Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-12

the fees which the university has had 70
impose on all students owing TO the too
small amount received the iasJ ume TON
for the same reason, II was thought. well
TO require from nonresident students.
advance in the cost Of living this year
over that Of previous years. l suppose that
the most c9nomieS student M i in the 6e, u gnr
s25 to $50 more the last year than was
These causes It win be observed are
likely to continue. 1t will be necessary
t bses II sse in uhfihv e auaylit SnS Of i ~ WorE
keep up the pace II has set for its friends
by their exertions to counterfeit and over
come these adverse causes named, to set
in exercise, that is, other forces stronger
than these which threaten to check our
1t is probably known to all present that
recently the regents have, partly through
afhliation with the Omaha Medical college,
established in the university a college Of
medicine. The first two of the four years
OF instruction will be given In Lincoln and
me last two taken uP Win more eSn !
This is considered a very Important new
step. 1t cannot fail Of telling results. chief
among which will be elevation In the quail
ity of medical and surgical knowledge and
practice throughout the missouri valley.
The college Of medicine Will pay all It's
ent. not being In any sense a burden upon
the university chest.
II may D pObblDlG III III CouI6tO u - lew
years to erect a college of engineering on
a similar basis, affiXing certain fees to
the excellent instruction given In that de-
partment, so that the university treasury
may be richer by the sums now necessary
to keep up such teaching. This, 1t seems
to me, would be only just. inasmuch as no
engineering Of lucrative employment on
leaving the university.
science there should be added as soon. as
possible corresponding. work in domestic
Monies, geography and methods should be
Instituted. A year or two OF hard and
frst-class work in architecture should be
offered and the courses which the Greek
department, straining its resources. is at
present offering in the history and criticism
of fine arts should be erected into an indie
in forestry already arranged should be pro-
mulgated at once and strongly carried
Alumni Can Help.
1 am saying these things to the alumni of
the university because the advancement
pointed out can never be achieved save
OF ways ySgr n YGG c eSH G direc t'o to your alma
mater many young people who desire a
higher education In some. of its forms.
More particularly those Of you who are
teachers can inspire in the breasts Of
youth a desire for higher education and
then turn their footsteps this way. All OF
you can do something to inform the public
and especially members OF the legislature,
tou h the value of the work the uni
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sources that It may compass a still vaster
work of good. Lastly, you can make 1t
its university are not of the nature OF
charity, but invested and invested in the
best possible gilt-edged security, yielding
two sets of priceless dividends, one
estimable in terms of dollars and cents and
consisting In an increased valuationzof the
states estate, real and personal. and one
too precious to be told in any language of
money, consisting in bettered civilization
and the higher life of mind.
Not even the most enthusiastic Alumni
on the grounds duly prizes the university.
We need to eXalt IT more in our thoughts
and compel the public TO do so. Plan for
1t and lead others to plan for 1t, not in
a petty or niggardly way, bat copiously,
Immensely, stupendously.. as the central
glory of our commonwealth. Our state is
no longer poor; 1t is rich and rapidly be-
coming opulent. There Is less danger OF
our having too little than of our letting
abundance minister TO what is low, build
ing houses costly but of mud instead of
mansions imperishable. l of course do not
maintain that the university is the sole
source of good direction IN strong and
noble social construction, but l do say that
II is a main and a matchless source, worthy
of the most devoted and liberal mainte-
nance.
Law school Graduates.
The graduates Of the University College
of Law were this morning given the oath
OF admission to the bar by Chief Justice
Sullivan. They are:
Maurice Clifford Atehi- George Arthur johnson.
son, Albert Hayes Keeney,
Claire James Baird, Fred Garfield Kidd.
Terance Tracy Boylen, Clifford W. Leroy.
Lee Paris Builta, Frank Paul Manchester,
Edmund James Galloway, Charles z. Matson,
Joseph Ernest Cherry, Edwin Richard Mockett,
Charles Willard Clapp, Irving Evelyn Montgom-
Hugh Elton Clapp, cry,
John Leo Cleary, Nels r. Nelson.
Lewis Emery Cottle, Lin Ithsmar Noble
Donald Alexander CrAw- Cadwailader william
ford, Pace,
Joseph McKinnis Darby. Aleck Theodore Peterson.
Henry Leonard DeKalb, william John ReATdon.
Oscar Douglas, Ira Victor Reasoner,
Gerald NJ. Drew, John Ferguson Rotruck,
Victor Hugo Duras, Oscar Otiand Smith,
Harvey NJ. Deval, Earnest Garfield Spealman,
Herman Virgil Tailor. John B. Splitter,
olive Gilmor Tailor, ROBBERY Percy Starr,
Lucien Baker Fuller. Hugh Alfred Stevenson.
Anthony Edward Gordon, Frederick Arthur Suffer.
Winfield Wilkinson Leonard Emerson Telleen,
Graves. Ferdinand Ehrman Thomas
William Raymond Heart. John N. Trommershauser
Charles Benjamin Hughes, John Elias Willis,
Cassius L. johnson, oliver william witham.
On recommendation OF the examining
commission the supreme court also ad-
mitted Ashby E. Smith, a practitioner,
formerly OF Missouri, to the Nebraska bar.