Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29

| With the opening of the fall semester
| the University of Minnesota begins new
| era, under the direction OF
| President new president. full OF
| yigor and ambitions and
Vincent. possessed not only OF
! ability but of an abundance of that rarer
| and more useful quality Familiarity known
| as common sense. Among all the tools
| required by successful men there Is moth
| ing 80 important as that faculty. ana
when q man is intrusted with the duty
| of converting annually four or FIVE thou
| sand samples of raw human nature INTO
desirable citizens he needs it more than
any other qualification. George r. Vim
| cent. who elected president OF the
| University of NJ nnesota last spring. to
succeed the venerable and venerated
| Cyrus Northrop. for twenty-seven years
president of this institution. has the
benefit of distinguished ancestry, com
prehensve experience and thorough
| education in the knowledge of men as
we'll as books. His training has been
| broad and general: be is not specialist
| in any sense. and has come in contact
with all kinds and conditions of men and
women. He carried responsibility in n $
early boyhood: he is fearless. self-rei-aht
and has the energy of OOoO-horsepoWer
| dynamo.
These qualifications combined W TN
clear conscience, a profound respect TOT
order. a genial personality and an ambi-
ton that knows no limit make him dh
| ideal college president. and 1t Is 10 secret
that he has been favorably conSlderen LOT
president of other institutions IN tne eas.
| been president of Princeton but for GU
| rions reason which has never been pup
| lished but he has a wider NED anu ~, -
greater opportunity in Minnesota ana VIII
| not be hampered here by traditions tnat
would interfere with his lndlv' ~
an older and more conservative institu-
ton.
| The University Of Minnesota mas
| wider constituency than any other eou-
| cational institution in
Ymmonca the United States There
is no competition be-
Endowment. tween the great lakes
and Puget sound, and it's possibilities are
| enhanced by an almost fabulous emo"
| ment fund from the iron ore that lies uhder
! the soil bestowed upon the state OF MIN
nesota by the federal government TOT
! educational purposes No institutlon-no'
| Harvard. nor Columbia, nor Chicago, nor
Leland Stanford. nor any other state or
| corporate university in all the Worla-"lil
be so rich The coming generations IN
| Minnesota have inherited the means OF
proyid:ne the poorest child higher edu-
| cation free of cost.
| The school system of this state is unlike
| that of any other state. being centrallZeo
| under the direction of a board of twelve
| regents and "a superintendent OF pnDiie
| Instruction. beginning with the kinder
| garten and reaching post-graduate. pro
| fess'onal schools that Will provide Tram
| ing for every field of human activity
! The schools of Minnesota already nave
| a fund of 5000 100000 or more in sight
| No state of the Union and no country
in the world has anything IKE its imam nan,
| cial resoure es behind 1t. Within the next
| fifty years there will be an income suffi-
cient to feed. clothe and educate every
child and indeed there Will be enough 20
| set him up in business if the paternalistic
tendencies of the Legislature take tnat gu
| rection.
When Minnesota was organized as a
territory. in 1910. it was understood that
grant of public land
University would be made by Congress
| y, for the founding and sup
Founded. port of university The
| legislature took action two years later,
but it was not until 1860 that the institu-
ton was located, lat or near the Fails OF
ST Anthony" and a board of regents
| was appointed. In 1860 William Watts
| Folwell, a man of strong character. ear
nest zeal and broad vision. was appointed
| president and began work with a fac-
| ulty OF nine professors and instructors
| In 49,: the first commencement exercises
were held and diplomas were bestowed
| upon two graduates. but it was not
until 1881 when Cyrus Northrop succeed
| ed to the presidency, that the great de-
yeIopmenf began which has continued
until now the university consists OF
| twelve colleges and one school, has more
than 80 instructors ana one OF the laIg-
est bodies OF students of any institution
in the world. Only a few in the United
States and Europe exceed Minnesota III
point of attendance. and the students
come from a belt of territory extending.
as | have said from the great lakes to
the Pacific coast More than 5000 alumni
| are scattered in that territory and their
influence is very strong. You can lind
/ graduates of Minnesota in every town
| a most in the belt Of states on the Ca
| madam border The college spirit is
strong They retain their interest In the
! institution. They create public opinion for
| its support and strengthen the regents
| and the faculty.
\ n vi
| ception of agriculture and forestry. are
| housed in twenty-seven buildings upon
campus of fifty-ive acres, and by recent
enactment of the LEGISLATURE an area
three times as large has been acquired
| When the COTTAGES and other buildings
| that occupy it have been torn away ana
| the ground bias been cleared OF oDStruc-
lions the university will have one OF the
most attractive and convenient locations
| of any institution. 1t is situated about
half way between Minneapolis and st.
| Paul on the banks of the MISSISSIPPI
river and Isl reached from both cities ps
| three lines of trolley cars and boulevard
| that skirts the rim of the river BANK
The old buildings are now being re-
| moved and several new buildings are IN
| course of construction. Some OF theH.
will be finished this fall. and the plans OF
the regents contemplate the addition OF
several others. which will he commenced
| in the spring.
/ The departments of agriculture and Tor
| estry are detached. The College of Agrl-
| cil ture has "A separate campus and farm
/ Of Ion acres IT st. Anthony Park in 81
Paul twenty minutes by trolley from the
| presidents office. with All experiment sta-
/ ton The school of Forestry $ on the
| state for - reserve at Lake ltasca. me
| source Of the Mississippi river. The stu
| dents are engaged IL pract cal work there
| from April to September and the remain
| on the theoretical side of the science at