The Mankato free press., 1921-09-30
Large Attendance For the
Minnesota "U"
CLASSES ARE READY
Work Starts Wednesday Under
Particularly Favorable
Circumstances
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatchl


Minneapolis, Mimi. September 26-
approximately 5000 students viii be-
in attendance al the University of
of Minnesota when the school year
opens Wednesday. university author
tiles estimated yesterday at the close
Of the registration for first year men
and women. The classes have been
filled rapidly, the several colleges are
fully prepared to open their courses,
repairs to buildings and grounds have
been completed and the general out
look for the, year is said 20 De partic-
ularly bright.
The university is opening this
year under particularly favorable cir
cumstances." l.. d. Coffman, presl-
dent OF the university, declared.
Quence exist in the faculty. The ap
preparations granted by the last legis
lature have enabled the university TO
purchase the necessary equipment aid
supplies. The new addition to the
Chemistry building will be completed
, in time for work early in the fall
quarter, and the additions to the Hor-
1iculture and Plant Pathology Build
ingS on the Farm Campus will be ready
ter. There is a spirit and morale
throughout the university, among both
students and faculty, such as has not
existed since 1914. 1t is spirit which
makes for studentship."
Seniors, juniors and sophomores in
Work In Mines School
the School of Mines have already TAX
el. UP the fall work. The sophomores,
as --as been the custom at the univer~
SifU o. q ling dava nf
sive military training in order to fill
the requirement of military training
, uuring the sophomore year.
The junior ana seniors are prepar
ing reports required as part of the
course on work inspected by them on
the Minnesota ranges and in the
Black Hills of South Dakota and the
Homesteak Mine at Pueblo, Colo. in
the latter place, the students left the
district only a few days before the
Pueblo floods.
The new students commencing claS
es Wednesday and the returning stud
ents will find the university a poor
place for the lazy or shiftless student,
but an institution bent on well de-
fined policy of internal economies and
with rigid standards of scholarship, &C
eording to DR.. Coifmann.
Change of Attitude
There were times during the past
few years." he said, when it SEEM
ed that educational institutions might
be diverted from the purpose for which
they were established. Other issues,
problems and obligations, gigantic in
importance, at times overshadowed
the primary functions OF the university
but those are gradually being dissipa
ted. Just what has been responsible
for this change of attitude, it is ditfi
cult to say, but ii seems that the uni
versal attempt to renaDIlitaIe the In
dustrieS of peace, and to pay the debts
of war, is gradually bringing sanity
of judgment, and demand for pos
session of facts concerning the over
whelming political, social and econo-
mic problems with which we are faced,
all of which find eXpressinon in the
atmosphere Of the institutional life of
the university.
During the last few years the uni
yersities have been far more CO H.
cerned with their growth and with the
ability of the states or continue to fin
ance them, than with any ther one
thing. Now lit seems that they are
directing their attention more to in
ternal economies and to the stan
dards of scholarship that they should
maintain. This is as it should be. We
do not know at the University of
Minnesta how many students we shall
have this year and we are not greatly
interested in that subject. We are far
more interested in the quality Of the
students who come to us and in the
quality of those who are graduated by