Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-13
MEMORIAL |O SRA[F[R.
s. q. l. Alumni Talking Of Pipe
Organ as Memorial to Late
President.
Commencements Of All Departments
to Occur at the Same Time
Hereafter.
Final "Exams." Not to Count For
ch-English Department to
Be Strengthened

MuCu"CuSllSuaO aOepdItlE0ut w
Be Strengthened.
Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, June 13.-The faculty and
alumni of the State. University feel that
they would like to set up in Iowa City,
preferably in the university, some suit
able memorial of the late president.
Charles A. Schaefer. Various things
have been proposed, but the best sug-
gestion thus far came. it is understood.
from President MacLean, and has been
favorably received wherever it has been
mentioned. His idea is that the friends
of President Schaefer shall give 10 the
university a magnificent pipe organ to I
be placed in the new assembly hall I
when it is completed. The tenth of |
mill tax, which was continued by the
last legislature for five years more, will
provide this greatest present need With
in two or three years. pipe organ
suitable for this purpose and of quail
lity sufficiently fine to fully express the
Hove and veneration of the students and
faculty for the late president would cost
$4,000 or $4,000. The interest of the
alumni in the university was never as
great as it Is now, and when this propo-
sition is put in definite form 1t is be-
ilieved it will receive a generous response
4 thruout the state. 1t has been quietly
\ discussed in Iowa City, and several
members OF the faculty have said that
/ they would be glad to give 500 each for
4 this purpose. This is the first public
mention of the idea, and members of the
/ alumni will undoubtedly take occasion
to say what they think of it.
$50
| One of the changes inaugurated by the
slregents at their last meeting was to pro-
4 vide that In the future diplomas. which
|are now signed by members of the fac
|ulty and by all the members of the
4 board Of regents, shall be signed only
Iby the president and secretary Of the
university and by the governor of the
I state and the dean of the school to
a which the recipient OF the degree be-
longs The regents spent an entire
i half day last week in designing the Dip
4 Tomas, and the job was not finished
4 then. Another change that will be
! adopted is to have all the commence
ments together at one time, instead of
having the cOllegiate, law and dental
commandments separately on different
II days as the custom now iS AT present
lit is necessary to do this. because there
lis no hall in Iowa City that Mould ac-
= at.commodate all the graduates of all the
a -sI.departments When the new assembly
tIhallsis completed. it will furnish the
necessary accommodations for joint
| commencement, which will be a saving
2 of time and energy and will be quite
: satisfactory in every way. This plan
L Ehas been followed in the University of
I Michigan for number of years.
. The reduction of the relative import
; lance of final examinations as test OF
: what the student knows is one of the
t most hopeful changes in university
: management. That is to say. professors
r are much more in the habit of stopping
: to think what the students work has
e been during the year, when liking ms
$ standing at the end of the year or ths
y end OF the term. The student is not re,
8 quired as much as he used 10 be to Ven
e lture Whole scholastic fortune upon oEs
Hist of questioIs He gets credit for th'
Igood work he has done in the clas:
room. even If lie should happen TO fal
|down for some reason or other whe1
rl
,ination. Dean Hutchins of the UniNer
|sity of Michigan. who is generally ad
mitted TO be one of the strongest ant
most practical men in any university il
America says that he follows this rule
altho h. is not willing to admit that tn
GcgG student Very often nas--S !. Ner.
poor examination. He believes in TIL
stimulus OF the final examination. bu
does not require that the student shall
sink OF swim by this one supreme ef
! : fort.
Y. The English department of the low
Is State University has given the regent
n. a great deal Of trouble at ditferen
% Iatimes They have had some SAD eS
'e lperiences With it. There have been NOR
IS failures and disappointments there tina
I'd in any other department of the univer
d, sity. Changes have been numerous an
lie rapid, but now it is thought to be in
4 lbetter and more harmonious conditio
n, than ever before. The resignation {
n, Professor Reeves, which was suddenly
m altro not perhaps unexpectedly. ten
Id dered at the recent meeting OF the nc
]" gents, clears the atmosphere and ii
r. sures perfect understanding and hal
u mony in the department Professt
v, Ansley, who came TO Iowa from IT
X University of Nebraska, is the head PR
" fessor and is recognized upon all side
as man eminently fitted to lead tn
Important work which has been neslec
ed in the past. If President MacLea
had any pet in the university it wou
- be the English department, for this h;
s. been his life specially, and Profess
IN Ansley is a close personal friend of hi
Nh 1t was in this work in the University
re Minnesota that President MacLean a
en- tracted attention to himself He no
ne brings to Iowa another of his uId ass
ne ciates. Miss Young, Of the English d
partment of the University of MINES
We ta. With strong corps of instructo
'ip and assistant professors. the Engli'
SO department of the University of Iowa
~ certain to take in the near future t
I'M rank it should have among the unive
'r- stiles of the west.
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