The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-23
Institution
Of LEARNING
IS PRACTI
Valuable Courses
Are Strong Aid
to Success.
Alumni w in Honor
in Active Life
by Merit.
~ -%-
Facilities A pie
to Impart Good
Education.
BY j. E. CHURCH JR.


one year ago the university passed
the thirtieth milestone OF its existence
rs the highest educational center Of
Nevada and the seventeenth year of its
university career. Born in poverty but
rich in the faith Of its founders. it has
struggled upward against the declining
fortunes OF the State and maintained
its supremacy among its sister institu
lions Of the Great Basin and the region
10 the north and the south.
Much Of this progress, too. has been
made since 1884 during the States
greatest depression. for throughout this
trying period neither the regents nor
State Legislatures have ever failed TO
respond 10 the increasing needs Of the
university as il developed under the
masterfuI leadership Of President
Stubs
Therefore. though transferred from
Elko 10 Reno IN 1887 and compelled 10
start anew. since that time the univer-
sity has grown from two. preparatory
teachers 10 faculty of twenty-eiSht
men and women, and from an unfin-
ished building and lonely hilltop to a
campus OF thirty-live acres and eleven
ouIdings-a plant valued at the present
tine AT $500. COO Its courses of in
eTLcLlO1 also nave DeG4 llCIedSSQ
from q high school course and a short
course in assaying to = fully developed
university having schools of Liberal
Arts. General Science, Engineering,
Agriculture, Domestic Arts and Educa-
ton and u University High and Com
mercial school. The library has grown
from d shelf OF books TO 10000 volumes
and q humble laboratory has given way
10 dozen laboratories devoted to prac-
Lcally ali the better known sciences
both pure and technical. The dormitory
privileges have been improved from
row OF pine stalls over one of the reci-
tation halls and the woodshop TO the
cOmmodious structures known as Man
Eanita and Lincoln halls, while the
struggle with nature TO reclaim the
hilltop viii finally end in park TO
which both students and citizens will
love 10 resort
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
The best evidence of the university's
success. however is in its output of
successful graduates and students.
During its thirty years of existence
over 1900 students have been in at
tendance and 40 students have been
graduated from the college schools.
Since 1891 22S baccalaureate degrees
have been conferred high percent
age Of students and graduates consid-
the counties Of California adjacent
thereto.
OF the graduates from the Schools Of
Liberal Arts, General Science and Edu-
cation, one is the Representative of
Nevada in Congress, another is Su-
preme Judge OF the State, eight have
been elected TO college professorships
in this and other States. while larger
number have been college assistants
and instructors One has been State
Superin tendent Of Public Instruction
and another has attained high rank
in the mining world Still others are
editors and high school principals.
Many are engaged in Government serv-
ice and in the practice of law, medi-
cine and dentistry, while nearly one
half Of the positions in the grammar
and ungraded schools of the State are
hlled by the graduates Of the School of
Education
The graduates Of the Schools of En-
cheering are almost without excep-
ton engaged in professional work
from San Francisco to New York
isthUaUs, while in South Africa
they have gained a foothold in num-
bers lar out Of proportion to the nG-
merical Importance OF their State and
university and hold positions from the
more humble mine surveyor and sam
some OF the larger properties on the
Rand at salaries ranging from $4,000
10 SIS. 900 per annum- Many of the
graduates also hold positions in the
Government service from the Geological
Survey to the position of second assist
ant examiner in the Division of Metal
lurgy and Electro-Chemistry in the
Patent Office at Washington
OF the graduates of the School OF
q is cd in, Hi
ing, some have gone into mining en-
cheering, two are engaged in business
one is teaching, and one has gained
distinction in war.
Others of our students have entered
the army from the Cadet Corps and
won commissions.
OF more direct service to the State
have been the large number OF grad
yates and students who have settled
within her borders and have directed
their efforts TO the Improvement of
the conditions about them, while the
schools of Agriculture, Mining and
Education have, in addition to the work
Of instruction. assisted by means of in
vestigation and conference to advance
the States educational and technical
interests.
ACADEMIC IDEALS.
Thus has the university been held
unsweryingly TO the plan conceived by
its first president. Leroy D. Brown. to
keep the university in close sympathy
with the ideals Of the State and in
faithful service TO their needs And
now when the State is once more
standing at the threshold OF opportu-
nifty. the university. nodded and
strengthened during this period of
preparation. is ready to aid in mas
tering the problems before her. These
problems concern not alone the ma
terial but the intellectual welfare of
the State. The revival OF mining and