The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-08

Administration Building, that ever
the students of earlier days have come
81 to solace their sorrow with the cur
of rejoicing on the advent of g
broader program for the University.
Faculty.
AS for faculty, l look back with
profound admiration upon the men
and women whom the University was
! able to draw. On the opening day
October 8, 1892 there were but two
members of the faculty, DR.. Franklin
B. Gault and Prof. j. B. OStrander.
One week later, October 10, Miss
. Annette Bowman and 1:ss Nellie G.
Brown were added as instructors.
This faculty was augmented by the
addition of Prof. Robert S. Millikin
October 24) and DR.. G. w. McCurdy
(February 10, 1899 The foregoing
constituted the faculty Of the Univer-
sity during the first year with the
exception of student instructors,
whose number, as I recall, was not
greater than two. The University was
limited financially. 1t could not pay
attractive salaries, and for many
years, while efficient and able educa-
tors were brought to the institution,
too often the institution came to be
but a training school from which the
I professors and instructors were
drawn to some other university
n Then, too, the state was young.
Standards and ideals touching higher
education had not been established to
such an extent as to constitute a con-
trolling influence, and the University
was not free from the baneful effect
of jealousies upon the part of adher
Of
part of sections of the state remote
from Moscow whose people were am
bilious to relocate the leading educa-
tional institution of Idaho or split
up the colleges Of the University and
scatter them throughout the state.
During the first ten years of the
University there were three presi-
dents, DR.. Franklin B. Gault, Dr.JI
Joseph P. Blanton, and DR.. James A.
MacLean, all Of them scholarly and
able, all of them earnest and resource
full, all of them patient builders who
were working against tremendous
odds and who day by day and year
| by year moulded and shaped public |
sentiment, chose and organized the
personnel of rapidly changing facul- |
ties, and instructed and encouraged |
young men and women who were
literally starving for the want of high /
school and more advanced educational
opportunities.
Student Body.
Someone has defined university as
a rough log with an earnest student
on one end and Mark Hopkins on the
other. We had more than the rough i
log the first year and increasingly
more by the end of the first ten years.
We had earnest faculty members; we
had limited equipment; but the stu-
dents during the first year and most
of them for several years were not
advanced sufficiently to enter a uni
versity doing standard college work.
During the year 1928 the total en-
rollment was 125, of which Is were
listed as carrying college courses and
ITO as carrying work that today is
offered by high schools and the grades.
The first class to graduate was the Il
class of 1896, and assuming that the
members of the class had the normal
work required for college entrance,
it would mean that they entered as /:
freshmen in 1892, and thus, the men,
bers of the class of 1896 were the
" grave and reverend" students Of the I
University to whom more than a hun
dred other students paid homage on
dCCOuuI OIL Cuelr distinguished dCCd1n-
ments and scholarship. a oA
At that time, aside from the courses
offered in the college proper, most
of which were limited to students do
ing freshmen work, the University was
compelled to maintain a preparatory !
or academy with three
year course, and in addition, sub
group in which entered
who had no better prepare
ton than that afforded today by the
sixth to eighth grades in the public
schools and the fresmen year in high
schools. This was because thete were
few high schools in the entire state
1oing full four-year high school work.
Some schools did not pretend to go
lbove the grammar grades while
others we're able to handle one or two
years Of high school courses and some
Il these and still others were able to
10 high school work in spots, that Is,
lush a student we'll through mathema-
les that would be offered by any high
choOl, and leave him deficient in
else to match.