA The University Tailor will do your tailoring SONG BOOK

1407 Fourth SL S . E. Minneapolis For Sale by Book Stores

Edwin R. Williams Stationery CO. OT address STATIONERS, PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS W. W. ORTO N, We have sold the University material for your business or professiona1 traming. Why can't we sell Grand Forks, . D .. you now in your business. Both Phones 1010 Price $ 1.25 P ostage 12 cents 415 Heooe pin Ave. Minneapoli., M inn. TWIN CITY STAMP & STENCIL COMPANY GARLAND'S CANDIES All Kinds of More than any other kind have Rubbe r and Me tallic S tampa, Ink Pads, Da ters been eaten by University stu· Ste ncils, Steel and Iron Stamps, W ax, dents during the last 20 years. Corporate and Notary Public Se als, They are now better than ever. aU sizes &nd style s. 209 South Third St. Minneapolis, Minn. 36 South Fifth St. Minneapolis

J. MAN GRAY, Pres and Treas. Established 1 MINNEAPOUS ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT CO. G. S. NELSON, Secy. lncorporated 1910 INCORPORATED ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES T. K. GRAY DRUG CO., Inc. MACHINERY and CONSTRUCTION Wholesale and Retail Druggists R. D. THOMPSON, M anager - --Deale rs in --­ P aints . O ik. Varni&he., Etc. T . S. Center 413 121 South Sixth Street N. W. Nic. 1723 Minneapolis. Minn. The Oldest Drug and Paint House in the City 108 Hennepin Ave. Minne apolis, Minn .. W. C. Thompson Medical Balteries G. M. Jones Telephone., Fan Motor Minneapolis Electric and Construction CO . LEWIS -PAINTER CO. 621 First Ave. So., Minneapolis ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Electric Supplies, E lectric W iring, Bell and Hospital and Physicians' Supplies A nnunciator Work, Locksmithing and Repairing. Estimates Furnished. X-Roy and Electro Therape utic Apparatus 14 Seventh St. North Minneapolis, Minn. Manufacturers of Surgical Instruments and Orthopedic ------Appliances R. M. LAIRD N . W . Nic. 586 T. S . North 1652 Electric Manuractu rers' Agent representing MINNEAPOLIS SHEET METAL • t Federal" Commercial Tungsten Fixtures " Thor" E lectric Laundry Machines WORKS ° Simp/ex" Electr ic Ironing Machines I#Hu,he." Electric Stoves and Toasters 132 Second St. North and all other electrical appliances. H. G. DAY Minneapolis, Minn . 311 Second An ... $oath M..... por. .. Minouot. Popular Priced Cafe 60 Elegantly Furnished Rooms Jeffrey & McPherson Co. 20 Connected with Bath Stationers Printers Book Binders Hotel Carleton 418·420 Third Avenue South Min neapolis Europe AD Plan :: Unde r N ew Managem e nt "We a re jU31 as near to uou as uour telephone" 20 Eighth Street South N . W . Nicollet 989 T. S. Cen ter 9~9 A. G. EDWARDS, Manager Minneapolis, Minn. BEMIS BRO. BAG CO. C. W. & M. A. Dorsett BAGS CATERERS N . W. Main 1473 6 12·614·616 Fourth Street South 51 Souti, Eighth Street Weddings and Receptions Minneapolis Minnesota l"u rni shed Mioneapolis, Mino. Please mention the WEEI LY when writing to adverti ers. Special Inaugural Is lle-Adverti ing Section. YOU CAN PAY 17 Cents A DAY

HE Largest Typewriter Concern in the World T offers you the Best T ypewriter in e istence, for 17 cents a day. This certainly places a prem­ ium on pennies! It recognizes honesty as a com­ mercial asset. 1l;e .... OLIVEn Tipewri-te r The Standard Visible Writer Its Record Has Never Been Equaled Catalog'ue F fee The Oliv-er Tye-writer C01l1pany 124 Fourth Street So. Minn apoIis, Minn.

Please mention the WEEKLY when writing to advertisers. ~ pecial Inaugural Is ue-Advertising Section. Dr. Cook's Gymnasium

709 HENNEPIN AVENUE THIRD FLOOR Splendidly Equipped The Best GYll1nasi Ull1

In The Northwest For The Business Man

Minneapolis Office &, School Furniture Co. Manufacturers of

Office, School and Laboratory Equipment

OFFICE AND FACTORY COR. OF 8th T . &L 8th E.. E. Minneapolis

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"The Candy Shop" "The Soda Parlor" For People of Refinement and Culture "WEBERS" 707 Nicollet Avenue Minneapolis

~ . PHOTO STUDIOS High Grade Portrait and Commercial Photography

ST. PAUL, GRAND FORKS MINNEAPOLIS 2S-27 W. Sth St. N. D. 6rh Sr. and 1sr Ave. So.

Attorney--Doctor--Professional Men

Your printing is your start, don't let it be neglected. We are used to starting young professional men out right. Consult us. Correspondence invited. THE INDEX PRESS 1401 University Ave. S. E. Minneapolis, Minn. Please mention the WEEKLY when writing to advertisers. The 1911 May Fete Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section.

Edmund D. Brooks Bookseller and Importer

Standard and Rare Book, Library Sets and Single Volumes in Fine Bindings Suitable for Presentation.

Original D rawia gs, Water-Colo ra a nd Etching, by Fam ous Artists.

89 Tenth Street South MINNEAPOLIS

Minnesota Paints BEST for ALL PAINTING PURPOSES

Manufactured By Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Company MINNEAPOLIS

The Van Tilburg Laboratories

CEO. T . WALKER, '05, Chemist Oil and Coal Analyses our Specialty

Analyses made of Water fot Boiler use. All Classes of Analytical Work Solicited.

2424-26-28 University Ave. S. E. Minneapolis, Minn.

ALBERT P . GILLES. Proprietor ALL WORK GUA RANTE ED Twin City Sidewalk and Pavement Co. MANUFACTURERS OF PORTLAND CEMENT SIDEWALKS and DRIVEWAYS

Building Stone, Curb and OFFICE AND FACTORY Cutter, Floor, Tile, Cellar 215 University Ave. N. E., Minneapolis Bottoms, Steps, Etc., Etc. TRI-STA TE SPRUCE 223

Please mention the WEEKLY when writing to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section. PAUL A. SCHMITT DEAL,ER in MUSIC and MUSICAL GOODS

Cor. Nicollet Avenue and Eighth Street

My large, carefully selected stock of Musical Instruments and Music will meet the requirements of all musical people Now published three fine songs by F rank Bibb [Class '10J, "Persian Love Song"-"Break, Break, Break"- "Hymn to Apollo."

"Make the best of everything; think the best of everybody; hope the best for yourself" and SInoke the Best Cigar, La PREFERENCIA Superiority Undisputed GEO. R. NEWELL &, COMPANY DIST R I B UT OR S

:: Manufacturers of D elicious Frozen Creams and Fruit Ices :: :: c. W. &u M. A. Dorsett W eddings and Receptions

The Furnished with a full comple­ ment of China, Silver, Dam­ University ask, Servants, Lunch Tables Caterers N. W. Main 1473 T. S. Center 1575

Special Rates to Students and Fraternities 5 1 So. 8th St. Minneapolis . L. C. Smith, U. of M. '97. Pres. W. F. Kunze, '97, Secy. H. L. Smith , Tre.s. Smith System Heating Company - Sole Manufacturers Of The Famous Smith System of Heating and Ventilation For Schools, Churches, Lodge Halls, Stores, Etc. Simple, Scientific , Economical

Wri te For Catalogue Minneapolis, Minnesota Indianapolis, Indiana Please mention the WEEKLY when writing to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section. Mechanical Technical Works

By the best and most prominent authorities of the day. Large Stock always Carried.

Full Line of Electrical and Wireless Telegraph Experimental Appliances

(Formerly Minneapolis Electric Motor Co.)

9 SO. 5th ST., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

KEUFFEL &t, ESSER CO. of New York CHICAGO MONTREAL SA FRANCISCO ST. LOUIS DRAWING MATERIALS SURVEYING INSTRUME TS MEASURING TAPES 68 West Madison Street, Chicago Ill.

We Specialize on High Grade PHYSICAL APPARATUS Covering Almost Eve r y Requirement Precision Measuring- Instruments, Optical Instruments, Apparatus for Schools, Colleges, Etc. We are special agents for many leading European houses and can take care of import orders to the best ad­ vantage. Catalogs on request. WM. GAERTNER & COMPANY 5345-5349 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO, ILL

F. O. STREED, PRES . J. TAYLOR, ECY. Telephone: Tri-State Annex 98 Twin City Tile &- Marble Company CONTRACTORS

Dealers in Encaustic and Ceramic Mosaic Tiles (Glazed and Unglazed) For Floors, Walls, Ceilings, Etc. Slate Steps and Platforms and Marble Interior Finish Estimates Cheerfully Furnished Workmanship Guaranteed 312-314 Seventh Street South, Minneapolis, Minn. Please mention the WEE} LY when \vriting to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section.

Mr. Colwell is a Uni­ rrHE COLWELL PRESS versity man,- ex-'9S; he was in the printing business at th e UOlver­ J)rtnting... si ty for fifteen years, and is familiar with T. H. COL~VELL, PROPRIETOR college work from Al­ pha to Omega. :: :: :: 329 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS

FORTRl\1T ETCHINGS INDIl\ f'ROOFS :!l£lnbrauilt S tU1)in

9 SOUTH FIFTH STREET

N . 'vi FHONE NICOLLET 2434 MINNEI\POLIS

Minneapolis Gas Fixture Co. WHOLESALE and RETAIL LIGHTI N G FIXT U RES 814 HENNEPIN AVENUE

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

T . C. Telephone Center 1654 N. W . Telephone M"i n 1654 A. J. HOWATT & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS HAY AND STRAW GRAIN, FEED AND MILLSTUFFS 428 Third Avenue North Minneapolis, Minn.

Adolph G. Schlener Manufacturer of Fine and Heavy Harnesses Fitting Horse Collan a Specialty We manufacture Automobile Leather Specialties of all shapes. Sample Cases, Boxes and all kinds of Leather Goods made to order. Suit Cases and Travelling Bags Repaired. 15 North First Street, MINNEAPOLIS P lease mention the WEEKLY when writing to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section.

MAKER OF FI N E PORTRAITS Nicollet at Eleventh Minneapolis

THE KETTLE RIVER COMPANY BUILDING STONE CURBING-SANDSTONE PAVING A ND CREOSOTED WOOD BLOCK PAVING

1 111 Plymouth Bid. Minneapolis

WYMAN, PARTRIDGE & COMPANY

WHOLESALE DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS

4th St. and 1st Ave. No. Minneapolis

COMPLIMENTS OF WEST DISINFECTING COMPANY Ino. 1551 University Avenue, Midway

The Largest Manufacturers of Disinfectants, Disinfecting Ap­ pliances, Liquid Soap and Liquid Soap Dis- pensers in the World.

BEAU BRUMMELL LIQUID SOAP- CHLORO·NAPTHOLEUM

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THE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CO. ARTHUR L. ABBOTT, Manager 185-189 EAST 4th ST., ST. PAUL CONTRACTORS FOR Electric Equipment of BUildings for Power and Illumination Central Stations, Overhead and Underground Dis­ tribution Systems, Street Lighting Systems.

Electrical Engineering Company ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES MAZDA LAMPS

21 NORTH SIXTH STREET MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

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LOOK FOR ... THE ... N. B. & c. First National Bank On The Drugs and Medicines IN MINNEAPOLIS YOU BUY

It Stands For was Established in 1864 and now has a Capital and Surplus f1I Scientific Methods of Four M illion D ollars and assets f1I Standardized Quality of 'Cwenly -se1>en Million•. f1I Analytical Control It has the ability and desire to handle You r A e c 0 u D t.

Interest paid in Saoings -De­ NOYES BROTHERS & CUTLER partment. The Largest Wholesale and Man­ ufacturing Druggist intbenorthw-est First National Bank Saint Paul First Ave. So. and 5th

THE BEAUTIFUL Hotel National Hotel Andrews THE HOME OF THE EPI CURE AND BOHEMIAN Opened to the Traveling Public Special Busi ness Men's Luncheo n September 4th. 1911 Unusual Cooking Site of Old Brunsw-ick Corn Fed Beef used Ex­ clusively 200 ROOMS

We make a Specialty on Sea Food :shipped Di rect from 160 RomTls with Bath the Ocean. RATES $1.00 UP SaD1.ple RooD1.S Specia l attention given to Thea tre Parties ­ Exce lle nt Music- Full Orch estra w ith Gra nd Pipe Organ. Phone For Reservation. Beautiful Grill in Connection J. R. FERRIS, Proprietor T. S. Center 367 N. W . M ..in 4256 MINNEAPOLIS

Please mention the WEE KLY when writing to advertisers. Special Inaugural Issue-Advertising Section. WATERPROOF City Lighting COMPO· BOARD A Substitute For Lath Such as we installed on Nicollet Avenue and Plaster and other streets for the Publicity Club Can b e Cut with Any Saw is a good showing of Can be Put in Place by A ny Carpenter our capability in that Advantages over P laster a n d Steel- It line. All work is is better, warmer, more durable, done up to the quicker and more easily applied. hi g he s t point of It Saves Time, Fu el and H ealth. efficiency. All boards are 4 feet wide and 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 feet long. For prices, samples and full information write W. O. Hartig Electric Company Northwestern Compo-Board Co. S 16 Hen nep in Avenue MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis, Minn., U. S. A .

LOUIS KOPFMANN Successor to College Men and Women Knovv the value of always appearing Neat and Clean.

VVE KNOVV how to Clean Clothes and Laund­ er your linen so that you will Tri-State Center 344 always appear well. Sto r es: 705-7-92ndAve.So. We Guarantee TO G I V E Y O U Better Service B etter Costum es Fresher Costumes Comptet e Costumes Correct Costumes Better Fit Prompt Delivery FOR CLEANERS DYERS LAUNDERERS Practically the same you. are. payi.ng for inferior service and dIssatIsfactIOn 86-88-90 So. T enth St. GIVE US A TRIAL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS Please mention the WEEKLY when writing Lo advertisers. Vol. XI. November 6, 1911. No.7 'os-Leifur Magnusson is still with the Bureau of Labor, and expects to continue his work for his master's degree at George Vv' ashington University. 'oS Med.-Dr. G. W. Frasier has re­ moved from Detroit to Minneapolis. 'OS, '07 Law-C. P. Schouten is with Hood & Penney, doing a liability and cas­ ualty insurance and surety bond business. Their office is at 200 Phoenix Bldg., of this city. 'oS Law-Torger Sinness is located at Minnewaukan, North Dakota, where he is serving his second term as State's Attor­ ney of Benson county. He is associated with Judge B~lttz in the practice of law under the firm name of Buttz & Sinness. Mr. Sinlless some years ago married one Why Not of Minnewaukan's brightest young women and they have two young sons. You! '06 Law-Since graduating from the Uni­ versity in 1906 Mr. V. E . Anderson has 4Jl People realize, more and more, that a book been engaged in the practice of law at account maintained systematically, is the greatest Wheatoll, Minll. For four years he was aid to finacial progress. associated with F. W. Murphy, Law '93, 4Jl YOU can enjoy many privileges by becom­ and since that time has been in practice ing a depositor. for himself. A year ago he was elected county attorney of Traverse county. For 4Jl T his bank offers its services to responsible the past five years he has been secretary people who desire to build a surplus, and enjoy of the commercial club of Wheaton, Minn. the benefits of an association with a strong In I909 he was married to Miss Annie M. fi nancial institution. Hass who was a graduate in music of the Royal conservatory in Berlin, Germany.

The Security National' Bank Invites Checking Accounts

"The Candy Shop" "The Soda Parlor" For People of Refinement and Culture "WEBERS' 707 Nicollet Avenue Minneapolis who has for so long held "the highest posi­ tion in the gift of the people of the state" and for so many years been "the first citi­ zen of the State of Minnesota."

A MISLEADING STATEMENT. Science of October 27th, contains. a table Vol. XI. Nov. 6, 1911. No.7. howing the number of students per in­ Entered at the postoffice In Minneapolis as structor in state colleges and universities. second class mall matter. The ligures given for Minnesota are 26.1 students to each instructor, a very evident Subscription price, $2 per year fOI" all who mistake. Probably 16.1 was the figure in­ have been graduated more than three y ars. tended. To thOSe who have been graduated Jess than three years, $1.25 per year. Minnesota's enrollment for I9IO-ll was 6,037, which includes 72 correspondence A discount of 25 cents is allowed for pay­ students. Omitting these, the total is ment before October 15 of ,each year. 5,955 students. The total number in the faculty is 455. This includes 65 who rank Loose money sent in payment of subscriptions as assi tants, 34 of this number being clin­ iB at the sender's risle ical as istants in the department of medi­ cine who receive no pay. In the 455, who Address all communications to the Minnesot a Alumni Weekly are included in the staff of instruction, are The Uni\'ersity of Minnesota, 89 who do not receive any compensation. Minneapolis. These are mainly in the college of medi­ cine and surgery. Omitting these 89, the E. B. JOH N SON, '88 E ditor. faculty numbers 366. 5,955 divided by 366 EAR LE R. HAR E , M. D ., '00. is 16.2 which indicates the maximum num­ E ditor of the Special M ed ical Issues. ber of students per instructor. Using the HARRY WILK, '12, A dvertising Manager . larger number, 455, as the number in the faculty, the number of students to each COMING E VENTS, member is 13. This number is much higher than the general average for all the insti­ hapel exercises for the week-Monday, tutions combined, the average being 10.5 Concert, Univer ity chorus. students to each instructor. A small group Wednesday, Rev. J. M. Cleary, address. Friday, Professor Emeritus Sanford, of the institutions, with which Minnesota English. ought to rank, has an average of but 9.5 studen ts to each instructor. Thursday, Nov. 9, Professor Lehnerts, The teaching of geography in American universitie , 4 P. M. ANOTHER GROUP FOR THE UNI­ .l T

Albert L. Shipley, Va., 2; Sigvert S. Dr. Bray, who spoke first, discussed the Dahl, Va., I; Frank Wildes, Hibb., I; Har­ prospects of the alumni association and riet D. Moore, M t. Iron, I; A. K. Knicker­ compared the present ideas concerning bocker, Hibb., I; O. A. Sundness, Buhl, I; such as ociations with the ideas that pre­ A. C. Borgeson, Hibb., I; Katherine De­ vailed twenty years ago. Veau, l-Iibb., I; Dr. Bray, Biwabik 2; J Professor Emmons' address dealt with Faith Weaton, Hibb., I; Harriet Levin, Au­ the relation of geology to the problems of rora, I; lnez 1. Hovey, Gilbert, I; Millie conserva tion. Johnson, Gilbert, I; Dora Holcomb, Hibb., Miss Holcomb gave two readings that I; W. M. Tilderquist, Hibb., I; Lila Swain, were very much appreciated. Hibb., 2; A. C. Oberg, Hibb., I; A. Y. President Vincent, who closed the pro­ Peterson, Chisholm, 3; P. S. Kurtzman, gram, gave the alumni a very full report McKinley, I; Dorothy Rose Hudson, Gil­ of the events of Inaugural week, speaking bert, I; Kathryn Dougherty, Hibb., 2; in appreciation of the work of the alumni Ethel Stratton, Hibb., 2; Fred C. Lang, in making the affairs of the week a success Chisholm, I; Eli abetll Shepartson, Hibb., and aying that he expected the hearty co­ I; Chas. F. Jackson, Va., 2; Dr. O. B. operation of all of the alumni in the carry­ vVood, Va., 2; Otto A. Poirier, Va., 2; Wm. ing out of the future plans for the enlarge­ A. Deichen, Hibb., I; Gertrude Bowne, ment of tbe influence and usefulness of the Biwabik, 2; Mrs. M. B. Elson, Gilbert, 2; University to the state. John Murphy, Kewatin, 2; R. H. Bassett, Dean Appleby, who was present, did not i-libb., I; R. A. Angst, Hibb., I; H. K. Read, speak, but received a very hearty greeting Deering, Va., 2; C. F. Yates, Va., I; J. c. from the alumni. Farmer. Biwabik, 2; L. E. Spurbeck, Biwa­ President Vincent told the alumni that bik, 1; R. L. Griggs, Va., _; G. F. Shea, Va., at a recent chapel exercise Dean Appleby 2; J. C. Richards, Va., I; Earl Richards, was pre ent and the Dean had to sit up Va., 2; Cleon T . Knapp, Chisholm, I; Mary most of the night trying to explain to the E. Shiely, Va., I; Chas. Claypoole, Va., 2; alumni who were pre ent how it was that Edward Boyle, Va., I; Wm. J. Archer, Va., he happened to attend chapel. I; Mr. Bowman. Gilbert, I; W. E. Hunt, President Vincent is enthusia tic over l-libbing, I; \Y. A. Rose, Hibbing, I; D . T. the meeting and can not say enough for Collins, Hibbing, I; H. J. Rahilly, Eveleth, the cordial way in which he was received I; L. M. 0 born, Va., I; Mr. Clinch, Chis­ and the character of the alumni who met holm, I; \V. Ro e, Va., I; Wm. Anderson, at Virginia. The alumni were just as thor­ Hibb., I; B. A . Adams, Hibb., I; Mr. ough Iy pleased with President Viucent, and Krau e, I; Dr. Cummings, Hibb., I; Harry those who had not had an opportunity to Ang t, I; Genevieve Swain, 1. meet him and greet him before were de­ President Vincent was the special guest lighted with the man. of honor of the evening. Dean \ m. R. Ap­ Officers for the following year \vere pleby of the school of mines, and Professor elected as follows: Otto A. Poirier of Emmons, the new professor of geology, Virginia was elected president; vice presi­ and the Honorable C. B. Millel' of Duluth, dent, Cleon T. Knapp, Chisholm; secre­ were also guests of the a sociation at thi tary, R. L. Griggs, Virginia; treasurer, J. meeting. E . Lunn, Biwabik. The program of toasts was presided over The next annual banauet of the associa­ by Cleon T. Knapp, Law '07. Toasts were tion will be held at Hibbing, when it is re ponded to by Dr. C. VV. Bray, '91. Med. expected to have Dean Vance of the law '95' Prefe or Emmons, Clarence B. Mil­ college present a the special guest of hon­ ler' '95, Law '00; and President Vincent. or. The retiring officers of the association Mi~s Dot'a Holcomb, '09, gave a reading are. pre ic\ent, R. A. Angst, Law '98; vice which was very much enjoyed. pre ident. Otto A. Poirier, Law '02; secre­ tary, B. S. Adam, '98, Med. '01; treasurer, The arrangements for the affair were J. E. Lunn, '08. made by the following committee: Otto A. Poirier, Law '02; Sigvert S. Dahl, Law '10; J oseph W. Deering, Dent. '05; harles FARGO-MOORHEAD MINNESOTA B. Lenont Med. '99; George F. Shea, Law ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. '03; harl~s F . J ack on, Mines, '07; Rich­ A Minnesota alumni association was or­ ard L. Grigg, '07; Edward L. Boyle, Law ganized Fri lay evening, October 20th, at '09; J ohn C. Richards. the office of W . L. Stockwell, '89, in the C. B. Miller di cussed the relation of Masonic Temple of Fargo, N. D. A con­ the University to the political, ocial and siderable number of alumni both of Fargo economic life of the state and paid a warm and Moorhead turned out in response to tribute to President Vincent. He congrat­ a call sign ed by five alumni. Those pres­ ulated the alumni upon the rapidly pread­ ent proceeded to organize a Fargo-Moor­ in<> and deepening influence of the Univer­ head Mil1ne ota A lu mni ssociation and sitY and its alumni and told of some of planned for a banquet in h onor of Pre i­ the things that had been already accom­ dent Vincent on the e\'ening of lovemb r plished by the al umni. 2nf1. ALUMNI WEEKLY 7

The officers of the new Fargo and Moor­ In February Dean J ames has been in­ head association are as follows: W. L. vited to give the leading address before Stockwell, 159, president; Edwm T. Reed, the national society of college teachers of '95, vice president; Sidney D. Adams, '9I, education which meets in connection with secretary and treasurer; additional mem­ the department of superintendence at St. bers of the executive committee, Mrs. J. A. Louis. His topic will be the "Relation of PIerce, '05, and Miss Je sie McKenzie, 'oS· normal chool to colleges or university The chief mover in securing this organiza­ departments of education." tion has been Mr. Stockwell. PROFESSOR DAVID F. SWENSON PROFESSOR GRAY RETURNS. MEMBER OF SCHOOL BOARD. Profes or John H. Gray, head of the de­ Last Friday evening, October 27th, the partment of economics, made a recent trip City council of Minneapolis elected Profes­ to New York City to participate with sor David F. Swenson, of the department the members of a special committee of the of philo ophy, a member of the school National civic federation which is engaged board, vice Rev. M. Falk Gjertsen, re- in a most exhaustive study of trusts and igned. The election came on the third their methods. The object of the federa­ ballot and 1fr. Swenson received sixteen tion will be to draw model state and na­ votes to ten for his opponent. tional bills for the control of corporations Professor Swenson was born in Sweden and public utilities. Professor Gray is an in 1876. He passed through the grade expert in this line and was a member of schools of thi city and graduated from a committee of three men under whose the high school and entered the Ul1iver- superYlsion three volumes on the subject ity in r894, graduating in 1898. From of public ownership were compiled for the r898 to 1902 Professor Swenson pur ued federation in 1907, Profes or Gray being graduate tudies at the University and dur­ chairman of the committee. The meeting ing the year 1905-6 at Columbia. In 1893- of the committee of October 21st was 94, before entering the University, Profes­ mainly concerned with ways and means to sor Swenson taught an ungraded school. ecure the information upon which to base From 1899-02 he was assi tant in philos­ a report. ophy in the University; 1902-07 was in- The committee of which Professor Gray tructor. He was made a i tant: professor is a member is compo ed of some of the in r907. \Vhile at Columbia Univer ity mo t di tingui~hed experts of the country. pursuing graduate work he held the rank They are Emerson McMillin, a gas mag­ of assistant in charge of classes at Bar­ nate of New York city; Frank Q. Brown, nard ollege and Columbia College. Pro­ New York broker; Blewett Lee, a relative fessor Swenson is frequently called on for of the' great Confederate general of Civil lectures both in Swedi h and English, es­ war memory, chief solicitor of the Illinois pecially to young people, and is contribut­ entral railway; 1\lilo Roy Maltbie, a mem­ ing editor on Veckobladt. a Minneapolis ber of the public en-ice commission of the Swedi h weekly. He is the author of re­ Fir t di trict of New York; Martin S. views and articles in various philosophical Decker, of the Second di trict; Frank K and p ychological journals. Member of Phi Lane, of the interstate commerce com­ Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, "'estern Philo oph­ mis-ion at \Vashington; P. H. Morrissey, ical Association. American Philosophical former labor leader and at present an of­ Association. Professor Swenson was edit­ ficial of the American Railway as ociation. or in chief of the '98 Gopher, which is and J. \V. SulliYan, editor and labor leader. the only Gopher ever i sued at the Uni­ The next meeting of the committee will verity by the "Barb ." be held ome time in November. PRAISE FOR BEACH'S BOOK. JAMES IN DEMAND. M. A. 'II-Richard J. Purcell, who is a Dean George F. James, of the college of ~cholar in the department of history of the education, is invited to peak Friday, N 0- Univer ity, wrote to the Minne ota Daily vember 24th at Urbana, Illinois. before a from England concerning the reception of state convention of school superintendent. Profes or Joseph Beach" recent book, His topic will be "The preparation of sec­ "The comic pirit in Meredith," by the ondary teacher from the point of view of English critic. Mr. Purcell ays: the univer ity." Readers of the Minnesota Daily wiJ1 be He has also been invited to meet with pleased to hear of the highly flattering re­ the teachers of Oklahoma at their annual ception which literary England has given convention in Oklahoma ity, December to Dr. Beach's recent book, "The comic -7-29, when he will give a morning addres spirit in Meredith.' All the leadng London and an evening lecture before the general reviews have commented in the 1110 t lau­ ses ions, and by special reqnest, a talk datory manner on its style and it acute al 0 before the city school superintendents and .ympathetic interpretation of Mere­ at their section meeting. dith's gift of "thoughtful laughter." In 8 THE MINNESOTA some of them, however, there is a touch the late fall and next spring; Professor Sar­ of half conceal~d national jealousy that the deson; vVarren Upham librarian of the true appreCiatIOn of this Briton should state I~istorical society; Professor D. come from an AIljIe:'ican critic. The Spec­ Lange, 08, of St. Paul; Eugene Van Cleff tatOr of Sept 16 gIVes a splendid review. of the Duluth normal school; Charles C: I quote: " Mr. Beach is a careful, acute, Colby of the Winona normal and Jack and frequently an eloquent exponent. He is Haynes of the Northern Pacific railway. The a dlscnmmating analyst of character and a first trip will be made to Taylor's Falls trustworthy guide to the psychology of I ovember 9th. ~eredlth's figures. He is always interest­ mg, too, a nd has the knack of coining KATHERINE EVERTS AT THE memorable phrases. * * * Especially trustworthy is he in his interpretation of UNIVERSITY. the artistic side." Ka~heri.ne ,,J ~wel1 Everts, '94, read "My Lady s Ring In the University chapel Oc­ tober 27th. The reading was given under PROFESSOR ALLIN'S NEW BOOK. the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. " My Prof.e~sor c.. D. Allin, of the department Lady's Ring" was written especially for of pohtlcal SCience, has just issued a new Miss Everts by Alice Brown. book entitled "Annexation, Preferential Trade and Reciprocity." The book em­ KEPT THE BALL ROLLING. braces a study of the question of the an­ The following paragraph was inadvert­ nexation of Canada to the United States antly omitted from the Inaugural issue with special reference t o the question of of the Wee k I y. preferential trade with Great Britain and A group of twelve alumni, named be­ reCiiprocity with the United States. The low, led the singing and cheering at the book was written in collaboration with Mr. Inaugural dinner and their work was very G. M. Jones of the University of Toronto. much appreciated. The same crowd or a similar crowd wil! be on hand for'the annual dinner next winter. There were in ORGANIZE SCHOOLMASTERS' CLUB. the crowd- Cyrus Barnum, Hal Deering, President Vincent, State Superintendent Bob Deering. Jay Poucher, LeRoy San­ C. G. Schulz, Superintendent Heeter of the ford, Orren Safford, Wilbur Shaw, Glenn St. Paul schools, President F. A. Weld of Greaves, Louis Collin, Ru sell Smith, E. the Moorhead normal, and Professor W. B. Pierce, C. R. Adams, with C. T. Nelson, F. Webster of the East high school, re­ a senior, for cornetist. E. B. Pierce was cently call ed a meeting for the purpose responsible for gathering the boys and of organizing a Schoolmasters' Club. Mr. helping to make their work a success.. Schulz acted as chairman and appointed a committee of nine to draw up a constitu­ ADDED TO THE LIST OF CHARTER tion and by-laws for such an organization. MAKERS. Plans are for this club to meet twice a Profe sor vVilliam A. Schaper and Paul year. "Y. Guilford, '97, Law '00, have been added to the Minneapolis Charter commission to ORGANIZE 'GEOGRAPHICAL take the places of members previously ap­ SOCIETY. pointed who have resigned. This makes six University men on the commission. Recently several people connected with the University have undertaken to organize a Minnesota Geographical society. Minne­ DEAN COMS.TOCK RETURNS. sota offers a peculiarly interesting field for Ada L. Comstock, dean of women, has geographi cal study and investigation and returned from the National convention about thirty geographers gathered at the of tbe association of collegiate alumnae in University to organize a society with the New York. The Minnesota branch of this purpose of making excursions in investi­ organi zati on is eight in size in the United gatin g and gathering material on which to States. Elsa Ueland, '09, who is engaged base official reports on the geography of in settlement work at Richmond Hill set­ the state. tlement house, New York, was one of the Professor Edward M. Lehnerts of the de­ Minnesota representatives at the conven­ partment of geology and geography at the tion. The chief subject of discu sion at University, was chosen president. Profes­ this meeting WfiS that of "Vocational op­ sor F. C. Miller. '03, of the St. Paul Cen­ portunities for coll ege women." Under the tral high school, was chosen secretary­ au pices of this association an intercol­ treasurer. Professor Sardeson of the Uni­ legiate bureau of appointment has just versity spoke upon the opportunities for been established in New York, to find geographical excursions in and around the st1itable employment for women graduates Twin Cities. The following were appoint­ f colleges. A similar bureau is to be ed a committee to plan for excursions for established in Philadelphia. A similar or- ALUMNI WEEKLY 9 ganization in Boston has been in existence Edgar Zelle, Theodore Thompson and for something like two years. These bu­ Eloi Bauers, will take the negative and reaus are run on a strictly business basis debate vVi sconsin at Madison. Both de­ and are elf supporting. bates will take place on the evening of In connection with this convention a December 8th. convention of the deans of women of American Universities was also held. While in the east Mi sCorn tock attended a meet­ SECOND INTE RFRATERNITY COUN­ ing of the board of Trustees of Smith Col­ CIL BANQUET. lege. The second annual interfraternity ban­ quet wa held at Donaldson's tea rooms E NTERTAIN MRS. VINCENT. October 27th. There were about four hun­ The Tam O'Shanters, an organization of dred in attendance, representing every the junior girls, entertained Mrs. Vincent fraternity in the University. Professor at a frolic Friday evening, October 27th Nicholson, president of the Interfraternity 111 Alice Shevlin Hall. council, acted at toastmaster. The speakers were Professor Nachtrieb, Chester Wilson, Wm. Hodson and Regent Chas. L. Som­ H ERT IG FOR MAYOR. mers. President Vincent made a special 'Wendell Hertig, Law'95, formerly alder­ plea for fraternities to make themselves man from the fifth ward, has been very useful in the community life of the Univer­ eriously con idered as republican candi­ sity. date for mayOr of the city of Minneapolis. The en tertainmen t aside from speech­ It i to be said that if Mr. Hertig would making took the form of a meeting of the &ive the lightest indication that he would Interfraternity council, the student work consider the acceptance of the nomination committee, a Uni\'er ity election and mili­ of the office he could have the honor. Mr. tary drill. Various members of the faculty Hertig has in the past, repeatedly refused were repre ented by students in the e meet­ to consider the propo ition. ings and e\'erybody pre ent thoroughiy en­ joyed the various hits. President 10rthrop was represented by Robert \\Tilson, Gov­ PROFESSOR PHELAN A DELEGATE. ernOr Eberhart also was repre ented by a Dr. Raymond Pbelan of the department tudent while Wm. Hodson took the part of political science, was appointed by Gov­ of President Vincent. The student work ernor Eberhart to represent the tate of committee \Va called to order by Chairman Minne ota to the fir t annual conference of Professor icllolson. A lengthy and warm the Civic and Social Center development discussion was held over the need of which was held at Madison, Wis., October hiring a chambermaid for the flower beds 25th to 28th. on the campus. Singing and impromptu peeches clo ed the program which was FIVE COMETS IN SIGHT. voted a complete succes . The a tronomical department of the Uni­ versity is exceedingly busy these days VALUABLE REPORT BY DR. keeping t rack of the five comets that are BERKEY. to be seen at the present time. Professor Leavenworth and Mr. Davis, his as i tant, The 'vVe e k I y has just received a copy have taken several fine photograph of No ....89, of the serie of Education De­ ~ome of the e comet. partment Bulletin of the "Cniver ity of the State of New York. The bulletin is a report upon the Geology of the New York ELE CTE D TO SIMPLIFIED SPELL­ City ( at kill) Aqueduct, by Profes or ING BOARD. Charles P. Berkey, '92, of the Columbia Profe sor Richard Burton, head of the School of Mine, Special geoloCTi,t of the department of Engli h, ha, been elected a N. Y. State Geological uney, and consult­ member of the national implified spelling ing geologist f the Board of 'vVater Supply board. of New York City. In. I909 the board entrusted to Dr. Berkey the ta k of put­ ting in shape the data gathered in QUESTION FOR DEBATE. both the preliminary and final stlrvey for The question for debate with ebraska the aqueduct. and of making a umma­ and vVisconsin this year is to be, "R olv­ tion and pre entation f the conclusions to ed. that the fedcr:d goyernment should e - be drawn from thi material. in its broader tabli h a policy of ship subsidies." One and more important bearino-s. The docll­ team will debate Nebra ka in the Uni­ ment ha been pronounced of the highest versity fmory. taking the affirmative ide value. not only a. enlarging and perfect­ of the quc tion. Thi team is composed ing the knowledge of the geological truc­ of M. N. 01 on, Stanley Gillam and Theo­ ture of the commercial center of the United dore Utne. , nother tcam consi ting of States but it data and c nclusion will 10 THE MINNESOTA prove. of vast importance to all large en­ taken up with lectures On training and g111eenng and architectual propositions con­ personal hygiene. cerned with the lower Hudson valley. "A man who has led a pure, clean, . The repon itself fills 284 pages, in addi­ Christian life will be the best athlete," tIon to a large number of inserted half said Coach Grant recently. ''The study of tones and maps, including a large folding the highest themes in individual life gives pocket ma~ in color, showing the geolog­ a great fraternal pirit, and this is abso­ Ical formatIon along the proposed lines for lutely necessary in a winning team." distribution conduits. The book is well printed and is a wonderfully intere ting, Professor A. \V. Rankin, of the depart­ complete and useful study in applied geol­ ment of pedagogy, spoke Sunday, October ogy. The author, in his introduction, ex­ 16th at Moorhead before the Men's semi­ presses the hope that the book may prove nar of the First Congregational church. to be useful in helping to effect a wider This is an organization which discusses appreciation of the practical usefulness of topics of the day. Professor Rankin poke geology. The report reflects great credit upon "The development of democracy 111 upon t'rofes 'or Berkey, and indirectly re­ America." flects honor upon the University of .Min­ nesota, 5ince it was here that he received Dean Carl Seashore, of the graduate his early training and the inspIration to chool of the University of Iowa, addressed pursue so successfully the line of work a group of psychology students Thursday, in which he is engaged. The Wee k I y October 26th on the measurement of musi­ congratulates Dr. Berkey upon the fine cal ability as a field for the consulting piece of work which he has done in this psychologist. Dean Sea. hore is pre ident investigati on and in the preparation of the of the American Psychological association results for his report. and was a delegate from that a sociatioll to the inauguration of President Vincent. OF GENERAL INTEREST. Dr. vVood - Hutchinson, spoke at the President Vincent has an office hour at chapel exercise last Monday upon the the department of agrIculture Thursday of "Race Stream." Dr. Hutchinson's address each week, giving the students and faculty was very interesting and was thoroughly of that department an opportunity to con­ appreciated. He aid that every individual sult with him without being obliged to is but a part of this 12,000 year race tream take a [rip to tIl e University campus. a nd for this reason we are influenced very little by immediate heredity but that every Proto Froleigh, a student in the Uni­ individual was responsible for keeping the versity, dislocated his shoulder while wav­ stream as pure and wholesome as pos­ ing hi anns and cheering after Capron sible. made h is touchdown in the Nebraska game. A doctor wa called and the shoulder Professor F. J. E. Woodbridge, of Co­ was set, a fter which Froleigh left the stand lumbia Univer ity, formerly a member of waving hi s uninjured arm and still cheer­ the faculty of the Univer ity of Minnesota, ing for Minne,ota. lectured October 23d, in the UniversitY chapel, upon The spirit of Greek philo 0 - Secretary Hays, assistant secretary of phy. the U . S. department of a~ricultllre, spoke at the College of Agriculture Thur day, Professor F. F. Grout, of the depart­ October 26th. He di scussed the relation ment f mineralogy, lectured October 26th of the department to the individual farmer. upon tl) e "Geology of North Park and Middle Park, Colorado." HARE AND HOUND RACE. Fifty students of the University met one The annual "hare and hound" race wa evening last week to organize a La Follette held Saturday, October 28th. The team Club. The organization incorporated in representing the Pi Phis w n the Grant its own constitution the recall of its own cup which was held by the Tri Delt last officers. Representative W . 1. Nolan, who year. Harold Hl.JI and Tom Graham were was pre ent and address~d the meeting, the hares. Tydeman. Bibb. and Beddall stated that 80% of the university graduates who finished third. fourth and sixth, re­ in the tate are pro~re sive in their views. spectively, won the victory. Lindeberg, who John F. Sinclair, '06, Law '09. of the vVis­ represented the Tri Delts. finished fir t; con in legislative reference bureau, also Murdink, representing- the Alpha Gamma, addressed the club. finished ,econd and Stad. wold for the Tri Delts fini shed fifth in the race. Dick Grant, coach of track athletics, has org-anized a cIa s for Bible tudy among the members of the teams. The Bible class ARMSTRONG WINS FINALS. will meet once a week during the lunch Joe Armstrong w ho held the Tennis hour and another hour each week wi ll be championship of the U niversity last year, ALUMNI WEEKLY II

has again won that honor. Armstrong son discus ed in his address at the inaugu­ and Stellwagen will play Poucher and ration of President Vincent, insisting that Pierce in the doubles some time in the each professor should be used mainly for near future. those activities for which he is best fitted, but that young and untried men be early given a reasonable opportunity to devote T he meeting of the Association of Ameri­ some small portion of their time to advanc­ can Universities at the University of ed work by which tbey might make good Chicago on O ctober 26th and 2gth, and demonstrate their aptitudes of ad­ IgII. vanced work, and when they have so dem­ Nearly everyone of the twenty-two uni­ onstrated their fitness for uch work it versities constituting this assocIation was i- time to give them larger scope, represented at this meeting, the larger Many side questions were treated in the number of them by its president and at paper, among them the practical difficulty lea 't one delegate, as was the case with the administration ha in suitable apprais­ Minnesota, ing the relative importance of the various The fir t paper presented was by Dean researche for which appropriations are Greene of Illinois on the question of the a ked. It too often happens that the per- relati\'e advantages of organizing university onality of the applicant and the eagerness departments on the usual plan of perma­ of hi reque t or some other adventitious nently retaining a single head, versus the circumstance enable him to obtain undue Harvard plan of a departmental committee aid for his work while more meritorious under a chairman. work is unable to get financial assistance, I twas hown that while during the A suitable buffer- between tho"e who a k period during which a department is small for aid and tho e who grant it is very much and increasing rapidly in ize a single per­ to be desired. manent head probably makes for efficiency Thi gave opportunity to explain the and continuity of policy, a far different unique plan just adopted at Minnesota by set of influence come into play after a which all reque ts for aid are ubmitted department becomes large enough 0 that for con ideration to a research committee it contains or should contain a number of and

tions of policy and administration for minute and was in eyery mix-up doing hIS mutual enlightenment and better understand­ share to advance the ball. The line, from ing of their commOn problem, how best to end to end, was invincible-a veritable foster the most advanced work done in stone wall against which Chicago could Our universities. Such a conference as make no headway, and always through to thi had been held at previous meetings break up hicago's plays before they could and had been found to be so necessary get tarted. Morrell played a great game that a number of deans of graduate schools at center and added to his laurels by mak­ were in attendance at their own expense ing the first score with a place kick. He who were not delegates to the association. missed three goals, the first of the season, The questions arising in the administration yesterday, though one of the three broke of graduate schools are so new and im­ off the top of the goal p05t. Smith sur­ portant that it is extremely de irable to prised the crowd by dropping two beautiful put the united wisdom and experience of goals from the field, with three trials. The all at the disposal of each, as can be accom­ end5 were notably stronger yesterday than plished in no way so well as the free and at any time before this season, while the 1I1formal interchange of a round table con­ guards and tackles were in every play and ference. The meeting as a whole was doing their best to help along the team most useful in bringing together and help­ work and protect the back field in its work ing to fuse into a consensus of opinion and of advancing the ball. Capron and Stevens action the men controlling the leading uni­ were close rivals on long returns of punts versitie of the country. and long HillS, with Capron ahead with one The annual report to be published later return of 55 yards to his credit, and Rosen­ will contain the papers · and discussions wald was not far behind either of his team in full, excepting the conference of deans. mates for he has one 2s-yard gain to his H. T. Eddy. credit and innumerable shorter gains. Leonard Frank kept up the reputation which he earned in the earlier games of the AT THE GAME. season for being a deadly tackler. If Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Cha e. '03, Anoka, Frank once touche a runner he is a "sure Dr. Arch h.obertson, of Litchfield, and old gonner." track man, Edward Roger, of \\Talker, The plat printed on the front cover of famous end of other days, Randolph Mc­ this issue tells the detailed plays of the Rae, of Canada, an old football man, Dr. game better than any words. Eckersall. H . H . Carl on, Dent. '03. and Dr. G. K. who saw the game said that the Gophers Hagaman, Med. 'oS, of Anoka, John Cole­ played a great game which would be "hard man, Law '08, of Anoka, Lee H . Cutter, for any eleven in the country to beat," and Law '08, Frank Fee and Ralph Bradley. of "In Capron, Minnesota has the best west­ Duluth. ern quarterback since the days of Steffens." The great surprise of the game was Smith'5 drop kicking. Smith has been doing this CHICAGO SMOTHERED. all the faU in practice but Saturday wab Minnesota wiped all old scores off the the first time that he has performed in slate la t Saturday by piling up a score public. of 30 to 0 in the annual game with Chi­ Last Saturday's game showed that Min­ cago. The score is a fair indication of nesota has one of the most effective foot­ the comparative merit of the playing of bali machines it has ever had and unle s . the two team . Chicago made first down ome unforeseen calamitv occurs it will but twice during the game and Minnesota come through the season with unb-roken made distance almost at will, around the record of victories. ends, through the line and by the air route. The fine feeling displayed between the The scoring was done by one place kick, partisans of the two teams was notable. two drop kicks and four touchdown, with The Chicago crowd began it by cheering one goal after touchdown. Di tance came President Vincent. Toward the end of the in long stretches with Capron, Stevens, game, when their champions were hope­ Rosenwald and Pickering carrying the ball. lessly defeated, Stevens. who was largely Team work wa in evidence at every stage respon ible for that defeat wa hurt. and of the game and the interference furnished the hicago crowd gaye him three cheers a nd t he way the men stuck to their inter­ as he rose to his feet to begin again his ference was remarkable. The long dodg­ deadly attack on their team. Minnesota ing rUIlS of Capron were as fine as any­ re ponded by cheering the Chicago men, thing of the kind ever seen on Northrop and when the Chicago team pul1ed off two field and never did a pair of halfbacks, fine forward passes tbat worked for twen­ I·epresenting the maroon and gold, give ty-five yards toward the Minnesota goal. better account of themselves. Rosenwald the cheering, by the Minnesota crowd. was excelled in going through the line and as hearty as though the gain s had been Stevens around the end. Capron seemed made by the Gopher. to excell in both lines. he could not be It was great day for Minnesota and the topped. Pickering was "on the job" every hi cago men died game-they did 11 0t qllit. ALUMNI WEEKLY 13

Minnesota (30) Chicago (0) the avenues hustled Stevens, Rosenwald, Tobin ...... L E ...... Kassulker Pickering and Capron. Robin on ...... LT .. Capt. Rademacher No such terrific onslaught has been wit­ Smith ...... L G ...... Goddard ne sed on a western gridiron for many a Morrell ...... C...... Whiting day. Even the Michigan-Minnesota game Powers ...... R G ...... Canning last year was not a marker to the form Frank ...... R T...... Carpenter howed by Coach William' heavies today. "\V.al1inder ...... R E ...... Scru.by The runners had been taught the "high Capron ...... Q B...... Pame step" to perfection and, running low, the Rosenwald ...... L H...... Sauer northmen plowed through Chicago's lines Stevens ...... R H ...... Norgren and secondary defense like an engine run­ Capt. Pickering .... F B...... Pierce ning wild. '1 he maroons played up to their limit, Substitutes-Sel1ers for Canning; Goet­ and there was no discounting their courage. tier for Kassulker; Lawler for Paine; They were there at the finish-that is, the Fonger for Sauer; Freeman for Goddard. majority of them, only three reserves be­ Touchdowns: Stevens, Rosenwald (2), ing called On by Coach Stagg. However, Capron. the hicago ends were a disappointment, Goals kicked: Morrel1 (I). mainly because of the almost perfect inter­ Goals Mi sed: Morrell (3). ference which 'William had been able to Field Goals: Morrell, Smith (2). work up. Time and again the maroon Official -Referee, W. C. Connett of Vir­ ends were boxed, permitting Stevens, Ro­ ginia; umpire, J. C. Holdt;rness of Lehigh: senwald and Capron e pecially to run wild. field judge, A. B. Fleager of Northwestern; Chicago was al 0 weak at center. Mor­ head line'man, Benbrook of Michigan. rell outplaying ''''hiting in big chunks. Time of quarters, IS minute. Chicago was expected to show some bril­ liant open field work, but the play were ( s ociated Press). usually smothered in the making, althoug. "That Minne ota had concealed her real near the clo e of the game two forward trength in the games with Nebraska and passe~ were good for good gain". Iowa was the freely expressed opinion of I t was Minnesota which staged the scroll exp rts who witnessed the defeat of the work, and no team that Vlilliams has Maroons. A variety of football was uncov­ turned out exhibited better open field tac­ ered on Northrop field on Saturday that tics than did his present team. was a revelation to the spectators. The In the kicking department Minnesota Gopher backs had been perfected in the had a superflurity of talent. It was a scrap "high knee action" which baffled Maroon from the beginning between the backs and tacklers again and again. All had been the forwards who should kick the ball. coached to run low and lift their knees in Capron, Pickering, Smith and Morrell all a manner effectively to "upper cut" tack­ had a shot at the pig kin. Scruby kicked leI'. to the standard shown in the Illinois game, apron proved himself as good an open but it did little good, as Minne ota was field runner a has been seen in a western chary of letting go of the ball when they conference game for some years. Pickering, once got it, and that was plenty." Rosenwald and Stevens were even superior to Capron in gaining through the line." IOWA A SURPRISE. (Chicago Record Herald). It will be many years before the Iowa "University of Minnesota football giants game of October 28th is forgotten. Iowa leaned against the University of Chicago was counted a weak team and no one ex­ eleven Saturday for a 30 to 0 score and pected anything el e than that Minnesota thus got even for a few gridiron insults in would run away with the game, while the the past. The maroons lived through four reverse is true, during the first half, Iowa periods of grueling battle and will be able came near running away with l\iinnesota, to tell the native at home omething about and kept the gopher on the defen ive the ogres they raise in this neck of tbe mo t of the time. Iowa scored early in woods. the game with a beautiful drop kick from It wa one of the most crushing defeat the forty-two yard line, the k-ick being su tained by the maroons and the crushing really made from the so-yard line. Minne­ facts fits the occa ion. Outweighing their sota could not seem to get together for ef­ opponents eighteen pound to the man, it fective work and with the wind in her favor was enough for the gopher following to Iowa ran al1 over the gopher and threat­ stand their ground and let the backs do the ened Minne'ota's goal a half dozen time, re t. and they did. ever did a 1Iinne ota Minne ota fighting de perately and effect­ backfield playa fiercer game or show more ively to prevent a touchdown. Ju t before speed. They were keyed up o n al1 six the close of the fir t half Minnesota, on an cyl inder , and then some. Powers, Morrell exchange of punt. got the ball on Iowa' and Smith made holes in the line big 30-yd. line and in five plays. sent it over enough for a coach and four, :\nd through f r a touchdown. THE MINNESOTA

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At the opening of the second half Min­ the 38-yd. line, the kick being actl1ally made n esota began to tear through the Hawkeye's from the 48-yd. line. Minnesota showed line and Rosenwald made twenty two yards her mettle then by a long return to the and Capron, a moment later, ran fifty middl of the fie ld, then making eleven even ya rd for a tOl1chd own. Again Iowa yard in two downs, then with a forward came back and got another field goal from pa 5 for forty-four yards for another touch- ALUMNI WEEKLY IS down. Iowa again came back and fought with troubles in perfecting a satisfactory pro­ debperatlon and twice threatened MInneso­ cess of handling such fuel in the past. ta's gual with drop kicks that went uncom­ Last winter a special committee of the fortably close. Minnesota then did some legi lature was appointed to investigate the of tne linest work of the game. Getting work done by Dean Babcock in the use of the baJJ on her own 35-yd. line, sent Picker­ the appropnation made two years before mg through for forty three yards, six more for experiments in briqueting. This com­ wert: added and a penalty left the baU on mittee after a thorough personal jnvesti­ Iowa's 31>-yd. line. A forward pass was gation complimented Dean Babcock upon good fur thirteen yard, right straIght over the wonderful progress made with insuf­ the center of the line, and another, to­ ficient funds. The committee found that the ward the side netted twenty two more, lignite briquets were harder than anthra­ when Ro enwald tore through the line cite coal and almost identical with anthra­ for the three yards needed for the final cite in fuel qualities and with some touchdown and score. About two minutes advantages over anthracite. The briquets befor\! the end of the game the whole ignite easily, leave little ash, and practically ~ecolld team was substituted for the first no clinkers. I t is believed that these bri­ team and they went into the game in a que" can be made, on a commercial basis, way to surprise the visitors. Time was so as to sell for $r or $1.50 le~s than an­ called before they could get a score. thracite, and the value of the by-products Minnesuta 24-Iowa 6. It was four may make it possible to reduce the price touchdown" and as many goals against materially below the figures indica ted. two field goal by Iowa. It has been The importance of the inve ·tigations may many years since the equal of O'Brien as a be judged when it i known that the state drop kicker has been seen on Northrop of North Dakota has a discovered coal area field and e\'eryone admired and heartily larger than that of the state of Penn­ cheered th\! good work which O'Brien's sylvania. 'While thi briqueting investiga­ good toc did for Iowa. tion by Dean Babcock is the mo t im­ Minne'ota was noticeably weak in pro­ portant problem at present in hand, it is tectIng the punter and hardly a punt was by 110 means the only problem which comes made during the game that did not come up for inve tigation by his department. near being blocked and once it wa blocked X orth Dakota i rich in clay of high in a place dangerously near Minnesota's grade and other mineral products which goal. mu t be investigated and exploited under The game was memorable al 0 for Iowa's the direction of his department. "ring around the rosy" shift formation. Instead of using the ordinary shift, when such a change wa desired, the whole line INTE RESTING ARTICLES BY started and ran ring around the center, re­ GRUENBERG. minding lhe onlookers of the "ring around During the past few months the Scien­ the r sy" of childhood days. The play tific American ha published several articles was not effective and if it was framed by Benjamin C. Gruenberg, '96, a teacher for the purpose of disconcerting the of biology in K ew York city school. The Gophers, it failed utterly. first of the e articles i an appreciation The vi,itors were game clear through of Henry Fairfield 0 born, America's fore­ and, while defeated, hared the honor of mo t paleontologist. which appears in the the occa ion with the victors. July 22nd number. In a econd article, published September 8th, Mr. Gruenberg VALUABLE PAPER BY DEAN discus e the "Creation of artificial life." BABCOCK. The article is a careful review of the va­ rious experiment and theories that have E. J. Babcock, '89, dean of the college had to do with the production of living of mining engineering and director of the organi m from non-living material. Mr. mining experiment stations of the Uni­ GruenberO" sho\ s that all the various ver ity of North Dakota, has is ued a very claims made in thi line and proved to complete and valuable report upon hi be unfounded and that up to date such a inve tigations of lignite coal relative to result has never been accompli hed. Biolo­ the production of gas and briquets. This gists, he say, will be low to accept the is a que tion that is of vital importance results of any experiment claiming to have to the people of his state and Mr. Bab­ produced such life. until they are ure of cock' investigations are likely to prove of all the condition that have urrounded inestimable economic value, ince it ha the experiment. o lved the problem f cheap and desirable A third article by M r. Gruenberg deals fuel supply for the state. Dean Babcock's with a clivi ' ion of the general subject of methOd of lignite briqueting. over former artificial life. that of artificial parthenogene- methods u ed, lies in the expulsion of gas is. or the making of the non-living do the and other by-products before t he lignite 'work of the living. Mr. Gruenberg re­ is bri queted. T h e pre ence of a large vol­ views the experiments that haYe been con­ lune of gas has been one of the chief ducted along thi line, with great thorough- 16 THE MINNESOTA

ness, and explains how far s uch experiments study of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist have r eally been carried and what has been church. Mrs. Betty Eldred and Paul ,J. Tbomp­ so,:, were the only attendants. D r. Gillies of­ proven. While artificial parthenogenesis fiCIa ted. has. been undoubtedly secured by some ex­ Keivin Burns, '03. Ph. D. '10, a nd Hazel V. penmenters, and nearly mature organisms Bun n e~', of San .lose, Calif., were married !la~e be.en developed by artificial processes, July 25th: IIII'. Burns holds the Martin Kellogg FellowshIp at the LIck Observatory, which re­ It IS ~ tlll an open question whether such qUIres the holder to viSit the principal astro­ o rgal11sms are c?mplete organism such as n omical. observatories of Europe and t o spend those ,rr?duced. In the natural way. As he a year 111 study at a European university. Mr. and Mrs. Burns will travel in Germany, Aus­ says- hIstologIcal examination may show tna, France, Italy and England, spending the tha t these al11mals contain the nuclear year at Bonn. framework of only one-half of the normal George "". Frankberg, Law '04, of Fergus ani~al's inheritance." Such experiment, Falls, Minn., "'as married October 18th, to Mary Cooper, of Canton, S. D. while they have failed to prove what h as .Tohn F. Sinclair, '06, Law '09, a nd Miss Gladys frequently been claimed for them yet have Phll1ips, of Ephrata, ,,'ash., were married Oc­ been fruitful in throwing lig ht upon many tnber 25th, in Montreal, Canada. Immediat ely of the problems of living matter and after the wedding. Mr. a nd Mrs. Sinclair came heredity. to Minneapolis for a few days' visit with his parents and then went to Madison, Vi'is .. where they are to live for som e time. Mr. Sinclair is to finish up his work for the legislative ref­ '07-0. B. Bjorge is living at 519 East erence bureau. ,\Then this work is finished, he expects to come to the T wi n Cities to take up 3~ St., Dulu~h , Minn. For two years Mr. the practice of law. . Bjorge was 1l1structor in mechanical draw­ Lewis A. Jones, Eng. '07', of Mitchell, S. D., ing in the M echanics Arts high school of was married to Miss Pearl Perry, daughter of St. Paul. In June, 1909, he accepted a po­ Mrs. O. H. Peny, of that city, during Septem­ ber. After a short trip to the Pacific coast, SItIOn as draftsman with the Clyde Iron they have tal{en up their residence at McGehee. Works; J anuary 1st, 1910, wa advanced to Arkansas, where Mr. J ones is In the em ploy of chief draftsman in the machinery depart­ the U. S. Reclamation Bureau. Mr. Jones still retains hi s interest in the Mo. Valley Eng. Co., m ent, and June 1st. 19II, was made me­ at Mitchell, S. D. c hanical e ngineer. Mr. Bjorge was elected Jessie F. Lockman, '08, a nd t he Reverend to Tau Beta Pi in April, 1910. ,,'illiam B. J ones were m arri ed Oct ober 18th, at La Moure, N. D .. at the home .of the bride's uncles, Robert and Da Id Lloyd. Mr. Jones Is a graduate of Lafayette coll ege, at Easton, Pa., BIRTH S. and a lso of Princeton Seminary. For the past two years he has been in charge of the Pres­ Born to Professol' and Mrs. Caswell A. Bal­ byterian Mountain church at Delaware Water iard. '94, of the Moorhead normal facul ty, a nap, Pa., where the n ewly married couple ·will daughter, Margaret, in August. be at home to friends. Born to Mr. a nd Mrs. Chas. F. Clough, 865 M. I-I. Stillman. '09, and Miss Ethel M. Tomp­ Iglehart Ave., St. Paul, Emeline Twitchell ldns were m a nied a t Austin. Minn., August Clough, June 8th. 1911 . Mr. Clough was a m em­ 28th, and are nOW at home a t the Lanier, Wash­ ber of the pharmacy ciass of 1902 a nd Mrs. ington, D. C. Mr. Stillman in the early part Clough (Helen Adams) a member of the class of the summel' complet ed a tour of inspection of 1904. of the conditions of weights and measures In Born to Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Davies, Dent. '03, the southern s tates for the Bureau of Standards a son, Norman Owen Dayles, June 25th, 1911- at Washington. and recently made a similar in­ Born to Mr. and Mrs. Barry Dibble, Barry spection in New York state. Dibble. jr.. July 20th, 1911. MIss Julia Thuet '10, and Louis Vi11laume were m arried last' Saturday morning in St. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Jones, a daughter, Lul(e's Catholic chUl'ch of St. P aul. Mr. and . A ugust 24th. Dr. Jones was a member of the 1111'S. Vi1liaume will take a wedding trip through dental cla ss .of 1908 and Mrs. Jones was Blanche the South a nd be Ht home to friends In St. Holt, '09. Paul after their r eturn. Born to Dr. a nd Mrs. Leonard J . McClung, July 5th, a da ughter, Doroth)' Frances. Mrs. McClung was Dr. Anna M. Henry, '99. Tbe PERSONALS. family address is Pattonsburg, Mo. Born to Mr. a nd Mrs. Geo. 'iV. Morey, Chern. r\ ['thur V. Brown, a former student, Is attend­ '09 a daughter, a t Washington, D. C., July 4th. ing the Univer~tty of Michigan this year. HIs Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin T. Reed, '95, a address Is 205 N. Ingalls, Ann Arbor, Mich. daughter, Ethel Pauline, September 22nd. Mr. R. . Smith, a former s tudent, is .'esldent el1- RE'ed Is h ead of the English department of the g-inee.· of the Canadian Pacific Railway Com­ norma l school of Moorhead. pan)', at Moosejaw. Sask.. Canacla. His ad­ rJre~s i~ 8 Redtand Ave. In a recent letter, Mr. Born to Dr. and Mrs. Victor E. Verne, Med. Smith bewails the fact that h wlll not be able '06. of Moorhead, a daughter in July. to see any of the football games this fall and Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. Cuyler "" ashburn wishes lhe team of 1911 the best of good for­ a daughter, October 26th. Mr. and Mrs. ViTash­ burn's tirst daughter, Muriel. was the first child tune. born to a n)' member of the class of '93. Mr. and Ex ' I-Frank B. Wilcox, who was at one Mrs. Washburn have r ecently removed from time a mem1)er of the class of 1884. and who Aberdeen, S. D., to Elk River. Minn. has been living in the West for many years, has return d to Minneapolis with hI s family and is III ing at 3117 Kenwood Pkwy. Mr. "'"!l- ox has l'etllrne,l to Mlnneapolls prj nclpally that WEDDI N GS. his hildren may havE' the opporlunity to attend John Vi'also (U. of M. Law School, '01). a the high schonl a nd the University. Mr. ',"ilco.· local attorney, and Mrs. Margaret Frances ~1I1i retains hIs intel'est In his western invest- Hildebrand, of 2606 Irving Ave. S .. were mar- menls. a nd will make frequent trips to tche 'Vest rled Weunesday evening, October 18th, at the to look urtel' those Interests. ALUM ' I WEEKLY

Ag.-George P. Grout, assistant in dairy hus­ . '9i-M.ar)' Grace Bradford, formerly of Farm ­ bandry at the agricultural department, has been ~ngton . 1S now living in thIs city. Her a ddress ~~rO:;:;~d the management of the Jean Duluth 18 2641 Garfield .A ve. , 6-01'. John ,V. Adams and family returned '94-Harry C. Cutler has been at Reno, Nev., t Ph!ladelPhia, ,eptembel' 3rd, after six for something over a year, where he has an months travel in Europe. Dr. Adams investi­ offiel' for conducting a general mining engi­ gated the management and equipment ot the neering businpss. ;\11'. Cutler was manager of chief government Yeterinary schools of Italy, th" tall Bros. lease at National during tbe year Swltzerl:tnd, Austria, Germany, Holland, Eng­ 1910, and extrar:ted nearly one million dollars land and Ireland. worth of metal. Mr. Cutler had a personal interest in the lease. '9-Kendrlck . Babcock, of the U. S. De­ partment ot Education, rep,'esented the depart­ '94, Law '96-A. T. Larson, formerly of Brain­ ment as a delegate at the Inauguration ot erd, Minn., Is now practicing law In this city. President Vincent, and made an address before He has an office in the New York Life bldJ;". the meeting of the association of state univer­ and is living at 3~28 Irving Ave. S. ' sities held in Minneapolis. Mr. Babcock has '94 :lIines-A. E. May passed through the city been appointed to a peclal pOsition In the de­ a short time ago on his way to Seattle. He was partment and finds his work exceedingly con­ accompanicd by his mother and sister and ex­ genial. About half the time he Is traveling ppct to sail from Seattle along the west visiting the vadous institutions of the country: co:]st to Indp Dgo, Mexico. lIfr. May is engineer '89-Dr. and Mrs. \\-. A. Noyes "pent the sum­ for the Guadalupe mine. mer near Frankfort, Mich., where they now '94 Law-C. W. Xey is practicing law at have a cottage which was designed and built Manila. P. I. His address Is 31 Plaza JIloraga. by Truman E. Rickard, '04. "~-ne\'. T. R. Elwell is pastor of the Bay­ '9~ .:lIed-Dr. John Lyng, who is practicing Yi('w Congregational church of eattle, Wasb. medlcme at Alexandria, attended the inaugural '9~-L\"rlia T. Lagerstrom and mother spent exercises. ten w .. ek~ during the summer traveling and '91 Eng-\\'alter A Chowen is vice-prl'.ident ,isiting friends and relatives on the Pacific of the Pacific Surety company, with offices In coa>t. from, an Dil'go to eattle. Four weeks the First ~ational Bank bldg, of San Francisco, " 'ere spl'nt at :\Iarshfield, Ore., with Miss Lager­ Calif, "'trom's brother., A. T ., '05, and C A. Lager­ '91, Law '~~-_\Ibert "'. Stacy is a candidate s!l'om :-Ii",s Lager.trom is teaching in the for sto te senator on the Repuhlican ticket. The East high school in thi city. I'lection is to bp held December 12th, and will '95 Law-Hem'y "'. Williams, who was for­ be the first state election in Arizona. TIlprl\' loc~ted at Los Angeles, is now II\'ing at '91-T. W. Stout is pastor of the Calvary :; ~O Osceola A'·e .. St. Paul. :\1ethodist church of this city. '96-Denjamin C. Gruenberg recently took '91. i\I('d '0 I-Dr. A. M. ,,'ebster and family part In a di~cussion before a joint meeting of spent their summer vacation camping In the the American SOCiety oC i'anitary and !\Ioral n"lghborhood of JIlt. Hood. The days were Proph~'laxis and the Xew York Association of 'Jlpnt in trout fishing and mountain climbing. Biolo~' Teachers. h('lcl in New YOI'k academy .\ caT,1 haR recently been receive(] by the of Jlledlcinl', October 12th. )11'. Gruenberg took Electrical Engineering department from Mr. part In the discus~ion which followed the in­ Edwar(] P. Burch, Eng. '92. Eng. '9 , lecturer troduction upon the teaching of sex in schools In electric railways, saying that he has seen the and colleges. Frederic Holtz. '94, pre",ident of n.lternating currcnt street ralh,-ay" of Prussia, the New lork .\ssociation of Biology Teachers, Bavaria, Switzerland. Italy, Au.tria IIungar~·. led the di"cu~"ion after the presentation of the Mr, Burch expect" to ,'eturn to MlnneapoJis three principal papers. ahout Nu\"emhl'r 1st. '96-Re\'. E. E. Lofstrom is still teaching '\l~ Eng-T'rofl'ssor .T. H. Gill, director of the Greek in Seabury Divinity chool, and writing ..Columhus TJ"[I.jPR ~chool. of Columbus, Ohio, Sunday chool Lessons for the American Church leports: "The attendance at the Trade l'chool ,unday School JIla£azine and Thp Young ha~ incrpased 0 I)er cpnt. The 'co-operative' hurchman He is also chaplain at St. Mary's plan Is being recplved with fayor b~' the manu­ Hall, In Faribault. fs('turl'rs. The plan gh'l's the boys the equiv­ '96-F. A. JIlaxwell ha been appOinted a mem­ alent of a high schonl education, a trade learned ber of the ,,'ashington state board of Pharmacy. In a commercial shop. and a total income of The appointment was made last Jul~ ' and runs 1.050 during thl' course. To quote Mr. F . A. for fi\'e years. )1r. r.laxwell' Spokane address JJalsey, editor of thl' American Machinist, 'Thls is ~lH Dean .\ve. plnn s~ems to more nearly fit American con­ '96-.\lice "-ebb has recently changed her .lilions thnn any that has b en proposl'd.' I JIlinneapolis address to ~~15 Pleasant Ave. hl'lIe,e Industrial or Yocational Education Is the n"xt big arl,'nnee that Is to be made in the '9'-D. A . Grt1~sendorf is supprintendent of educations I field." the public schools at Jorclan, Wnn. A report recentl~' I, ~\Ied by the school boarel of Jordan ;\fr and Mrs. F D . Calkin. (Sarlie Bonwell, Inclicates that under Mr. GrussendorC's leader­ '!13) have move(] from Louisiana to Sunnyvale, ship the chools are making excellent progress. Callr. '!13 Eng·- ·.John "'m Err has heen living in '9,-..\ nna )IacD. Hawley i teaching at En­ Yonkl'rs, . Y, fOl' the past six years. lIe glewood, • '. J. Is emplo)'erl by thE' .\merlcan Bridge 0., with 'n Law-Oro.venor P O'~eall, who was for­ offic .. ~ at 30 hurch 't., New York City. mel'l, located at SE'attle. is no'" practicing law '93·- ·l\Irs. Fl'prl Morro\\' Fling (Helen Dresser) at Los .\ngele". Calif, with offices at 709 Mer­ hw, just returned from a four months' stay In chants' Trust Compan~' bldg. Gpl'man~', Bohemia, Switzerland and Paris. '97 .\g-.\. E. Stene Is superintendent of the '~3-Geo rge Plumer :-rerrlll re igned from the l'xtpn ion department or thl' R . 1. tate colll'ge pastorate n( Hope hapel. In JI1arch. lIe spl'nt and entomologist fOI' the state board of agri­ the summer ylsitlng Chicago. le\"l~ land, Buf­ rulture. ACt .. Stpne finds that while his work falo, Hoch!'"t"r, Syracuse, Albany, :-lew Yorl<, Is H'T)' Inter sting it is increasing steadily, BrooklYn ond 1,0ston, gtudylng su cl?ssful dn\\'n­ the chief cllfficulty being to s('cure funds to town chUl"Ch work. He has heen engaged as ('arr, it ,)n properl\' and to the best ad\'antage. tl'mporary pa.tor for the months of Octobl'r and '\I. Law-Chari"" Elmquist, of the state rail­ ~ovemher at the Forl'st Height" Congregational l'l'lad anll ,yarE"hou~ commission, recently vi ited church nf this clly. the Bureau of ~tan,lnrtl , ,\\'a.hlngton. D. .. ,\ rd"lIa Bish",p has entered the t'nh'erslt)' this in the inter~sb of the commis ion to which y ar as a SOl'lIomor",. ShE' Is living at the home the ('nfnreement of the npw law on Inspection of h I' hrother, E . C. Bisbee. '9~. of weights anu measures has been assigned. 18 THE MINNESOTA

. '9 -Mr. and Mrs. ,Yo C. Gerdsen, of Wash­ '01, Eng '03-Roy R. Ireland is Hving at 217 Ington, D. C., with their two boys, spent the South Clinton St., East Orange, N. J. lIe is summer on the shores of Lakes Auborn and ,,; th the \Yestern Electric 0., InN ew York Zumbra. City. '98-Mrs. B. G. Knight (Annabel Beach), of PleasantvIlle, N. Y., is spending some weeks '01,. Law '03-0. A. Lende, who was formerly in the \\'est, Yisiting friends in Minneapolis practlcmg law at Marshall, Minn., is now with and Faribault. Bert Knight, '98, is with the J. N. Johnson, of Canby, 1\1lnn. Mr. Lende \'is­ Aeolian. Piano-Pianola Co., of New York City, ited the UniverSity and took part in the Inau­ anu IS In charge of theil' art work. gural procession. '98-1\1r. and Mrs. H. M. Stanford have re­ 'OJ-E. C. Olsgard was a member of the cently movec\ from Moorhead to Evanston, Ill. House of R presentatlves of North Dakota and Their ad(lre~s is 2411 Lincoln St. Mr. Stanford served as chairman of the committee on educa­ has resigned his posi tion in the department of tion. 1\lr. Olsganl Is cashier of the State Bank natural sciences at the Moorhead normal, and of McVille. is associated with the Welles Publishing Co., wilh offices at 537 South Dearborn St., Chi­ '01 lIlines-E. V. Smith is with the American cago. Bridge Co. in th~ir office at Salt Lake ity, Utah. :\11'. Smith recently secured a million­ '99 Mell-Anna M. Agnew is connected with dollar contract for his cumpany for a large hotel the Long Island State Hospital, at Brooklyn, in Salt Lake City, N. Y. Dr. Agnew is among the thousands of alumni who bewails the fact that she is too far '01 Mines-Hoval A. Smith Is one of the Re­ from the Unh'ersity to take an active part in pulJltcan canulda les for the office of U. S. malf the Big EIght D lon '00) have left the normal school at conference, anu thlnl

'03 Law-Louis Nash is president of the St, '06-Miss Martha p, Hazzard is p rincipal of Paul Humane Society, Minnesota State Elks the Wabasha high school for the fourth year association, St. Paul Soccer football club the and is meeting with great success. _ n.ight law class of 1902 of the University'; for '06 Eng-Robert '1', Hubbard has recently SIX years he has been county commissioner of 'Ramsay county, anf! for fourteen years man­ changed his address from Minidoka, Idaho, to ager of Nicoll The Tailor, Inc. 782 So. Uobert St., St. Paul. '03-Nelle Olson, librarian of the Mayville, '06 Mines-Paul S. Kurtzman is located at Mc­ N. D., Normal, is a member of the executive Kinley, Minn. committee of the stale library board of North 'Ot>--Alice Pomeroy, who has been teaching Dalwta. .at New Richland for several years is at her '03-Flol-ence Pel-ry is teaching in the John A. home in Minneapolis this year. ' Johnson high schoo!, of St. Paul. This build­ '06--Charlotte H. Sanborn is beginning her i.ng, whi~h was recently completed, Is a splen­ thIrd year's work in the high school of North­ wd specImen of a well-built and well-equipped field. Minn., where she is teaching Latin. Miss huilding. About half of the members of the Sanborn finds her work in the fine new building faculty are graduates Or graduate stUdents of which has just been completed, exceedingly in­ the University of Minnesota. tel'cslIng and pleasant. This school has recentl~ · '04 Law-Fred A. Alexander Is located at op ned three new departments, those of domes-­ Owatonna, Minn., an] serving his second term tic science, agriculture and normal work. as county attorney of Steele county. He also '06, Med '09-Dr. Chas. S. Sutton has been enjoys a lucra tive ciy;] practice. practicing at . t. Cloud since he left St. Barna­ ' 04 Law-Thomas E. Grady has removed from bas hospital in June, 1910. He already enjo.s Chippewa Falls, ,ns., to North Yakima, Wash. an excellent practice, - ·O! Eng-John Howatt, who is in the United '06-Anna 111. \\bitney is teaching matbemat­ States seryice in the Federal Building, in Chi­ ics in the high school at North Yakima. cago, called at the electrical engineering de­ '06 Eng-Fred E. Wiesner has recently partment la, t weel<. He was on his way to changed his address to ,906 Central Ave., Grea't ~tevens POint, ,,-is., to look after a government Falls, Mont. He is in the engineering depart­ building which is being put UP at that place. ment of the Great Northern railway, with '04, :\fed '07-Dr E A. Loomis had charge of headquarters at Great Falls. thp practi~ .. of Dr.• \. 111. ,,'eb tel', of Portland, 'OS-Yesta ,Yilliams is teaching shorthand and while he was on his vacation thiE summer. bookl

'07 Chern-E. V. Manuel Is with the United States Glue Co., at MII\\"aukee, ,Vis. His ad­ '09 Ag-~-\Iden A. Potter spent the past sum­ dress Is 199 Pleasant St. mer travehng for the department Of agriculture un cereal dlijease work In LOUisiana Texas '07~Clara E. Ross is teaching English and Kansas, Minnesota and the Dakotas. ifr. Pot: German In the SI,;,epy Eye high school. This Is ter WIll spend the winter In ,,'ashlngton. He her second year In that position. expects his work of the coming summer will bring him to Minnesota for most of the time. '07. La~-M. J. Van Vorst spent the summer Part of last year Mr. Polter was tenor soloist visItIng In Minnesota and other eastern points. In the First Congl'egatlonal church In Wash- He has r!lturned. to White Salmon, Wash., Ington. ' w~ere !,e IS assoCIated In the practice ot law wIth". R. ,Veils and F. E. Flynn, '07. They '09 Eng-Archer R. Robison Is with the Great Falls Power Co .. of Butte and Great Falls with ~;~h!~~~ engaged in the development of a large offlces at 634 Phoenix Bldg., Butte, Mont'. '09 Eng-Howard Starrett Is with the Fair­ . 'OS-Ethel Cosgrove is supervisor of drawing mont l\lachine Co., at Fall'mont, Minn. In San Juan, P. R. '09 Chern-Faith Sterling Is doing graduate 'OS-Fay Cuzner is teaching In the high school work at Leland Stanford University this year. at Appleton this year. '09-Sears Thomson Is spending his last yeal' '08 Eng-A. N. Dalllmore has changed his ad­ as a .stude~t at the Union Theological Seminary, dress from Denver, Colo., to Pun tenney, Ariz. of ~ew York Cit}'. He Is also finishing his 'OS-Juanita Day is In Rio Piedras, P. R. gl aduate work at Columbia, and expects to get '08 Eng-H. Cole Estep Is engineering editor I he degree oC master oC arts next June. of the Iron Trade Review, with offices at 132S '09-Thomas H. Uzzell spent the summer in :Monadnock Bldg., Chicago. southern nussia. He Is now back at Sl. Peters­ '08 Law-Casslus E. Gates has recently burg. changed his Seattle address to 533 32nd Ave. S. '09-H. C. Reid visited H . B. Canol! of EI­ 'OS-Lorena Hopkins is living at the Kenne­ ;ensburg, "'ash., about the first of October b~c Hotel, Long BeaCh, Calif. Miss Hopkins while on a business trip to Portland, Ore. ' WIll make her home hereafter in California. She '10 Forestr~'-Donald R. Brewster has been formerly lived at Chinook, Mont. hal'lng a varied expel"lence with the U. S. For­ '08 Dent-Joseph Johnson has been practicing est Sel'vice, haYing been aSsigned to five dif­ his profession in St. Paul since gradUation. He fer~nt national fores ts In North and South Dalwta, J\Iontana and Idaho since graduating. ~a~~cated at Milton and Selby avenues, St. He has rpcently beE'n promoted to take charge of the new fores t (>xperlment station which Is 'OS-Jessie M. Marsh is living at 1563 " 'ash- being established at Priest River, Idaho, wherp ington Ave., Ogden, Utah. important inve~tlgalions on forest growth ami 'Og-Mabel F. Millie i~ located at Cayncos, management will be carried on. Mrs, Brew­ alif. ster (Anna Allyn, 'Oil) 1,'!Il jOin him at Priest '0 ---.Harriet D. Moore is teaching eighth and River, in November, as soon as the station ninth grades at Montain Iron, Minn. buildings al'e completed. 'OS-A. A. Pickler is publisher of the Faulk­ 'lO-Martha 111 Brinsmaid Is spending h"r sec­ ton Advocate, the official paper of Faulkton ond yeal' as prinCipal of the Rushford high county, S. D. school anl1 teacher of English and German. 'OS-H. C. St(me is in the science depart­ '10-1Ilab(>1 Holt Is In the offlce oC the state ment of the high school at Tracy, Minn. hoard of h(>alth at the State Capitol, In St. '09 Ag-H. B. Carroll is teller in the Bank Paul. of Ellensburg, "'ash. '10-(' E. Bus\\"(>ll is teaching science In th" '09-Laura G. Franklin has gone to Crooks­ "'indom Institute, at 1Ilonteyldeo, lIfinn. ton as pr!'ceptr('ss of the ladles dormitory of '10 Law-Sebaltl 1.. heroske has severed his the University agricultural school located at connection with the Legal department or th" that place. Southern Pacific R R. 0 .. and has entered '09 IGng- Chas. E. I {olmgren, who has been L1pon the private prnclice of the law, with offlce~ teaching in the high school at Fairmont, Minn., at 331-2 Douglas Bldg., Los Ang(>les, Calif. for the past two years, has returned to lI1inne­ '10-Fanlngton Dani(>ls has been awarded th(> apolis. He Is now with the Minneapolis Steel AU"!tin Teaching Fellowship, at Harvard Unil'er­ & Machinery Co. slty. He is living at 23 Conant JIall, am­ '09-Estelia Louise Jensen is assisting in the lJridg(>, Mass. (lepartment oC botany and doing graduate worlc Ex '10 Law-\\'. "r. Dal'is Is employed In the this year. U. S. R. S. at Easton, '\'a~h. '09-Dagny Knutson is teaching in the Colum­ 'JO-Vlna K. Downey is tenchlng phYSics and bia county norma l, at Columbus, Wis. mathematics at Luverne, Minn., this year. '09-V. n. Manning Is secretary of the asso­ 'lO-E~tella Elk~ Is teaching in the high school ciated charities, of Jacksonville, Fla., and also at Appleton this year. secretary of a statewide organization which '10--Nevada Evans Is doing graduate work at is wOI'I,ing for the social and economic uplift the Univprslty this y(>ar. nf the whole state. Mr. Manning was formerly '10 Eng-G~orge 111. Garen Is with the United connected with the associated charities of Min­ State" Engineers, U. S. Army, stationed for a neapoliS, and has b(>en engaged In worlc In Flor­ few months at "'Innlhll:oshlsh Dam, Bena, ida for the past two years. Mlnn .. on construction work. '09-George Mecklenburg who has been at '10 La"·-C. l' Raa"! Is practicing law In th(> North Grafton, Mass., Is now located at Valier, Chamber of ommerce Bldg., of Portland, Orc. Mont. lIe Is In partnership with L. C. Mackay, under '09 Med-Dr. H . F. Peterson announces that thp fit'm name oC Ilaas &; Mackny. In a recent In order to avoid confusion arising from the use Jetter, Mr. Hans says tI.lat recently there was of his present name he has had It changed to a meeting of formpr 1I11llnesolnns held at th(> n. P . LinneI'. nr. Llnner's offlce address Is Commercial Club of Portland, allendec1 hy o~'er 41,,9 " -ashlngton Ave. N. fil'!' hunllred people. DI·. A. 111. Webster, nl. '09-0. B. Poore- is in charge of manual traln­ '04 ~Iecl, preslclcnt of the Oregon Alumni As­ In~ in the high school of Aurora, Minn. sociation or the University, made a short talk, and 111,·. nan~ waR elected JlrRt .I'lce-pr sldent '09 Eng-W. S .•Viliams has returned to Min­ of the 1IIlnnO?sota Society of Oregon. There a~(> n(>apolis, wher(> he is with the Wabash Scre.en oyel' thr(>(> hunl1red charter members of th,s & Door Co. Mr. and Mrs. ,VllIlams are rejoIc­ Ing over a son who arrived last August. society. 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'lD-Agnes S. Bryan Is teachIng at Grand Rap­ 'll-Margaret Houck is teaching at Zum­ i<:l~, MInn. brota, Minn. 'lO-Edward W. Leach Is located at Ashburn, 'Il-Anne Hull, who is teaching in Porto Rico, Mo. is located at Toa Baja, Porto Rico. 'lO-Helen M. Lydon is teaching at Monterey, 'U-Albert Jacobson is located at Jewell, Ia. Minn. 'Il Eng-I. Kvitrud is in the employ of the '10 l\Ied~C. Ulysses Moore is practicing med­ Board of Park Commissioners of the city of Icine at Carthage, S. D. ",Iinneal'oJis. His home address is 2001 7th St. 'lO-Lillian Murseth is teaching in the high S. school at Waterville, MInn. ' 11-Mlldred Merriman is teaching the fifth 'lO-Hannah A. Nutter is located at Milbank, and sixth grades in the Alexandra school, of S. D. Vancou\'er, B. C. She is enjoying her work yery mUCh, her only regret is that she was un­ 'IO-S. H. Smith is city engineer of the city able to tall'sity th;8 yeal·. Minn. 22 THE M1 NESOTA

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'o6-E. C. J ohnson has just returned 'oS Eng.-Oscar ]. Bergoust is assistant from a three months' official trip through engineer on the hydrographic survey at the middle west in prosecution of the cer­ Keremeos, B. C. eal disease work of the United States de­ '08-Jennie G. Craven is teaching at partment of agriculture. The tnp was Hutchinson, Minn., this year. Her address made via New York state and the Great is Box 431. Lakes, Duluth and St. Paul, and then to the Dakotas, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, '08-Jessie L. Danielson is teaching Eng­ and back to Washington, D. C. Mr. John­ lish in the Lisbon, N. D., high school. ~on spent si* weeks at the University 'oS-Florence S. Gr'me is teaching math­ Farm in investigations of grain diseases. ematics and science again this year in the Here the department of agriculture and Henning high school. the division of botany and plant pathology of the Minnesota Aricultural College are 'oS Law-A. U. Hamrum has been locat­ ed at Fairfax, Minn., for the past two carrying on extensive co-operative inve~­ tigation in grain diseases and the breeding years engaged in the practice of law. Mr. Hanuum is associated with A. V. Rieke of disea e-resi tant varieties of grain. Co­ under the firm name of Rieke & Hamrum. operative work of a similar nature was also commenced this summer at the Kan­ '08-]. E. Lunn is superintendent of sa Experiment station. At Amarillo, Tex­ schools at Biwabik, Minn. as, Mr. Johnson spent several days in In­ 'oS-Robert L. Meech is treasurer of the ve5tigations of diseases of sorghums and Mandan Mercantile Company with the main made a two weeks' stop in Louisiana in office at 450 Security Bank Bldg., this city. research on diseases of rice. Mrs. John- 'oS Eng.-E. F. Norelius is with the Holt on accompanied her husband on the trip Caterpillar Company of Peoria, Ill. His and they are now back at Washington, D. work is in designing building gasoline trac­ . Their address is J467 Irving St. N. W., tion engines. Apartment 3. 'oS, '10.-]' Russell Smith became asso­ 'o6-Harriet Kummerer begins her sec­ ciated with the firm 'of Keith, Evans, ond year at Grand Rapids as teacher 'of .Thompson & Fairchild, attorneys at law, mathematics and German. on the fir t day of September. The firm 'oO-Sidney Pattee is teaching Latin in has offices at 509-14 Loan & Trust Dldg. the Lake City high school this year. 'o8.-Beatrice 1. Williams is teachin g '06 Eng.-W. A. Zimmer is in the traffic English in the Luverne high school this department of the Nebraska Telephone year. Last year she was at Mapleton. Co., Omaha. His city address is care Y. M. C. A. '07 Mines-Edgar W . Smith is located at OREGON. Goldfield. via Mesa, Ariz. He is in charge of the Mammoth Mine at that place. He HARRY FELBERBAUM '041. says that although he may be in a way Cou nselor and Attorn e y at L a w 311 Yeon B ldg. out of the world he is still interested in General Practice Portland, Oregon what is going on at the old University. '07-Hannah Sparks is teaching in Rapid WISCONSIN. Center, S. D. SMITH & OAKES. '07 Eng.-C. A. Swenson is now em­ II. II. SmIth & Geo. Oakes, '92. ployed by a structural steel firm in Winni­ New nlchmond, WIs. peg. !lIumni ~r ofessionaI IDirector~ This directory is published for the purpose of affording a convenient guide to Minnesota Alumni of the various professions, who may wish to secure reliable correspondents of the same profession to transact business at a distance, or of a special professional character. It is distinctly an intra-professional directory. Alumni of all professions, who, by reason of specialty or location are in a position to be of service to Alumni of the the same profession, are invited to place their cards in the directory. Professional cards in this directory are classified alphabetically by states, alphabetically by cities within the states, and the names of alumni ( or firms ) in each city are likewise alphabetically arranged. The price of cards is six dollars a year. This includes a free subscription to the weekly.

CALIFORNIA. MISSOURI. GEORGE L. KEEFER '92, '951. C. A. CHAPMAN, LAW '98. Attorney and CounseJlor at Law 412-413 Currier Building. Los Angeles, Cal. Vice Pres. Chas E . Walters Co., Council Bluffs. After sixteen years practice now makes a spec- Vice Pres. "alters Matchette Co., Kansas City. laity of legal advice by mail. Buys and Sells Banks E,-erywhere Private office, 223 Dwight Bldg. 1006 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, U . S. A. MINNESOTA. M. B. DAViDSON, 1892. HUDSON & HUDSON 4-5-6, 1st Nat. Ban), Bldg., Sanford H . Hudson Joplin, Mo Irving M. Hudson, '06, '091. Swift County Bank Bldg., Denson, Minn. MONTANA. GOTHFRED S. SWANSON '071, Attorney at Law. General Practice. FRANK ARNOLD 206 Iron Exchange. BraInerd, lI1inn. Attorney at La,,', Room 1 Thompson Block, JOHNSON & LENDE Lh'ingston, 1I10ntana. J. N . Johnson O. A. Lende ' 01, '03. Canby, lI1innesota. NEVADA. THOMAS E. KEPN ER, ARTHUR B. CHURCH, '961. Lawyer, Bank of Long Prairie Bldg., 19 Gazette Bldg. • Reno, Nevada. Long Prairie, Minn.

DODGE & WEBBER NORTH DAKOTA. Fred B. Dodge, larence A. \Vebber, '931. C. S. BUCK 916 New York Life Bldg., Attorney at Law lI1inneapolis, lI11nn. White & Henderson Bldg., Jamestown, N . D. FRED NASON FURBER, ' 041. Attorn y and Counseior at Law. HERMAN WINTERER, Ex,'83, 401 Minn. Loan & Trust B!dg., Minneapolis, 1I11nn. LAWYER President 1st National Bank John Harrison, '99. C. A. Merritt. VaJley City, North Dakota HARRISON & MERRITT. Member Supreme Court, U. S. General Practice Insurance. Send us your Fire, Automobile and Liability Insurance. Agents wanted in IlIinne ota. SOUTH DAKOTA. 604-6 New York Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. M. E. CULHANE. Brookings, S. D. G. A. WiLL, '961. General Law Prac tice. ollections handled 708 Andrus Building, ~rompllY at .A urora, Brue , BUShnell, Elkton, Minneapolis, Minn. inai, Yolga. 'While and Brookings.

C. E. ,,"-arne,', '05-'071. D. L . Stine, '061. WASHINGTON. WAR'NER & STINE FRANK D. DAViS ra;;-7 -9 International Bldg., Minneapolis. lI!inn. Attorney at Law. Knight Blo k Puyallup, "'ashinglon. WASHINGTON YALE, '96, LAW '98. 820-4 ccurily Bank Bldg. , M. J, LUBY, Minneapolis, Minn. Academic '98, Law '02. 701, 702 Hutton Bldg., Spokane, "'ash . . B. Schmidt, 1901 Edw. A. \I'aters, G. L. '05 Phone N. W. ~edar 2~32 CASSIUS E. GATES SCHMIDT &. WATERS Attorney at Law Attorneys at Law. Centr al Building. 324 Globe Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. Seattle, " -ash. Have you eVer examined a Stein way Soul?

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COLLEGE OF MED ICINE AND Patient:-. were fir~t a dmitted ro the nell SURGERY 11O -pltal September 19th, and w look up­ on thi ' date a~ a red letter day ill the The material in thi departl1lent ha · bet:n hi tory of the college uf medicine and ur­ ... dited by Dr. E . R. Hare, Met1. '00, for gery. the alumnI ident, Earle R. Hare. 1linneap Ii . . bt vice ' pre ident. Chas. \V. Bray, Biwa­ The marriage of Dr. Ray Robert bik. 2nd VIce pre- ident, John . Holbrook, Knight, '05. of Minneapolis. to Grace Ellen Morris. of Salina, Kan-a ~ , occurred Au­ i'"lankato. ecretary & treasurer, Herbert \\' . Jones, Minneapolis. crust 31st, at alina. Dr. and 11r:. Knight reside in Minneapolis. 'vVe arc plea cd to note the progress now Dr. Guy A. Grafton. '99, of Hayward. making in th" erection f Millard hall. \~ ' isconsin. died in August as the result of antl the In titute of Anatomy. on the medi­ injuries received in an automobile accident. cal portion of the new campus. The old Dr. Edwin Ray HUJ11i - ton, '03, of \\'orth­ Millard hall is to be occupied by the Col· lege of pharmacy, and the present hall ington, Minn., died recently. following an of medical sciences by the college of den­ attack of lohar pneumonia. tistry. Dr. Geo. F. Dr~\\'. '00, has sold his prac­ tice at Cary. :\. D .. and will spend a year The opening of Elliot Memorial hospital in _pecial clinic at Tulane L nil'ersitY. Xell in eptember lao t marks ne of the 1110,t rleans. La. • . important el'enls in the development of th' 1Jni\'ersjty of Minnesota, and e\'en NEW APPOINTMENTS IN THE more of the stat it elL \\'hilst primarily COLLEGE. it ohject is to extend opportunities for medic~1 teaching lind re~ arch "ith the .\t the meeting' of the board of regent, 1l1timat betterment of all the people of held June ,th, the following appointment the State, it ba~ the immediate cff ct of \yerc confirmed. restor ing to activity and happiness th ' e Robert B. Gibson. Ph.D., Yale. as assis­ \l'h by rea. on f their ickness :HC a ant prokssor in physiologic chemistry. rharge upon th er. 'onlinuec1 on page 6. 06-Lucilc 'Vay who tallght in the 'Vest '09·-Nanda M. Berger is teaching in t he high school la t year is not teaching this high school at Hutchinson, Minn., this year. he pent three weeks thi fall 111 year. coaching the dramatic organizati on of 'I I-Ruth S. Lee is teaching 111 the high X o rthfield, Minn., for a production of school at "W alker, Minn. an d i al. 0 a sist­ ant p·rincipal. "Poclunk Po t Office." This play, which 'II-Marguerite J. Millar i a istant \Va ' put 011 by the citizens of orthfield, principal at 'Velcome and teaches Eng­ proved a great succe both fina nciall y and Ii hand cience. arti tic ally and netted over $175 for the 'II-Louana Phelps i teachin charge of the domes­ tic cience department be ides teaching '08-:-Elizabeth C. Wolfe is teaching in Engli h, Latin and hi tory. th~ hig h school at Pelican Rapids, Minn. "Bill" Burris, a former student of the thiS year. Last year she was at Adrian. chool of mines, i now manager of the 'o9-Myrtle Bardsley who has been Pacific oast Realty Co., with headquar­ located a t Akeley has removed to Cul­ ters at 618 Trust and Saving Bldg., L os bert on, Mont. Angele , Calif.

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