The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-05-27
u. OF, M. AMONG
NATIONS FINEST
Fifty-eight Years of Progress
Reflected In Institutions
Development.
BY 1. D. COLEMAN

BY L. o. COLEMAN
President, The University of Minnesota
Ranking high in any list of state
assets and advantages is the Univer-
sity Of Minnesota, which has attained
national eminence in the So years of
its existence and in many fields has
a strong, international reputation.
Maintained chiefly to offer every adj
vantage CT higher education to the
more than 100000 residents of Min
nesota, from whom 1t draws an over
whelming percentage of its attend
ance, the university last year enrolled
14,400 students in its regular courses,
including the summer terms. Addi-
tional enrollments in schools Of agri-
culture, short courses, extension class
es and su. jects taught by mail brought
the total to approximately $4,000 per-
sons.
A Statewide Institution
The University of Minnesota is
statewide institution in every sense. 1t
not only draws students from every
county and nearly every community in
the state, but has branches in many
parts of Minnesota. Three miles from
the main campus in Minneapolis, yet
situated in st. Paul, lies University
Farm, center of the agricultural re-
search work and instruction of the
institution. Here, in addition to the
splendid experimental farm of more
than 600 acres, are the College of Agri-
culture, Forestry and Home Econom-
les, the Central Experiment Station,
and the Central School of Agriculture.
The Lake States Forest Experiment
Station, maintained by the United
States, is housed at University Farm.
From this center, also, is conducted
the work of the widespread Agricul-
tural Extension Division and much of
the work of the Minnesota county
agricultural agents.
There are Schools of Agriculture,
with adjacent experimental farms, at
Crookston, in the Red River Valley,
at Morris, in west central Minnesota,
and at Grand Rapids, at the western
end of the Messabi Range. Other ex-
detrimental farms are maintained at
Duluth and at Waseca, in south GEN.
trail Minnesota. The university oper-
ates the State Experimental Cream.
cry at Albert Lea. At Zumbra Heights,
near Lake Minnetonka, is maintained
the fruit breeding farm and expert
ment station. The Forest Experiment
Station, and connected forest tract
for study purposes, is at Cloquet, 80
miles west of Duluth.
Colleges devoted to most of the prin.
cipal fields of education and. research
are maintained by the University Of
Minnesota on its Main Campus in
Minneapolis. The College of Science,
Literature, and the Arts, or central
collegiate division, offers instruction
to those who seek chiefly a liberal
education and gives the foundation
work to those who plan to branch off
into one of the professional schools
after a few years. 1t conducts, also,
a number of special, vocational courses,
such as journalism, training for the
consular service, training for library
work, for social service, and the like.
Its department Of music, housed in a
new building offers courses in all fields
of music.
Medical School Important
The Medical School, with its large
University Hospital, enrolls approx
been a leader in many progressive
movements in medical education, in
Guiding the now general requirement
that students must serve an inferno
ship of year before they finally re.
ceive the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine. The Medical School in its post
graduate phase enjoys the advantages
of the Mayo Foundation of $2,000,000,
with which go opportunities for grad
uate study in the practice and science
of medicine in the large Mayo estab-
Hshments at Rochester, Minnesota.
By the work of its Mines Expert
ment Station, the School of Mines has
taken a place at the top in this coun-
try in improving methods of treating
iron ores and especially in problems
connected with the benefciation of
ore of the lower grades so that it may
be made available for commerce. Min.
nesota miners and biologists are at
work in the mineral fields of many
parts of the world.
The College of Engineering and
Architecture provides instruction in
most of the principal engineering
fields, including electrical, mechani-
cal, and civil. In it's Experiment Sta
ton it houses the tests and inspection
laboratory OF the State Highway De-
partment.
Other major units are the School
of Business Administration, College of
Education, School of Chemistry, Col.
lege of Dentistry, College of Phar-
macy, Law School and the General
Extension Division.
important Part In Development
The tourist from Kansas or Ohio,
rolling through the fertile Minnesota
countryside on paved highway built
of material inspected by university
instructor, will pass fields of corn,
wheat, oats and barley of varieties de-
veloped at University Farm; schools
taught by graduates of the university;
windbreaks planted in accordance
with advice from the department of
forestry; lakes whose species will
eventually be preserved as a result
of university studies in fish food and
the prevention of water pollution.
Without stopping to give the matter
thought, he will pass through delight
full Minnesota towns whose water and
sewage systems and other public
works have been planned by members
of the university faculty or private
engineers who obtained their training
at the University of Minnesota. He
will see attractive dairy farms, oper.
ated in accordance with principles
laid down by the C.llege of Agricul.
ture, and ample evidences of the pros
perity that is being brought to the
state by wise agricultural policies.