The Minneapolis journal., 1904-09-26
THE UNIVERSITY,
SCATTERED ALL
OVER THE CAMPUS
CLASSES MET IN MANY BUILD.
INGS TODAY.
Destruction Of the ''Old Main'.' Gave
Students No Vacation - President
Northrop Says Regents Will Take. Up
Plans for Appropriation for New
Rnildinc

Bulletin boards on all parts of the
university campus this morning gave
notice to the student that there was to
be no cessation of work on account of
the burning Of the main building. Each
student was told to provide himself
schedules were passed out in the library
rotunda.
The faculty committee appointed
Saturday had put in a strenuous Sunday
and the printed program was the result.
There was little conflict in classes, al
tributed among different buildings.
Glasses in the department. Of French,
hail. Sn'e ths Ghemstry @ef sSoaY Ybulang III HS04s try
Physics Ply building, the armory, the
library, the Y. NJ. G. A. building and the
school Of mines. In addition to these,
the Law and Medical buildings are be-
ing utilized for academic classes.
Thousands See Ruins.
The wreck of the old Main was
viewed by thousands yesterday. All
day long a stream of sightseers filed
by the ruins of the oldest building on
| the campus, around which so many
university traditions centered.
| r. Among students and alumni, specu-
lation was rife as to what sort of build
ing would be built in place of the Main.
It was the general hope that suff-
cient appropriation would be secured to
erect a building superior to any at the
| HU,' for the site of the Old Main is
the most prominent and picturesque on
the campus.
! e. Hundreds of students eluded the
vigilance of the special watchman and
entered the building thru broken win
! dOws and doors to secure mementoes.
| The relics most sought were the wooden
fronts Of postoftfce boxes.
Professors Search in Debris.
Among those who spent Sunday in
rummaging the ruins were many men,
! bers Of the faculty, who worked among
the watersoaked debris, endeavoring to
find manuscripts and books. In few
cases were their efforts successful, for
where the fire, had not entered, water
and smoke had done their work.
The front part Of the building es-
capped in the best condition, and here
the efforts of the searchers were re-
warded. Professor Maria Sanford re-
covered a number of valuable books,
and her loss will not be total, as was
at first thought.
Dean J. F. Downey had locked manu-
scripts and notes, the compilation of
thirty years, in a small wooden chest in
| his office on the second floor. A search
yesterday showed that the receptacle
had been burned. The center of the
mass of manuscript was the only thing
untouched and from this the dean hopes
to restore part of the documents.
The desks in the postoffice and Daily
office were recovered little the worse.
In the Daily desk 5000 left by Man
ager Ruble was discovered intact. Moth
ing was saved from the student lockers
and many are bewailing the necessity
of buying new books and materials
President Northrop Returns.
President Northrop, who arrived in
the city after an extended. southern
trip, spoke feelingly of the, cold
Main = in talk to the students in
chapel today. He asked that an effort
:! be made to make the best of the calam-
ity and predicted that the regular work
would not be seriously hampered.
President Northrop said that there
would be an October meeting Of the
board of regents and it would rest with
I them as to plans for a legislative ap.
preparation. He thought. that no action
would be taken before then and raised
the point that all money received in
insurance on state buildings must be
turned over to the state treasurer.