The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY
Exercises al the Fist BapS Church Marks ue End Of Another Year in
the Life Of lie ]. u D.PFresded Wafnieds Annual Re
port Scholarly Address By Professor Lord Of
The Illinois Slate Normal School

almost all connected with the Univer-
sity; a year unmarked by death or SER
ious illness among our faculty or stu,
dent body; unmarked, also, by any vio-
lent disorders, calling for discipline by
the faculty; a year Of freedom from
serious injury on the athletic field;
year Of steady growth in numbers, in
efficiency, in popular esteem within
our borders and in reputation with
out-in short, in year of growth in
all those things which should and do
make the life Of a healthy, growing in
dividual, institution or community. It
may be said without qualification that
the past year has been in almost all
respects notably the best year in the
history Of the University. Statistically
and in detail the following
Evidences of Growth
may be cited. Our instruc-
tional force has increased during tho
past year from Al to 4S; the STUDENT
enrolment from 637 to 755; the fresh
man class, including the Junior law
class, from S. to IA; the senior or
graduating class from s. to IL; the
enrolment in the college of law from
40 to 20; in the college of liberal arts,
from 80 to 112; in the college of engi-
neering from IS to so; in the teach
ers' college (including the Normal COL
.lege) from 20 to 80; the total enroll
ment of students of full college grade,
from POI to 275; the number of vol
umes in the. library from 20,SSS to
more than $4,000.
New Departments.
The College OF Medicine-The past
year has seen the formal establish
ment of the college of medicine of the
University. For the present. this col
lege will offer but two years of the full
four years medical course, but its
graduates will, it is expected, be adj
United without prejudice to the third
or junior year Of all reputable medical
colleges. A large part of the work
required in, the first two years in our
best medical. colleges has been for
some years offered in the college of
liberal arts at the University, but stu
dents pursuing the work could not,
under the rules prescribed by the
American Association Of Medical Col
leges, be credited toward the M. D.
degree for work so done In universe
ties not maintaining regularly or
ganized medical school. The step re-
Gently taken by the University has,
therefore, been in the interest, largely,
of that considerable number of stu
dents in our college of liberal arts
who are looking forward to the study
Of medicine. The newly established
department has involved for the pres
entsyear but single addition to our
active teaching staff. The new college,
as believe, has set high its standard
of requirements for admission-viz.,
the completion of the first two years
of the curriculum in the college Of
liberal arts. Many of the less tech
nical subjects pursued in a medical
school are pursued also in the college
of liberal arts in most institutions and
count toward the B. A. degree. Recog-
nizing that fast, the University grants
the B. A. degree to those students who
Degrees Granted.
complete the curriculum prescribed
for the medical department and also
grants a certificate which. it is ex-
pected, will admit the student to the
junior year Of any good medical COL
lege. Most universities now allow one
year Of work In any of its professional
schools to count toward the B. A. de-
gree and some of our best universities
allow two years of work done in the
college of medicine to count toward
the B. "A. as we'll as toward the M. D.
degree. This is In recognition of a.
growing sentiment to the effect that
culture is derived not so much from
the contevt studied as from the meth
cd of study pursued. When / was a
young man in college the idea would
have been sneered down that the study
of such a natural science as botany,
for instance, could possibly afford as
much culture as the study of, we will
say, an ode Of Horace or play of
Meliere. But 1t was the greatest poet
of the 10th century, himself exemplffy-
ing the highest culture Of that century,
who wrote:
Flower in the crahnied wall,
I pluck, you out Of the crannies,
hold you here, root and all, in my
Little fiower-but IL I could understand
| What you are, root and all. and all in
i should know what God and man isl
| Teachers' College.
I, When the organic act creating
the university was passed in
1888 it provided for a normal
college or department In which
should be impaired "the proper In
struc In the theory and art Of teach
| ing and in all the various branches
and subjects needful to teaching in
the common schools" Here is a dis
tinct recognition in the laws Of the
state OF the proper scope of IA state
normal school as the preparation OF
teachers for the common schools OF
the state. Although the normal de-
partment at the University has from
the beginning offered a course of study
extending two full years beyond that
Of the four years. high schools Of the
state and one full year beyond that Of