The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

make the young men and women cor
rect In manners and in speech, while
the moral influences about the school
are of the highest character. The
farm, with it's many acres under Gull
tivation for various experiments, the
buildings, the greenhouses, the mu-
scum, the dairy building with its but
ter and cheese making, all combine to
make this a most attractive spot, and
furnish delight to the multitude Of
people who from all parts Of the coun-
try annually visit it.
'The campus of the university, SO
long neglected because there were no
funds to pay for proper care, has been
greatly improved the present year.
Mrs. Sarah Pillsbury Gale, daughter
of Governor Pillsbury, has not only
caused a fence to be erected along the
front of the campus, but she has also
done much to adorn the campus by the
setting out Of snrubbery, the improve
ment Of the driveways, and by special
care Of the lawns. The campus has
never before been SO beautiful as 1t has
been the past summer. The grounds
of the university have been enlarged
the present year by the addition of
several acres Of land obtained partly
by gift and partly by purchase. The
athletic field at one end of the campus
is in part composed of this new land.
The field has been inclosed by hand
some brick wall, the gift of AL
fred F. Pillsbury; and it is now one
of the most attractive athletic fields
in the country and a most desirable
addition to the campus, at once con-
venient, useful and beautiful.
'"The university must be seen to be
appreciated. No outside exhibit can
ever do justice to the best intellectual
work done in any institution. The
products Of the hand can be shown
hut he I,xy ioI, n
trained to greater acuteness and de-
veloped to larger power cannot be
shown in any exhibition. One who
goes thru the processes can appre-
ciate them. A striking proof that
most people in the world are entirely
engrossed with their own affairs and
find little time for anything outside
OF the circle Of their own special in
terests, is the fact that comparatively
few people of even Minneapolis and
st. Paul have any real knowledge of
the university, the character and ex-
tent of it's work, and the facilities it
| possesses for doing that work. Com
paratively few of the people Of these
two cities have ever visited the uni
versity, and a much smaller number
have ever made any personal inspec-
ton of the institution. It is known,
of course, that the university is grow
ing, that it has a large number Of
professors and instructors, and tnat It's
students have almost reached the four
thousand point, but beyond that little
is known except as to the work on the
athletic field. The football games draw
! more visitors than all the rest Of the
university work-and the location Of
the field so near to the campus is on
this account a matter for congratula-
ton, inasmuch as it insures some
slight incidental inspection of the uni
versity by the outside world while en-
gagged in studying closely the muscular
achievements on the athletic field. For
the present it would seem that Her
cules is the dominant hero outside as
we'll as inside institutions of learning;
and that Demosthenes and Aeschylus
and Phidias have but minor place In
the thought and admiration of the
world. But this is more in the SEEM
ing than in reality-and the applica-
ton of the different kinds of training
to the work of life will ultimately en-
able each kind to secure its proper
place in public estimation"