Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-15
PRESIDENT MAcLEAN'S ANNUAL
REPORT SHOWS AID.
vANcEMENT.
GREAT UNIVERSITY BEING
RUlLDED AT IOWA CITY
Standards Increased and Growth APP
parent Along All Lines-Reisious
Education an important Feature
$50 Women Enrolled as Students
During Past Year.

Special to Times-Republican.
Iowa City. June Is. President
George E. MacLean of the university
of Iowa, today submitted to the state
board Of education his eleventh report.
He opened with a tribute to the old
board Of regents, and declared that the
appreciation on every side will in
crease with the passing of years.
The new board had been met with a
spirit of loyalty. he averred Its de-
cision to erect physics building; and
the immediate erection of new en-
gineering shops; and the strengthen
ing of the school Of education gives as
surance of the continuity of the educa-
tional policies and building policies.
which characterize the best, modern
and particularly state, universities.
The second important feature Of the
year. he declared. was the recognizing
and increasing Of standards. The uni
versity for the first time sat as q mem
Der of the Association of American
Universities given to strengthen at ev-
cry point the standards Of admission
and graduation. The new board. In the
furtherance of the policy of o-ordin-
ating the university, Ames and the
State Teachers College, found ready
response upon the part of the univers-
ity The university senate has adopted
without amendment the recommended
tons Of the committee of fifteen for a
common system of standards and ac-
crediting secondary schools.
The greatest number of learned So
cieties in the history OF the university
have recognized this as a scholastic
center, and met at the university, the
past year-nine in all.
New Buildings.
The new buildings at the university
include a law building, costing $780,
900; home for the department of pub
lie speaking (remodeled )and the new
engineering shops.
Religious Education.
Year by year, the university is ad-
vancing in moral tone and religious
life. Larger national and church move
ments are afoot-in some part due to
the influence of the committee on re-
ligious education, whose publications
have been sought far and wide. The
churches Of various denominations
seem to be on the eve Of making pro-
vision to care for their students In
state universities.
Iowa's success in debate has been re-
rkable-Wisconsin, Minnesota, Me-
braska and Illinois having been beaten
during the past two years. Iowa won
the first place in the Northern Orator
incI League paul S. Collier, OF VIII
toni The late Prof. H. E. Gordon; r.
H. Randall, Miss johnson and MI.
Jones are entitled to great credit for
these victories.
University authors, thirty-three in
number, have produced ninety-seven
in material science, ap-
piled science, medicine, political SCI
ence and history, literature and educa-
ton being represented.
A new and valuable form of univers-
ity extension is the Lake Okoboji Lake.
side laboratory. owed to the enthusiasm
and labors of Dr. T. H. MacBride, his
colleagues and generous alumni. Ihe
first session justified the enterprise.
Increased attendance Is anticipated
this year.
The Museum of Natural History has
been enriched by the gift or 215 lots
of marine invertebrate from the Unit
ed States national museum. IN return
for services rendered by Curator Z. Z.
Nutting. Other museums have been
benefited largely. Taxidermist DilPs
mounted groups have been justly and
greatly admired.
Women at S. U. I.
Miss Anna NJ. Klingenhagen, the
dean of women, reports $50 women in
attendance OF these, 2S0 live here
with relatives, and 100 at sorority
houses. In lodging houses are about
s20-mostly in approved homes. Svendl
Hall has succeeded and proves con-
clusively that the state ought to house
not less than % per cent OF the wom-
en-, in order to complement and stimu-
late private enterprises. The dean and
the federated clubs of the state con-
tinue their appeal for the next leg1sla-
ture to provide women's building.
Law College and Medicine.
The college of law has had record
year-witf d magnificent new building.
8 student council for the adoption and
of regulations of order
and conduct; and a noteworthy in
crease in attendance.
The Carnegie Foundation has re-
ported on the laboratory instruction
with high mmerhation, and acknowl-
edged the permanence Of the state uni
type Of medical schools with
high standards.
The board of education has made
provision to retain the surgical chairs,
thus abolishing uneasiness on that
Mcbride { wins Unusual Offer
cit isn't often that we have faith