Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-16
NE IOWA university | !
a.
a Condition Of General Hsalthfnl-
ness Prevails a1the Big Educa-
tienal Institution.
Many Improvements in the Way
Of New Structures and
Alternatives
New Collegiate Building Rapidly
Nearing Complet Library
Building Needed
,in,es-eRnublican.


Des Moines, Oct. 16-A condition Of
general healthfulness prevails at the
state university. The campus is q busy
place in many respects. There are im-S
provements within and improvements
without. The work on the new build-
Ing is now progressing satisfactorily,
altho it has been found necessary to
keep very close watch on the con-
tractors to prevent the use OF inferior
materials not up to specifications. One
Of the best business strokes the regents
ever did was to provide for the building
OF q central heating plant which will
heat all the buildings on the main
campus. and later on will heat the
medical building also. This will effect |
a large saving, doing away with half |
dozen separate heating plants and |
4 greatly reducing the number Of ems
ployes required for this purpose. This
plant is now in course Of construction
and 1t will be ready before many weeks.
Some one in commenting upon the
opening Of the university said: You
4 see, the university didn't open with
4 1900 students as expected" The fact Is
that no such number was expected. II
Il such an increase had been made 1t
A would have been very unfortunate, be-
4 cause the students could not have been
4 adequately accommodated at present
j and they would have been dissatisfied.
I The university is having normal,
Ihealthy growth. 1t was known that the
buildings at present We're not sufficient
to accommodate many new students
and this prevented some from coming.
s The increase will be from 10 to i3 per
cent and these can be accommodated,
altho they are badly crowded.
!, I'VE hope to have the new building
!, ready for use in the spring term, said
: President MacLean. The contract
I calls for its completion by the 18th of
December and the interior finishing
s and furnishing must be done after that.
!. { 4 The time Was a1tended by the regents
!, and the contractors now say that they
= will surely turn 1t over to us by the LIST
q of January. We must have 1t ready for
q the spring term SO that students will
see what magnificent building 1t is
3 and how well suited for the purposes
J for which it is designed. We want them
: to go home and tell their friends about
y it, because we can't care of a great
+ many more students next year. We
le II will be ready for them and we want
le every prospective student in Iowa to
s know about 1t. am we'll satisfied with
'e the growth we are having now. More
e than this would have embarrassed US.
Is Il am very much gratified by the re-
20 suit of the raising of the standard II
~ the law department.. 1t has been sex'
y pected that the attendance in the Law
~ department would decrease this yea
y because the studnts entering now mus
= put in three years, but we have had al
:, Increase in the law department, never
~ theless. find students are quite will
= ing TO devote the additional year to
more thorough preparation. 1t IS onl
- occasionally we find one who is dlsap
"a pointed and wants TO get along VII
= the two years course An amusin
!. thing happened the other day when
-. young man came here from Wiseonsi
: to get away from three years rs
"a uuirement in that state, which has jus
~ been established He had not heard
81 the change in the Iowa law and ha
IN planned to come here and in Two yeal
Nv be admitted to practice. He was ve1
- G nlucn gaSlOIlstltu Nt->'
all when ne lound on arfisii's a1ss
air would take him three years. He aske
Where can / go? told him i
i. couldn't go to Illinois or to Mach;ga
all or to Minnesota, or even to Missouri
4 ~ because they all had three year
az courses now He wanted to know if
ion couldn't go to Nebraska and told nj
by that he could; that Nebraska would ]
,b- him in now, altho they expect TO put
tho the three years course in that sta
ok. when the legislature meets next tin
his So we passed him on to Nebraska. BE
did ter than this is the spirit shown by
IAN I.young man l met down in southwes
ger .ern Iowa the other day. He said
ad- |me:#I understand you require a ,hr
ry- years course in the law departing
now told him we did and expect
that he would complain about IT. b
no. he said: j am glad of 1t. l wa
the best there is, and next year i 9
ON ON coming to enter the Law school
sll When the new collegiate building.
isne ~. completed and occupied there Will 81
ipts' be the most urgent need for buildif
VS. at the university. This new buildi
accommodates only what is known
~. ~. the humanities, or the literary depa
w. w. Iment, the college of letters. Tie !
department Will have more room WI
,,a ,oa the professors now housed in the G.
'S0 trail building move to the new buildi
but it will still be inadequately hous
The scientific departments. with tn
rub wa aluable laboratories and museums,
lid located in building that may be s
om- stroyed by fire any night. They VIII
loes, badly cramped and need room as ba
the as any other department..
per- Perhaps the greatest need Of the Y
The yersity is great library build
rob which would accommodate the 8
was eral library. the law library. thS 7
II be seums ans the State Historical soci'
with its valuable collections. form
as ii does one of the most import
nual auxlliaries of the university It SCI
IN OF likely, however, that library build
,day. lis not to be built very soon unles
at special appropriation Is made for
d, Of purpose. The members Of the fac'
are deeply interested in securing !