Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-14
President Mclean Shows the
University Has Had a Pros
porous Year
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Unexpected Increase in Attendance
Has Had Effect of Putting Greater
Faith in the Institutional Review
of What Has Been Accomplished
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Iowa City, June 14.-"From every
sides comes the word of cheer that the
year which began in clouds has been
one Of the best known to the State
University of Iowa"
So declared President George T..
MacLean in his sixth annual report
to the board of regents. Proceeding,
President MacLean said among other
things:
THE unexpected increase in attend
ance from 1898 in the preceding year
to 1860. the largest attendance in the
history of the university, is most COM
monty remarked upon. The symmetri-
cal growth of the institution is APP
parent from the even distribution of
the increase.
The business side of the university
was never more efficiently or economic
cally administered in the departments
of the secretary Of the board and of the
superintendent of grounds ar / build
ings, now covering virtually the func-
tons of purchasing agents, and saw
ings of hundreds of dollars have been
made In the use of students and pro-
fessors in practical ways in the study
ing of markets, and combining of pur-
chases to secure wholesale rates.
The consolidation of chairs in Diff
ferent colleges into single great uni
veristy departments, as in chemistry,
has lent itself to the efficiency and
economics spoken of.
The pursuance of this same policy
Of coordination and combination in a
statewide fashion and focusing at the
university for the service of the whole
state such educational and practical
movements as find their issue in I'M
iversity, is another note of progress.
The state meteorological laboratory in
its first year, as the reports of the
state board of health show, has not
only established its 200 and more
initial sub stations. but has been the
means of correct diagnosis and cure of
disease and the prevention of it's
spread.
I'm the relations Of departments of
social and political sciences of COM
merce and of the applied sciences to
the activities of their various fields,
from philanthropy to those of manu-
features, we have the further begin
nings of what is most modern for an
institution OF this kind
The extensive gifts and small pur-
chases from the st. Louis exposition
have added to all the museums, class
ical, educational, commercial and es-
pecially those of natural history, and
ensure the continuance particularly of
our natural history museum at the
forefront. The beginning of the erec-
ton of fireproof building for the de-
partment of zoology and the museum
is most timely, and stimulated by the
erection of building numerous gifts
are on their way to us. An unknown
friend in the eastl pleased with the
spirit of the university in reaching the
state in practical kind of university
extension over and above that of
a lecture and teachers bureau, has
made gift, the first installment Of
which is $1,000, to provide illustrative
material in teaching fine arts at the
university, and from the university in
the schools of the state.
''The Hon. Frank q. LoWden, or
Chicago, donated a prize of $50 a year
for excellence in debate and to slim
ulate success in recovering our past
famous record in intercollegiate de-
bate.
1.-The practically entire reorganiza-
ton of the School of Applied Science.
due to the appointment of director
and the securing Of one of college ex-
perience, in the person of Professor
William Gait Raymond, who came to
us from Rensselaer, Polytechnic 1nsti-
tute, together with other additions to
the staff, and the threefold increase in
entering students, bring us to the
point of the further development of
this school into a college with its own
faculty, and I heartily join in the
recommendation of the director of the
school for the establishment of such
college,"