DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, December 6, 1940
' Be Proud Nebraskans
LEditoi's Note: The reappearance of spring made us long for the bees and flow
ers, so we took a day off. The article below summarizes much better than we could,
a condition you should all recognize and in which you should all be interested. It was
written for the February Issue of the Nebraska alumnus by Mr. Ellsworth DuTeau,
university alumni secretary.
Seventy-one years ago Feb. 15, in what was little more than a prairie nam
let on the windblown pTains, there was founded the institution known as the
University of Nebraska. It was a one building school, its structure being ap
propriately called University hall. There is little left of that historic memorial
but old "U Hall Tower" remains etched against the skyline of our campus
memories, for as Flora Bullock, 7, so eloquently put it in her poem, it was a
"Brave old Tower
Serene and wise and kind,
Gazing for 50 years across a prairie land,
From whence came trooping1 eager boys and girls.
Ton called them in for blessing,
You called them in for blessing,
For mothering a while.
Fifty years. And now
A lonely place againt the sky."
Yes, now tradition, for it is no more. Over the eampus, in those days, there
grtw the prairie violet, recalled by Edna Bullock, 89, in this issue. Neighbor
hood cows grazed complacently over the modest campus unworried by their
nearness to the growing pains of learning that ceased the faces of the eager
boys and girls. A board fence was built to separate the campus from the out
side world, and the walks leading up to U hall were made of loose gravel and
pebbles. A few struggling trees graced the enclosure. Thus was the University
of Nebraska presented to its students and passers-by during its early years.
Not until 1886 did another structure appear. In that year the new science
building, now the College of Pharmacy was completed, and the growth of
Nebraska university made its first declaration to its peoples. Since then it
has grown from two buildings to sixty three, from one campus to three, from
a freshman class of 106 to 2,052, from a graduating class of 28 to 1,324, from
a total enrolment of a few hundred to approximately 7,000 and from four
and one-half acres of campus to more than 400, not to mention the 4,700
acres of experimental farm lands it owns.
Yet, it isn't by size we measure a school, or the acres its campus extends,
but by its worth as a seat of learning, by its quality, its recognition, the fel
lowship it enjoys in the educational world. And Nebraskans can be proud of
their Alma Mater, proud to admit they were students in the great prairie
6chool that is known for its standards.
In 1909 it became a member of the Association of American Universities,
attesting the quality of its accredited standing. It is today one of the 33
members of the Association. It is a member of the North Central Association,
It ranks eighth among state universities and colleges. This, we are informed,
Is a "valid criterion of intellectual leadership," an index of a university's
performance as enunciated by its alumni in their fields of citizenship and
endeavor. - (
From the institution that was housed in one building in an enclosure thai
embodied four blocks, over 70 years ago, there have gone thousands of boys
and girls who have become outstanding men and women. Today the alumni
list of the University of Nebraska reaches higher than 52,000, scattered to the
four corners of the nation and the earth. Twenty thousand have made Ne
braska their permanent home. More than 1,000 reside in Chicago and vicinity,
almost 500 in New York, 700 in Southern California, 500 in Denver, over 200
in Kansas City, 124 in Council Bluffs, 145 in Tulsa, and thus the list reads on.
Nebraska University has produced 52,000 citizens for this country and, look
where you will, in business, in professions, the field of citizenship you will
vfind Nebraska's record good. In fact, as a state, Nebraska ranks third in pro
duction of illustrious men and women.
The pioneer spirit burns brightly in the heart of the native Nebraskan,
and it remains a steady glow in the heart of every Cornhusker, native born or
not Seven years of drouth have not weakened his faith in the state or his
genuine interest in the university. The hot winds have come and gone leaving
the problems of state, of business, and of education more acute with the pass
ing of the Thirsty Thirties but the Cornhusker, greatly heartened by the wel
come snows of this winter as 1940 gets underway, begins again to build his
dreams. The state university can scarcely fail to reflect this indomitable char
acter, this stalwart, courageous spirit that meets life wtih its chin up and eyes
to the sun, that keeps its vigil as old U Hall Tower did 50 years, "gazing
across ajprairie land from whence came trooping eager boys and girls" gaz
ing until its supports began to weaken under their burden, until wind and rain
and the relentless elements made it relinquish its proud watch that had seen
more than 50 years of growth and generations of students, of those who left
its grounds in noisy groups to return singly, poised and greyed by the world
for which the university had equipped them.
Sometimes those who go farther and farther away, wlvo seldom if ever
return, forget that the university follows their trails, their careers on thru
the years, proud of their achievements, hopeful for their futures. Sometimes
they forget that the university needs their continued affection, their inter
est, their loyalty, their active allegiance. When one is graduated from the
university, or leaves it permanently as a student, he does not leave the uni
versity behind; he is merely graduated into the citizenship of the alumni,
into the permanent association of the university's sons and dughters. Some
forget to hold their membership in the university family. But the call will
someday reach even these remote members of the family and they will heed
the call.
Yes, Nebraska University has, for the most part, done its work well, ex
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