Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1915, Page 12

Lincolmn BY P AL BARROWS, F the city of Lincoln advance 80 swiftly in the mext thirt years as it has in the last twenty, few cities In the coun. | try will be able to compan with 1t In any half century of existence along educational lines Nebraska has borne the distinction for many years of having the smallest per- centage of illiteracy of any state in the unfon, but whether this s due to the educational advantages which the people of the state enjoyed, because of the high grade of its state univers ty, or becaus. of the system enjoyed by the state at large, s & problem wnich can only be unswered by giving both the credit. Nebraska was fortunate in having men to start it on Its way as a state who were optimistic. At the time It was con- sidered foolishly so. But later years have developed the fact that they bullt bet- ter than they know and those who have lived to see this work materialize are not backward In giving them great credit for thelr fars ghtedness. Magnificent Endowment of Schools, When Nebraska set aside two sections in every township, the proceeds of lease and sale to be devoted to education, it put in force a system which has enabled the state to establish one of the best odueativnal systems In the country, untfl today the receipts from the lands set aside enables the state to distribute to its school children nearly $1,000,00 an- nually, thus assisting the districts to pay better salaries to teachers and give the children of the state better educa- tional advantages in the county schools. Naturelly as they recelve good educa- tions in the country schools, they ndvance higher and because of this Lincoln has bullt up a great educational center, where schools and colleyes abound and where the very best Is given to the child- | Tea of the state. Not only does Ne- braska give her own young wen and women opportunities for success In Iife, but outside states have for years recognized the educational advantages offered In Lincoln und hundreds of students come to its volleges and uni- versities, not only from other states In | thousands of dollars in highly improved |etty property lying next to the present eampus on which In the future will be orected bulldings costing millions of dol- |lars. Already the state has invested in {its univerity over 33,600,000 and con- acts are being let for others running up into half a million moré, Beventeen bulldings comprise the pres- ent university on the ecity oampus | Within these buildings are registered an- ‘nually between 3500 and 4000 students. | Connected with the university are nearly 50 people acting in one capacity or an- other, officers, Instructors, clerks, mes- | sengers, jan'tors, superintendents, etc., university, what it realy s, the best in |the west and one of the best In the country, Though not located In Lincoln, the ‘a Gre | M1 dolng their part,toward making the | THE BEE: OMATA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910, Couner Universi fy ] 000 This has since Increased to some- | thing like $300,000 and steps are on foot to inecrease it o §500,000 State Next to the stat n |the minds of a great many people of Nebraska, equal In Importance, Is the State Agricultural school. The bulldings of this institution are situated about two miles from the main university on a 320- | acre tract, the southwest portion being used for the campus, on which are situa- ted elghteen buildings of different sizes, while & new engineering bullding cost- ing fully completed and equfpped about $175,000 1s tn process of conmstruction. The College of Agriculture, with a stu- dent body of something over 500, equips young men and women for agricultural | duties, about 76 per cent of whom mo back to the farm or become instructors the United States, but from foreign | 8te ‘University has a medical collegs In agricultural lines. countries, Nebruska State University. Among the educational Institutions which have helped to bring name and fame to Lincoln, is, of course, the Uni- versity of Nebraska. Others not so large, but assisting greatly in the work, are the Nebraska Wesleyan university, the great Methodist school of the state; Cotner university, the college uf the Christian church; Union collegs, the educational institution of the great Advent'st church; the Lincoln Business coliege and the Ne- braska School of Business, two institu- tions which call from other states those who seek business education; the Ne- braska Miitary academy, the military wchool of the west; the University School M the L'ncoin Musical college, college and the In- are doing thelr share in making hat it is, in fact, an educational ehees ye of the see far enough people have just I 143 g of land er nearly gl i to eroct upon this rn university, one thut will fairly represent the state In tho galaxy of educational atates, and keep It a5 it is now, the best in the west. To do this modern buildings will be erected in which will be placed every concelvable devise which will add to the educa- tional systera of the state and increase its standing. Already the university is fully abreast with the advance of mod- i e education, but as the boys and giris!included In the campus which Incluees a | which Is consldered one of the best in the country. This college s situated in Omaba. That this institution of medicine stands high is Indicated by the fact that It has been placed In class A by the American Assoclation of Medical Col- leges. Graduates of this college carry the dliplomna of the Nebraska state univer- sity, which la sufficlent to give its holder Ipm-un wherever he may go. No mention of the Nebraska university | would ‘be complete without a few words ! regarding tts athletic department. That {brawn and muscie are given attention as well as “higher education’’ is evidenced by tho fact that for six successive yonrs the Nebraska “‘Cornhusker” foot ball team have been the undisputed ocham- plons of the Missouri valley conference. Wesleyan Univemity. Wesloyan university, considered to be | universities of Lincoln, is situated in the | little !ty of University Place, which has & population of between 4,000 and 5,000, lying about thres miles northeast of ookn. G i aty 3 1 I%‘cyu {5 the university of the Meth- odist chu of Nebraska, apd hes a m‘fi. student body. first 08 for the university foundas tion were started way back In 188, but it was not unttl three years later that it campus untll it had a student body. Just ten students '0CAtion and continued | composed the school at that time, while |now about 700 are taking the work of , the university. Bulldings upon the university campus are composed of the main bullding erected &t a cost of §110,000; the Wh'te Memorial, costing & llke sum ang other bulldings amounting n all to something over $360, 000, The university hall all the modern improvements needed and Is considered ‘one of the leading Institutions of that denomination In this section of the United Btates. About forty-five acres are The' The agricultural school, connected with the main agricultural college, is a secon- dary school, where boys and girls who have ‘completed the elghth grade may come and receive instruction fitting them for either farm work or for teaching in rural schools, It being estimated by Dean Burnett, head of the college, that about 7 per cent o back ms teachers in rural | schools, ! Thus the agricultural interests of the state are directly benefited by the Col- lego of Agriculture and the Agricultural #chool, the former receiving the graduates of high schools, fitting them for the more advanced lines of agricul- tural teaching and work, the latter tak- ing the boys and girls who have not the |advantage of high school training, and | fitting them for mctual farm work and |instruction In the country schools of the schools. Alllthe most Important of the surburban |*tate: l Nebraska Military Academy. Off to the west of Lincoln on a sightly hill stands the beautiful Nebraska Mli- tary academy. It was founded in 1808 and passed through its first real hard- ship when one month from the time of |Its opening it was burned to the ground. | But Colonel B. D, Hayward, its founder, |was not discouraged. Securing another | building in the city, he moved what had been saved from the fire to the new the work of buiiding up & new school, 1 Work was also begun on a magnificent new bullding on the old location, and as #oon as completed Colonel Hayward and his assistants and students moved in and began the work of bullding up Ne- braska's military school. That the work has been successfully carried on Is evi- denced by the t that after six years of offort fifty cadets finished the prescribed covrse of study last year and are fllling places succersfully along the lines they selected. ‘The achool is essentlally a home school of Nebraska continue to graduate from, fine athletic field, the total value of the ! with home surroundings. Colonel and the high schools of the state and flock to the university in increasing numbers, more room is mecessary, and to meot this the people will Invest hundreds of | umversity property running up about lufl.fl. The university starteq with an endowment fund of $100,00, of which ®on every lad attending the school leaves | Fifteenth and O for several years, when Andrew Carnegle subscribed about $%,- (it & better boy for having come under | It was purchased by W. M. Bryant and | Mrs. Hayward look after the boys as if \they were their own, and for that rea- ‘ LINCOLN, at C@n@r Wesleyan Universify the Influence of the superintendent and his good wife. T The form of athletics at the schooi catches the boy and he is enabled to bulld up a rugged constitution and is given plenty of chance to mix with his hard study plenty of play and exercise. Business Colleges. Lincoln is fortunate in having two business colleges which will compare with any In the country. Both are equipped with all the modern advantages and both are turning out hundreds of students every year capable of stepping intn every avenue of business and filling the places assigned them. Lincoln Business college 1is the oldest of its kind In the city. About two years ago it moved into its mew bulld- ing, which had been erected especlally to fill the needs of a college of this kind. The college first started out as a small school In 1584, and for years was situated In the Oliver Theater building Its busi- ness Increased so rapidly the last few years that It was necessary to have more room and better facilities for car- rying on the work, and so the present buliding was erected. Last year about 800 students attended this college and this year has been increased consid- erably, President E. C. Bigger feels that the acme of perfection has been Just as nearly reached it Is possible to @0 so In the new location and the success with which he is placing grad- uates of the Institution and their abil- him that no when the new bulld- Ing was erected at the corner of Four- teenth and P and the college moved from where it had been from infancy. All student graduates are found positions when they leave the school. The Nebraska School of Business dates Its creation back to 1904, when as Brown's Business college, it first sprang Into ex- Istence. It continued In fts location at A Wonderful Program of Free Attractions ' THE L0 4 e 'g l; In a Fascinating Instrumental and Vocal Offering Featuring The Dancing Sensation, PRINCES S OLAPELA, In Native Costume. IMPERIAL KIMIWA JAPANESE TROUPE from the Land of Mikado, AN AMAZING EXHIBITION OF ORIENTAL VERSATILITY, THE HINDOO TEMPLE, ey for Educational Activities Miss Beers, who christened it the Ne- braska School of Business, and three years ago moved Intd the Electric build- ing at Fourteenth and O. The bullding is very neatly fitted up with everything needed for the instruction of students along business lines, and the number of students being sent out indicate that as business Instructors President Bryant, Miss Beers and their able corps of assist. | ants are delivering the goods. President Bryant has many years' eXperience In the turning out of success- | ful business students. For eight years | he was superintendent of the School of | Commerce of North Dakota university, and when he came to Lincoln and became interested In the present college he brought with him one of the ablest In- structors of that college In stenography, | Miss Gertrude Beers, who came here in the capacity of vice president of the pres- ent school and took charge of the course in stenography. Graduates are found | places when they quit the school -.nd[ very few of them fall to make good. T. A. Blakeslee and F. R. Means have recently joined the executive forces of this | college, both having former experience in this lne. Where Music is Studled. As & musical center Lincoln ranks among the first in the west. Every edu- cational institution has Its musical de- partment, while a dozen musi: stores contribute the accessories needed to go with the education. Among the schools which are doing o much to keep Lincoln on the musical map are the University School of Musie, the Wesleyan Conservatory of Musio, Cotner Music school, College .View Con- servatory of Music, Lincoln Musical col- lege, Wheatly-LeBarron school, Molzer Violin school, Normal Musical school, and a doszen or more schools of a lesser nature. These have all had a tendency to spread a musical atmosphere about the “(Continued on Page Nine—Col. Two) NEB., STATE FAIR WEEK, SEPT. 5 to 11 A Congress of the World’s Entertainers An Octette of Fem inine Lovelinesss in A DAZZLING INSTRUMENTAL NOVELTY OF RAMSEY’S JUBILEE -SINGERS and DANCERS A Genuine Troupe of Southern Plantation Entertainment, 25 - ELECTRIC COURT ATTRACTIONS - 25 THE LARGEST BALL ROOM IN THE STATE, PROF, HAMPTON'S PRIZE ORCHESTRA. THE CABARET GARDEN. METROPOLITAN ARTISTS, NEBRASKA’S BEAUTIFUL RESORT ON THE LAKE STATE FAIR WEEK Monster Free Program of High-Class Circus Acts Spectacular Fireworks Display SALT WATER BATHING S0-ELECTRIC COURT ATTRACTIONS-50 A S N\ RN <A N SRR W AR AL PECULIAR CHARM. N SRR R PRINCESS SALIKA. ucus Ectertainment Till M dnight. Gorgeous Pyro.echnic lilu ICH 5