, 1904-04-19
NUMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY ME
LANCE JUST FROM HANDS
OF THE PRINTER.
Contains Number of Splendid Illustra.
tons and Excellent Articles Of In
terest to the People Of the State
Articles by Number of Members
of the Faculty and Others.

carries a group picture of the four
of the girl cadets In uniform on the
parade ground. a portrait of Prof. Con
ard, superintendent of the schools at
Cheyenne, and a number of splendid
articles on different topics.
There are articles from the pens o.
President Lewis, DR.. Grace R. Hebard,
librarian at the university; DR.. Verge
land. Prof. Read. Prof. June Downey
and others.
The Republican takes pleasure in
reproducing the following especially
interesting paragraphs:
A university used to be composed
of class rooms and teachers. Later
it was thought better to define the uni
versity as a collection of books with
mel to explain them. We are already
passing into a higher stage of educa-
ton, according to which a university
consists of a collection of objects to
which the professors act simply as
guides. AS far as possible now the
students are brought into contact with
the things they are studying about,
instead OF merely being told about
them. The museum. therefore. is, in
the new education. becoming more i'm
portant than the lecture room or the
library.
For so young an institution. the Uni
versity of Wyoming is well supplied
with museums, particularly with col.
lections illustrating the natural his
tory and mineral of the
state. We rave on exhibition the fos-
sill bones of some of the gigantic rep
tiles which used to SWIM about this
country in the days when Wyoming
was an cea instead Of an arid region.
1t is rather startling to stand up be-
fore a single femur. or leg bone. and
find that it is taller than you are, ana
then try to realize that it is from a
very short-legged animal after all. in
comparison with it's length. Even the
large museum room in the new science
hall would not hold one of these giant
lizards, if it were all put together, un-
less its tail could be coiled around the
room. Only a small part of this col
lection is on exhibition, as there are
some eighty tons of fossil bones yet
unpacked, just as they were taken out
of the university quarry. Besides
these archaeological specimens. the
university has a large collection of
minerals and rocks. some excellent re
lief models giving the geological ftN
nation Of such localities as the Yellow
stone National park.
The Rocky Mountain Herbarium,
which is a department of the univer-
sity, contains now $4,000 specimens
of plants. Very many of them are
from Wyoming n other Rocky noun
tain states. Something like 800 OF
these were discovered and named by
Prof. Nelson and his pupils.
The collection of insects and of
bird skins is also important and very
useful for identifying specimens sent
in from various parts of the state.
The professors of the university are
very liberal with their time in an
swering questions asked by school chill
dren Or ~prospectors. or anyone else,
and any specimens of plants, minerals,
fossil or insect, may be sent to the uni
fed free of charge.
The members of the faculty of the
university are planning for an edu-
catiolal exhibit at the end of the col
lege year.. This exhibit will consist,
% Of the products of the university
in the way of charts. maps. wood work,
iron work, examination papers, essays,
etc. These products will be placed
where the public can see the work.
(2) There will be an educational eX-
hibit from a number of the city grade
and high schools. Prof. Stockwell of
the normal department has the matter
under control, and will undoubtedly
secure a fine collection from the var
ious city schools. Any educational pro-
ducts that are of special interest from
any section of the state will be gladly
received.
The university will also make an eff
fort to have an unusually strong re-
presentation at the next industrial con-
vention at Casper. If the people of the
state can be led in some way to discov-
er the practical work that is done here
and somehow can be made acquainted
with the general condition of things,
great results will follow in the way OF
increased pride in the state institution
and state patronage.
l.. c. Tidball, who has been princi.
pal Of the Manville schools for the past
year. will return to the University in
May, and it Is expected that he will
finish the work in the normal school
and graduate with the class in June.
Mr.. Tidball has been carrying on his
subjects with this in view all the year,
and it is certainly a c~ommendable I'M.
dertahing. Whydonot young men
and m who are out teaching in
the state do the anne sort of work for
themselves? Miss Clara Saunders has
also been doing similar work this year,
and Miss O'Keefe will be present in
the spring term to continue her I'M
completed work.
A number of students have register
ed as candidates for positions in pub
lie schools, that will soon need to be
filled. This does not include simply
those who are taking work in the nor
NAL school, but, In addition to these
students in other departments. Calls