Arizona republican., 1921-11-21
University Of Arizona Has Made
 Remarkable Progress During Eight
 Year Presidency Of Won kleinSmid

attainments and ideals and great ex- perience. There were few high schools in Arizona in those days and his chief work was the transforna- tion of high school into a college.
 Dr. Wilde was a man with rare faculty for detail. He made Univer sity Week an important institution and developed along modern lines the relative weight of the different departments.s
 By 1913 the graduating class was about IS and the high school depart ment was seeing its last year. Courses and departments were taking form The agricultural building was under construction. A number of fine high schools had grown up about the state and new ones were con- stantly planned. University week had already come into existence but had not as yet assumed great pro- portions
 Such was the setting into which Dr. R. B. von KleinSnid came in the summer of 1914. From then on there has been a concerted direction of eff fort toward complete educational system. We realize that the present result is the naturalization of leaders vision that he has held be- fore us always a banner, near and within our achievement, to serve as immediate inspiration.
 The Student Body
 During the present administration many changes have occurred in the university. Perhaps the first was the introduction of the daily assem- bly, the president saying that it was his job to meet the students every day and have a clearing house of campus forces. He began an honor system with the students. When a | traditional prank was staged he had within half day, the names of the students doing it with their written confessions. gentleman down town once pointed him out to me and said. You see that man? He knows what you are thinking about before you say word" His genius with stu dents is not often surpassed. On one occasion an age-old class difference | had reached the point of open con- flict, without apparent hope of set 1 clement. Some class leaders ap- I peared before him and he = ked but one question. They could not answer the conflict died.
 1 His cherished plan of handling stu dent matters has been to have com l PiCLc 1OlIil Ol SL0QCliI CIAl SONS SIn- ment under a properly authorized constitution. This is realized today and so far has stood the great test of abolishment of hazing 1921). The l existence of hazing is certain to bring a severe crisis sooner or later in the history of any student body.
 The Faculty
 While the development of the stu i dent body was progressing, the in I ternal organization of the faculty was revised to meet the tests of 1 rapidly growing institution. The first achievement was the success in l bringing to a state of fair equality of l power to three colleges, permitting the free development of each in prop CT shape. Deans and faculties be- long to each college, and to the group l the college of education and it's dean have been added (1921). Other en- terprises of the university, the Stew | ard observatory, the state museum the agricultural experiment station and the various extension services, with lectures and correspondence courses are in charge of directors The state bureau of mines and the United States bureau of mines ex- pertinent station are housed in the engineering building.
 Two pieces of organization stand
 out prominently. First, plan of
 organization" of the faculties ex-
 pressing the relationships between
 the many different parts Of the uni
 versity and providing for a Judiciary
 committee with power of appeal to
 the board of regents. This protection
 promises a stable and satisfied fac
 ulty for years to come. The second
 accomplishment which will be of great
 and long continued service was the act of the state legislature making
 membership on the board of regents
 Of eight years duration, with regu-
 lar succession of appointments o1
 two members every two years. This
 overlapping membership insures con
 tinuity of policy, so that an under
 taking may be commenced ever
 though years are required to accom-
 plish it.
 In his relations with the facult,
 the president has been keenly sym
 pathetic and by his cooperation ha'
 made each one feel that indlvidua
 ambition is recognized and indlvidua
 work assisted, because 1t is valued
 part of the construction of greate
 Arizona. In that very difficult worl
 of securing advisable changes in tn
 eaculty. gentleness and consideration
 have been most prominen l hav'
 seen him stage a real play In orde