The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-19
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UNIVERSITY NOTES

UNIVERSITY NOTES
Plans have been submitted for the
new law school building for which APP
preparation was made at the last leg
islature. The cost will be about
$15O,O0O according to present specifi-
cations. The location is not definite
ly settled upon, but it is thought that
it will be north Of the chemistry
building. The contracts will be let
sometime in early spring so that work
will be we'll advanced by next fall.
George Grain of Granville and Err
nest Hurd, of the University, of Grand
Forks, have left for Beunos Aires,
South America, to take up work IN
the University there. This is In ac-
cordance with an arrangement made
between the two universities, which
calls for an exchange of two students
every two years.
Miss Emily Martin returned to
Grand Forks last Monday, to resume
her studies here at the University.
Miss Martin has been i'll with dlph-
liberia for the past three weeks.
The second annual inter-sorority
party was given in the University
armory last Saturday night. The
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority enter
tanned all the other sorOrities at the
affair.
Miss Adelaide O'Kell of Wesley
College of Music, will give the first
of her three lecture recitals in Wood
worth auditorium tonight. The first
lecture recital is on "Tannhauser,"
the second is Christian and Isolde, and
the last is "Parsifal'.
January 9, 1922, is the seventeenth
anniversary of the affiliation of Wes--
ley College and the University of
North Dakota.
When Wesley College became CO.
ordinated with the University in
1905, it was the first time in the
history of America that an institution
of higher education under church aus
pices, was ever affiliated with civic
educational institution.
"The University made the ad-
vances," said DR.. E. P. Robertson,
president of Wesley college, in dis;
cussing the anniversary. ut invited
us to move our institution from Wah-
peton to Grand Forks"
AT the time of this invitation, in
1900, Wesley College, though, as now,
a Methodist college, was known as
the Red River Valley University, and
was located at Wahpeton, N. D. It
was then nine years old, having re-
ceived it's charter in 1891. At a
Methodist conference held in 1900, the
idea Of coordinating the two schools
was presented to the conference by
President Webster Merrifeld Of the
University of North Dakota.
Not until 1905 however, did Red
River Valley University accept the in
vitation, and at that time the trustees
of the school turned over their build
ing to the Wahpeton School of Sci
ence, and made preparations for a
building across from the University
campus. A substantial fund of $780,
900 had been previously raised with
a view to. changing the location of the
college. In 1907 Sayre Hall was COM
pleted, and the work of the institu-
ton was continued in it's present site.
Students go from class at the Uni
versity Of North Dakota across the
street to classes at Wesley College
and an exchange Of credits is allow
ed by both institutions. Wesley pro-
vides instruction in religion, music,
and expression.
civic and church," DR.. Robertson says.
"The scholastic attachments and func-
tons belonging to each should be
recognized and accorded their credit.
"At present state universities are
incomplete which do not recognize the
church's Importance in the education
of young people. The medieval uni
versities all had their colleges of the
ology. In new state like North Da-
kota this problem is vital and prac-
teal one. North Dakota educators
have gone long way toward the ideal
situation in their coordination of the
civic and religious through the rela-
tionship of the University and Wesley