Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-13
University Attendance Has Been
Larger and the Work Very
Satisfactory
PRESIDENTS REF
T e
Some Interesting Statements in the
Report Submitted to the Board of
Regents This Week-outIook is
Promisins-Andrew Carnegie Gives
Hopkinton $4,000.
Special to rimes-Republican

Iowa City, June 13.-All records for
attendance at the State University of
Iowa were broken this year, according
10 President ID. George E. MacLean.
of the institution in his annual report,
submitted to the board of regents yes
terday. Said DIR. MacLean in part:
The total attendance of the year,
excluding all duplicates, is 1,S14 stu
dents, an increase of Ii per cent over
last years attendance, and the largest
in the history of the university. There
is a healthful distribution of the in
crease: the threefolding of the atten-
dance of those entering the college
of applied sciences and the doubling
of those entering the college of dem
tistry, and the increase from lis to
166 in the graduate college, are the
most prominent facts. The phenomi-
nal increase gives promise of continu-
ance because it seems to arise from
the renewed confidence in the enlarg-
ing university. 1t is due to the en-
thusiasm of the students and young
alumni as they go from Its halls; the
patient service and devotion of the
faculty; the untring zeal Of the uni
versity editor; the better knowledge
of the institution in the state and it's
attainment of rank among institu-
tons of its kind. and the increasing
support fund from the legislature ana
the natural fruition of the policies this
board has consistently pursued for
years.
President MacLean also made the
following statement:
The moral life is the dominant one
and the key to continued develop
ment. The university lectures on
practical ethics under the auspices of
the department of philosophy by diff
ferent professors and attended by a
representative body of the members of
the university, are indicative of the
sweep Of this moral life thru the en-
tire field of thought and action.
The freedom of the student body
| from the too common scandals con-
| nected with scraps" and hazing here
and elsewhere, and the treatment of
! the only incident of the year by the
| sophomores and freshmen in conference
with the faculty committee, looking to
| the disappearance of the irresponsible
| and barbarous features, heralds the
spread of morals and common sense.
| Voluntarily the young women in the
| sororities have led the way to earlier
hours of closing their social festivities,
and there is a distinct tendency to limit
them as to days of the week.
| "The various faculties have exercised
discipline more expeditiously and with
moral earnestness that has been felt
| L, ~ oct,,
! ttment has been active in approval of
Ugh practices, and there is note
worthy increase in a high sense of hon
or The college of applied science, with
the approval Of the students, has
adopted the West Point regulation that
dishonesty in college work shall sub
ject thu, student to expulsion.
'The continued crowded attendance
upon the voluntary religious exercises
Of the university is but one sign. The
enthusiasm and loyalty of the students
of the university has been proved in
the organization of county and state
clubs, part of whose mission is to
bring students to share the advan-
tages those here enjoy.
"In order to recover the personal
contact between professor and student
which characterizes the small college
in an early day, the faculty of Lib
eral Arts have been trying during the
year the experiment Of having q pro-
fessor-generally the head of a de-
partment-as a councillor. friend and
adviser for a group of ten or twelve
students. In the main the PLAN has
been successful. 1t is likely to be per-
fected and to become permanent. 1t
will be. source of social and moral
ct.