, 1897-10-30
.S0NBlgRYK KIND WORDS
FROM EDITOR CRAWFORD OF THE
BRILLIANT SARATOGA
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A Glowing Tribute 10 Wyoming's Uni
versity-Each Professor Is a Spe-
cialist in HIS Particular Line
President Graves Good Work-Not
Looking for Office.

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The Following from the pen or thu
aSLe editor Of Gle Saratoga Sun will b.
read wiki interest by the people Of tn,
Gem City
with homes and crowned by a state in.
stieution. the Wyoming university, o
which We age all beginning to take suct
pride. 1 came down here with the in,
~tent:on O. giving the faculty some ad.
vice and instruction, but | couldn't geI
them all tcgther in one corner at one
time, and after | had been here a day
| came to the conclusion that they were
doing fairly we'll, and when | got ready
10 leave | was happy in the conscious
ness that | had not been given an oppor.
unity TO show how little I knew abou;
running a college. These people are de,
cetving; when you first mees them they
just seem like plain. ordinary very day
people, and you tackle them with conf.
dence, sure you can be of benefit to
them. but you will want somebody to
help you lei go before long. Each one
is, a specialist in his or her line and
very much doubt II a more able set o:
men and women can 10 found in the
west. l say this with sorrow and regret,
but | am here 10 tell the truth.
President Graves is doing a fine work.
He is from Boston, bur that must not
be laid up against h!m-he cant help
that now. From rhis on he will be
from Wyuming-and very glad OF it. He
has, in the past year. done sCme mission.
any work throughout Wyoming. and the
result is over $50 new students from the
various parts Of the state, bright, hand
some girls and manly boys, in whom the
factulty. strange to say, seem to take
an absorbing interest and watch over
them mentally, morally and physically,
with a breeding solicitude, which leaves
the impression, somehow, that the
youngsters are just as safe here as I'M
der there own roos-tree. President
Graves is an odd man, just like the rest
.of4us.. For example, he loves only the
un.versity-and his wife. He goes about
his work with a singleness OF purpose
chat is amazing. So Ear as | have been
abe to learn he has NO senatorial ambi-
tion whatever: don't wan to be COVER
nor nor constable, nor anything, but
just president Of the university. and to
make the institution a power for good
in educating our youth. Last summer
he spent nearly every minu,e Of his va,
cation in palatial stage coaches, and
buckboards, getting a little sleep here
and snapehing a bite there, making
speeches for the university, and talking
university until even the stage drivers
Interested. He accomplished
wonders. Never has there been so much
interest as now, and neve such a class
of earnest, stuli5us, indutrieus. we'll
behaved students as now daily flock
al Uuih Ut ithlIti DIOit-SolS IA nat
really admirable institution. 1t does
ones heart good to see the work they
are doing. and | really don't think I
could do the work better myself.
The boys have a boarding club which
numbers about thirty students. and the
cost per month is 81 each. They have
rooms with families in the city. The
girls get board and lodging together and
an are nicely and comfortably situated.
for all these people was by no means a
light one. and fell mainly on the should
ders OF Miss Grace Raymond Hebird,
one OF the university regents and the
secretary CT the board, who is also the
university librarian. Realizing that one
Of the mos necessary elements of sue
cess would be the securing of good com
Portable homes, she fooled away her en-
tire summer vacation going from house
10 house. hunting up places and writing
TO che students and arranging FOR them
20 come. and all this besides her other
many and ardurous duties. In this la
boricns work she has Travelled from 50
TO rs miles on the Laramie streets. To
be sure, she had a wheel. but that was
a necessity; for the city council threat
ened to prosecute her FOR wearing out
the sidewalks, so she was driven to the
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