Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-12
END OF UNIVERSITY YEAR
Thirty-Pirst Commencement Day to Be
Observed Today.
CONDITION or INSTITUTION AND ITS NEEDS
Chancellor Andrews' Address to the
Alumni Contains His views and
Recommendation for
Future Betterment.
From a stan Correspondents

(From a Stan Correspondent
LINCOLN. June u.-(special)-Tomor-
row will mark the end Of the thirty first
school year Of the University of Nebraska.
The graduates will be given their diplomas,
and then, with the exception of a few re-
ceptions in the evening, the seniors will be
free from all duties in connection with the
university.
The demand for tickets TO the commence
ment exercises tomorrow has been greater
than usual, probably because Booker T.
Washington is to deliver the Grafton. The
exercises will be held in the Auditorium
and the indications are that 1t will be
filled to its utmost.
The alumni Of the university had charge
of all events incident to commencement to-
day. In the morning J. Irving Manatt, ex-
chancellor Of the university, delivered the
annual Phi Beta Kappa grafton. After this
came the annual class dinners and reunions.
Tonight Judge e. p. Holmes delivered the
alumni address, his subject being, THE
Tendency OF Woman's Social Development"
Report OF the Chancellor.
Chancellor Andrews read to the alumni
his report on the condition and needs Of
the university. as follows:
The university has added nothing to its
lands this year. The need for larger
quarters here in the city will soon be
ment. A more Immediate call for land is
heard from the farm, where, large as the
quired that agricultural teaching and ex-
pertmentation may go on strongly.
No buildings, have been erected the last
farm. There Is imperative necessity for
two additional buildings at the farm. It
Department Of Physics to toll longer with
out any place wholly Its own either for
proper storing Of apparatus. The value
OF our physical apparatus, reasonably
abundant and much of it very costly. Is
imperfect storage and the necessity for
transporting pieces from place to place for
use in teaching. No one Of the engineering
departments has sufficient premises. The
shops are too small. The Important De
forbidden to enlarge for lack Of space.
repair possible, with the limited resources
pairs are badly needed which IT is impossi-
bic to effect at present for lack OF funds.
friends of the state ought to insist that
wasteful management Of this sort be
ought to be money to make efficient repai;s
Immediately in every case where the need
Of repairs arises, That Is what private
owners OF hfst-class business plants al
Ways do. Sound economy on behalf of the
state would supply the regents with funds
srty as promptly and as completely as the
Burlington road does upon its engines and
Spite of poverty something has been ac-
complisehd In improving the appearance
Of the university premises. The Athletic
putting up a new grandstand and a new
Fence about the athletic field. In securing
~neatness on the campus faculty. and stu
tents have eo-operated admirably.
The teaching force Of the university mas mas
sns iaSt dean s snddea4t valued professor ieft
us a year ago. 1 refer to Edgran and
BROOKS, who accepted eligible positions
match. Several other professors have re-
ceived calls. to leave us at higher salaries,
teaching force has been hard, faithful and
efficient. fItF members have wrought IN
perfect harmony and eo-operation-one Of
the service OF the university.
Body Commended.
The student body has been characterized
by almost universal zeal In work. Uni
have been III and, so far as l know, but
one has died. Athletic and debating sue
ceSses are known ab to all; all the tSat co conlS 6 oe
desired. There have been a few cases of
cheating in written work which, Of course,
almost un.--donable sin. If this vice does
not abate gerater severity Will have to
even be necessary to treat It as absolutely
objectionable. When taxed with this fault
and not frowhed on very seriously in the
high schools where they prepared. This is
unfortunate II true. Perhaps the question
Of its truth is worth investigating
Annoying thefts occur at Intervals in
Some of the thieves are no doubt outsiders,
but not all. ThIef-students do not, l be-
leve. learn their vice here, but we ought
to be able to make them unlearn II here.
Clear cases Of such delinquency should be
severely punished.
Spite OF all this the moral tone OF our
student body is higher than that at any
other institution with which l have been
connected. OF course, being a state uni
versity, supported by general taxation. we
ecclesiastical organization against any
other. When people, however. allege that
The university does nothing to advance the
interests of religion l always protest. All
preachers, all evanGelists. all churchmen,
such. even, as go furthest in emphasizing
maintain that the very best means which
can be used to propagate religion Is the
influence OF noble and upright character.
II would perhaps be invidious to compare
the influence OF the faculty and students
OF our university in this regard with the
corresponding influence exerted at other
schools, but. could such a comparison be
made and made fairly, the result would, /
am sure, convince all that there is in
exercise at this university a most powerful.
creation and dissemination OF the best re-
suits prayed for by all Christian people.
why the Falling on.
The number of students connected with
the university has probably been somewhat
less the last. year han for a few years
the main TO four causes: First. the growth
OF private colleges In the state. Second,