THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1916.
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University of Nebraska Shows Growth With State's Increase I
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Graduates of the University of Ne
braska are in every town of the state,
and scattered to the four corners of
the earth, and thousands more who
attended the institution, but who did
not graduate, are located from one
-boundary of Nebraska to the other.
The good which this institution has
accomplished is tremendous. It has
been most wholesome and most wide
spread during the last several years,
it will be even more so in the fu
ture. The claim has been made, in other
states, that their state universities did
not get close to the people, that they
did not give the training that the
bulk of the people desired their sons
and daughters to nave.
That charge cannot stand against
the University of Nebraska. That big
school has met every requirement
most admirably, and the board of re
gents and the faculty of the insti
tution have at all times co-operated
with the end in view of serving the
people in the most efficient manner
possible.
The fact that these officials have
adhered to that course is responsible
for the signal success attained in this
respect. In law, in medicine, in all
the arts and sciences, the courses
have been strengthened from time to
time as new lines have developed and
as modern ideas have come intOs edu
cation from year to year. The Uni
versity of Nebraska has keep apace
with the demands of the hour. The
institution has been shaped to meet
the growing needs of the state.
There is a direct connection be
tween cause and effect, too, in the
fact that legislatures from biennial
period to biennial period appropriate
more money for this institution than
for any other single activity in the
state. The people demand that the
big school shall be well provided for
and 'that nothing needed to give the
students greater, opportunity shall be
kept from them.
It is the people's mandate and the
legislators therefore in making huge
appropriations are doing only the bid
ding of their employers, knowing that
for every cent expended there will be
great returns reaped in a stronger cit
izenship, and in a happier and more
contented people.
The old school has few traditions
when compared to some of the older
schools in the east, but if there is one
which may be said to have been ap
parent during the last few years it is
that of casting a decided influence
over the affairs of th' state. !ts in
terests have been more firmly joined
to the best interests of the state than
any other activity. .
The men it has released to the
world have been among the state's
best friends. They have been among
those who gave most to the state in
effort, and while few of them are
listed as pioneers of this common
wealth, they have continued the work
which their fathers started before
them in a wav to dnw forth nraise
from their predecessors.
Admittedly, in the realm of public
life, the state of Nebraska has done
much more for its people than any
other state of the union and more
genuinely advance steps have been
taken, here than in anv other tat
The university influence has been at
tne root ot most ot these movements.
University graduates or attendants
have advocated them, and university
men have helped battle for them and
carry them into effect after they have
been enacted by the lawgivers.
Where there is ground yet to cover
there are found university men ad
vocating the changes which the people
most need, and to which they are
most entitled. The university ele
ment is in no sense factional nor even
partisan. It is unselfish. It is eager.
It is possessed of the desire to do the
best things for the greatest number.
It is altruistic in the highest sense.
Nor have the university inflences
been restricted to this realm. In
business, in law, in medicine, in fine
arts, the men have made good and
the women in those lines, too.
Bu,t more particularly have the
"co-eds" made happy homes in the
state To homestead cabin among
lonesome sand hills, to mansions in
Omaha and Lincoln there have been
university girls sent, and they have
made the homes just a little brighter,
just a Hittle better because of their
contact with the univtrsity.
They have strayed far from do
mestic science classes during their
college years and the fine art of bring
ing up babies may have been utterly
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subordinated to their French and lit
erature, but they have made better
mothers and better wives because of
the scholastic advantages which they
enjoyed briefly or lengthily, as the
case might be.
This influence is extensive, as has
been said. It has been increasing
most appreciably during the last four
or five years and with the general
upward trend in higher education is
due to increase more in the future.
Fathers who had partial or complete
college training will see that their
boys get there and mothers who had
their year or years of contact with
the university will want their daugh
ters to go there, too.
The university is at the apex of
Nebraska's most comprehensive
school system. It is the crown, the
cap sheaf. It has been made to fit
in with the general scheme. The step
from the high school to the universi
ty is sometimes deemed a long one in
an educational way. It is in other
ways only a continuation, a promo
tion as even and as regular as from
one grade to another in the schools.
lhe schools ot the state tit boys
and girls to fit themselves for life
work. The university is the place
where they are given the opportunity
to fit themselves. The schools are
passive, in a way, tor the learning
outside pressure. In the university the
learnign begins to assume the active
aspect the outside pressure is there,
but the student there begins to fit
himself to absorb and reach out for
this learning, and to make efforts to
get it. He is successful only so far as
he shows a desire .o meet the teach
ers half way and to accept and digest
what they offer, and to eagerly go
ahead seeking more.
Therein the institution becomes a
most acceptable supplement to edu
cation, the final process which
though different than the earlier
processes is still the most satisfy
ing. The state university offers
young men and women of the state a
new life. Those who are wealthy and
who have the means to attend anv
institution in the land can find some
thing there to keep their attention
and to make them the better for going-
Those who are poor find at the Lin
coln school the greatest possible
amount of encouragement. It is the
school where poor students can show
the mettle they are made of it is one
school where is placed in the stu
dent's own hands his very destiny.
There he can either make himself
or throw himself away.
The choice of work is large. The
incoming student can fit himself for
is forced upon the student from an any profession or for any calling.
AUGUST MOLZER 1
Director
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State Fair Visitors
Are Cordially Invited to Make
Their Down-Town Headquarters While in Lincoln
We hope you will accept the hospitality of this store and test the
cordiality of our welcome. We maintain a number of FREE com
forts and conveniences that will appeal especially to visiting women
and children. All Depot Cars pass directly in front of 'our doors. '
Free Check Stand. Free Rest Room. Free Stationery.
Free Edison Concerts. Free Telephones. Free Delivery to Depot. Information.
Realizing that among the thousands of State Fair Visitors many will
want to supply their Fall and Winter needs, the supreme efforts of
our organization have been, for many months, directed towards anti
cipating their requirements. We have 17 different departments.
Practically Everything for the Home, Man, Woman and Child.
engineering, in law, In sciences, in
arts, in agriculture, in medicine or in
business the beginner may find the
studies necessary to carry him to the
top. They are taught by competent,
sympathetic men and women.
The equipment is good, the at
mosphere of the town and of the
campus is of the best. The oppor
tunities, in a word, are as ideal as
they can be found anywhere on dear
old Mother Earth. If the student
cannot go ahead under the inspira
tion of alt these advantages he is
handicapped by outside matters then
which should have no place in his life
as a student.
Cultural work and vocational work
are given with equal sincerity at the
Lincoln school. The members of the
faculty there pride themselves on
their ability and their desire to give
instruction successfully to both those
who are catering to the so-called
more "refined" instincts and those
who are hewing out their own future
by preparing for it in a spirit of mod
ern commercialism.
The faculty members apply them
selves just as much m teaching He
brew, in other words, as they do in
giving an engineer a clear under
standing on running curves on rail
road location, or in interpreting the
signs of crop movements so that he
can obtain the best possible price for
his wheat.
It is of just as much importance
that the girl who wants to dissect
events leading up to the French revo
lution and to search for similar ten
dencies in our own people shall do
so with all university aides at her el
bow as that the more practical
minded girl shall know whether to
put two or three or only one spoon
ful of baking powder into a batch of
wheat pancakes for half a dozen
breakfasters.
Legislators have tried to make
some of the people think that a wide
difference existed between the town
and the country of the state, and that
the University city and farm cam
puses divided a class which could
never, never mix.
AH of this is bosh. Lives there a
man with hands so calloused from
toil with the plow or the corn planter
that never to himself he has said,
some day 1 11 wear falm Beaches
and be chauffeur in my own touring
car." Of course not I So has there
never lived a farmer in this state who
hasn't said that he could and would
hold his own in the society of the
state when given the opportunity. So
there isn't a farmer lad but who feels
and knows he can associate with the
city campus young men and women
and that he really longs for the op
portunity to come for him to do so.
The university is a democratic insti
tution. It has been so from the day
it first threw its doors open to the
young people of this state. It will
always have to be if it shall exist as
a state institution. It was organized
with the aim of making the state bet
ter to live in through giving the
people higher education and equip
ping them with the weapons they
need in all kinds of battles from those
combats with the soil and the sun
shine and the showers to those in the
highest intellectual realms.
The faculties from year to year
have sought to keep that aim upper
most. The faculty of the present
time has it no less than did the first
faculty the only difference is that
the present instructoral staff hat
more at its command with which to
carry on its labor. I
Nebraska is one great farmland'
most of Nebraska's population, were-!
fore, a great farmer. The institution
thought of this early in its organiza
tion, and it provided for teaching Ne
liraskans all it could about the tilling I
of the soil and the planting of crops
so that the earth would produce the
moit end the most money would be.
gathered into the farmer's strong box.
harming is a science, according to
the lieliei expressed by one Nebraska
tradesman who visited the big farm
institution at Lincoln one day, and
who realized that efforts made there,
to produce good farmers in the stats
are just as comprehensive and as
methodical as in the making of a doe1
tor or a preacher.
The farmer is taught how to pick
soil first for the various crops. He is
taught how to plant and how to ro
tate them, how to choose teams with
which to do the work, how to buy
machinery and how to keep it, and
how to take care of the grain as it
grows, how to harvest it and store it
and how to market it. He is taught,
too, how to feed animals to ge the
most work out of them; how to breed
them for the strongest offspring, and
how to construct his farm buildings
so that he can do the most work In
the least time and without constantly
wasting money day by day making
false moves.
He is taught, at the farm, how to
combat diseases which exists among
his animals or in his grain, he is
taught how to supplement his chief
industry with the secondary farm in
dustries, such as raising poultry and
vegetables and dairying and he is
given practical demonstrations galote
in the direct returns to be gathered
in by those who farm according to
some rule and to see, too, the losses
that may come and do come to those
who farm without any rules at all
or with precious little observance of
the few rules they do know.
All of this is done at the state farm
and farm bookkeeping is given
along with it for the boys, and there
are elaborate courses given for the
R respective farm wife. She is taught
ow to feed hired men the most
strengthening foods and to cut out
the food that leaves them helpless
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The University of Nebraska
OPENS SemStefir,t
Wednesday, September 1 3th, 1916
One may enter also at the beginning of the second semester (about
Feb. 1st) or the summer session (usually the first full week in June)
The University of Nebraska includes
the following colleges and schools:
THE GRADUATE COLLEGE A four-year
course leading to Master of Arts and Doctor of Phil
osophy. Work may be pursued without reference
to a degree.
THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
A four-year course leading to the degree of Bache
lor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.
THE TEACHERS COLLEGE A four-year
course leading to the Teachers College Diploma.
Students register in this college in the Sophomore
year at the same time retaining identity in another
college of the University, which grants the degree of
Bachelor of Arts or of Science simultaneous with
the granting of the Teachers College Diploma by the
Teachers College. Thus, throughout his Sophomore,
Junior and Senior years the student is registered in
two colleges.
THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE In
cludes general agricultural and general home eco
nomics groups. A four-year course leading to the
degree of Bachelor of Science. Also a two-year
course in Agriculture.
THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING A four
year course leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Engineering, Agricultural, Architectural,
Civil, Electrical, Mechanical. Also a six-year Academic-Engineering
course.
THE COLLEGE OF LAW A three-year course
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Laws. One year
of academic work in addition to full entrance is re
quired for admission to this college. Also a com
bined Academic-Law course leading to the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in four years, and to the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in six years. Work is also of
fered leading to the degree of Doctor of Jurispru
dence. THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE A four-year
course in Omaha leading to the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. A six-year course leading to the Bache
lor's degree and the degree of Doctor of Medicine,
the first two years being offered in Lincoln.
THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Two-year
and three-year courses. Also a four-year course
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Pharmacy.
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCA
TION Course leading to the degree of Master of
Arts and Doctor of Philosophy and to the Graduate
Teachers Diploma. This school is a part of the
Graduate College and is designed to prepare for the
higher service in teaching.
THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE A four-year
course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, de
signed to provide vocational training for student?
preparing to enter business or allied lines of work. -1
THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS A four-year
cultural course, including the Fine Arts leading to
the Bachelor's degree.
THE TEACHERS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
A high grade school of secondary rank offering
splendid opportunities to a LIMITED riun&er of the
most desirable students. Being the trailing school
of the Teachers College admission can be had only
on written application.
THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE A sec
ondary school training primarily for practical farm
life.
THE SUMMER SESSION An eight-week
course primarily for teachers.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION Courses offered
in many departments for which college credit is
granted. Work in this department may be taken to
meet preparatory requirements.
The Nebraska Experiment Station, the Ne
braska School of Agriculture at Curtis, and the Ex-'
perimental Sub-Stations at North Platte, Valentine
and Scottsbluff are also in charge of the Board of
Regents.
On any point of information, address
Station "A."
The Registrar
Lincoln, Neb.
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