THE HESPERIAN
A YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY. appellation of the "library building."
Work on the building was immediately bo-
Tho University year which is just closing gun and is being pushed with vigor, and
has been notable in more ways than one. this new building will be completed, if
It opened with an increase in attendance nothing unexpected hinders, by the 1st of
which, considering all the circumstances, next September.
W38 remarkable. Last year with an attend
ance of about 1,100 it was believed that not
a student more could be accommodated.
The University, which was calculated to be
able to care for not more than 800 students
was 300 over the limit, and a further in-
With this building completed the Uni
versity will bo just fairly able to take care
the number of students already in attend;
ance. And now after these two results, a
greatly increased attendance and an assur
ance of the ability to take care of that
crease in attendance was deemed something attendance next year, there came another
to be rigorously discouraged. Accordingly event of great importance to the University.
the regency, the chancellor, the faculty and
the students all combined in an attempt to
keep the attendance within the bounds
already reached until further accommoda
tions could bo provided.
Chancellor Canfield, who, almost by his
own unaided efforts had made the first two
events possible, also furnished the third; he
resigned his place as head of the University.
It had been known for a year and more
Nevertheless, despite everything that was that the University of Ohio was anxious to
done and that 'could be done, the present secure him, but it was believed by almost
school year has seen the number of students every one at all interested in the subject that
swelled to almost 1,500, with every indica- Chancellor Canfield would stay with us for
tion that there are hundreds more of young at least two or three years more,- -for dur-
men and young women throughout the state ing the next two or three years the Uni-
ready and eager to come, and who are only versity will pass through its "critical period."
staying away because of the extremely dis- On the skill, sagacity and foresight of the
couraging information that was given them man at the head from now on, it will in a
by all who knew of the crowded condition great measure depend whether the great
of the University. Thia great increase in educational institution of the west is to be
attendance filled the already crowded do- builded up here in Nebraska, or whether
partments to the brim and more too and as our University is to bo mediocre if no
a rational result they ran over the edges, worse, certainly no better than the univer-
"Departments" and department rooms were
almost obliterated.
Because of this crowded condition which
made the beat work impossible and good
sities of our sister states.
What will be the outcome? To answer
this question another must be asked: Can a
man bo found who can take the place of
Chancollor Canfield 1 If such a man is
work verv difficult, which impaired the eye
sight and destroyed the good health of scores found the future of the University as the
nf tnr1ont the authorities were driven to Sruat univurauy oi mu west jh assuruu.
If
he is not found why, we'll have a univer
sity as good as that of Kansas pr Iowa or
Kalamazoo, anyhow.
renewed and vigorous attempts to provide
for more room and bettor accommodations.
As a result, after weeks of hard and some
times almost despairing lobbying, button-
holing and persuasion tho legislature was Professor Barbour is getting up an oxcur-
induced to appropriate some $70,000 for the sion to go to tho Black Hills. His, students
completion of that disgraceful ruin which are all anxious to go since seeing his splendid
has been diefiguring tho campus under tho views of tho place.
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