Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 13

] 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. | 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 have. 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, have been strengthened from time to time as new lines have developed and as modern ideas have come into\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 providec for and 'that nothing needed to give the students greater. opportunity shall be kept from them. the courses | It has| University been said. 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 engthily, as the case might be. This influence is extensive, as has 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 t is the people’s mandate and the THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916. UNIVERSITY of NEBRASHKA -Down-toun campuss. 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 .0 meet the teach- ers half way and to accept and digest what they offer, and to eagerly go ahead seeking more. Therein the institutton becomes a most acceptable supplement to edu- cation, the final process which though different than the earlier | mosphere of the town and of engineering, in law, in sclences, in|selves just as much en teaching He- arts, in agriculture, in medicine or in | brew, in other words, as they do in business the beginner may find the|giving an engineer a clear under- studies necessary to carry him to the [standing on running curves on rail- top. They are taught by competent,|road location, or in interpreting the sympathetic men and women. signs of crop movements so that he The equipment is good, the can obtain the best possible price for his wheat. campus is of the best. The oppor-| It is of just as much importance tunities, in a word, are as ideal as|that the girl who wants to dissect they can be found anywhere on dear|events leading up to the French revo- old Mother Earth. If the student|lution and to search for similar ten- cannot go ahead under the inspira- |dencies in our own people shall do so with all university aides at her el- bow as that the more at- the tion of all these advantages he is | have sought to keep that aim uppers most. The faculty of the present | time has it no less than did tge first faculty—the only difference is that the present instructoral staff has | more at its command with which to carry on its labor, Nebraska is one great farm, and 1 most of Nebraska's population, taere= fore, a great farmer. The institetion | thought of this early in its organizas 3, and it provided for teaching Nes | ! into the farmer's strong box. a science, according to expressed by one Nebraska' who visited the big farm| n at Lincoln one day, and! | ed that efforts made there | to produce good farmers in the stats |are just as comprehensive and as| methodical as in the making of a docs! 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 it grows, how to harvest it and store i and how to market it. He is tuutt. too, how to feed animals to ge thel 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 amon, his animals or in his grain, he taught how to supplement his chiel industry with the secondary farm in< dustries, such as raising poultry and vegetables and dairying and he is given practical demonstrations galose in the direct returns to be gathered| toil with the plow or the corn planter that never to himself he has said, “Some day I'll wear Palm Beaches and be chauffeur in my own touring car,” Of course notl 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- legislators therefore jn 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- 1zenship, 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 affajrs of th. state. 'ts in- terests have been more firmly joined to the best interests of the state than :m% other activity. he 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 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 1s sometimes deemed a long one in an educational way. It is in other ways onl continuation, a promo- tion as e nd as regular as from one grade to another in the schools. The schools of the state fit 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, for the learning 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 any institution in the land can find some- thing there to keep their attention and to make them the better for go- ing. gI"hosc 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- 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. faculty there pride their ability and their desire to give instruction successfully to both those who are caterin more who are hewing out their own future by preparing for it in a spirit of mod- ern commercialism. The faculty members apply them- 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. All of this is bosh. Lives there a man with hands so calloused from he members of the themselves on to the so-called “refined” instincts and those portunity to come for him to do so. The university is a democratic insti- It has been so from the day it first threw its doors open to the It will always have to be if it shall exist as It was organized with the aim of making the state bet- ter to live in—through giving the people higher education and equip- they need in all kinds of battles from those combats with the soil and the sun- shine and the showers to those in the tution, young people of this state, a state institution, ping them with the weapons highest intellectual realms. The faculties 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 B e from year to year in by those who farm according %0 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| grospective farm wife. She is taught] ow to feed hired men the mo strengthening foods and to cut out the food that leaves them helples (Continued on Page Ten—Cel. Five) 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 way to driw forth praise 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 any other state. The university influence has been at the root of most of 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 p 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 N\ 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. But more particularly have the “co-eds” made happy homes in the state To homestead cabin among ionesome 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 ittle better because of their contact with the university. 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 o S S is forced upon the student from an any profession or for any calling. In . b e The University of Nebraska | OPEN For the First i The Molzer Violin School Lincoln, Neb. 1213 O Street g Largest and best equipped violin school in the west. Most progressive methods used. Beginners placed un- der competent instructors. Semester Wednesday, September 13th, 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 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 Coflege and is designed to prepare for the higher service in teaching. | THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE—A four-year\ Lt A course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, de- college of the University, which grants the degree of | sjgned to provide vocational training for students Bachelor of Arts or of Science simultaneous with | preparing to enter business or allied lines of work. the granting of the Teachers College Diploma by the ¥ Teachers College. Thus, throughout his Sophomore, THE SCHOOL OF F INE ARTS_A fou_r-year I Junior and Senior years the student is registered in | cultural course, including the Fine Arts leading to | two colleges. the Bachelor’s degree. THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE—In- THE TEACHERS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ) ; —A high grade school of secondary rank wffering cludes general agricultural and general home eco- | o101 4id opportunities to a LIMITED rumer of the nomics groups. A four-year course leading to the : : A "¢ | most desirable students. Being the training school ?fflffifl%ifi?ifiie of Science. Also a two-year | of the Teachers College admission ca» be had only | on written application. THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING—A four- THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE—A sec- | year course leading to the degree of Bachelor of | ondary school training primarily for practical farm | Science in Engineering, Agricultural, Architectural, life. Civil, Electrical, Mechanical. Also a six-year Aca- : demic-Engineering course. THE SUMMER SESSION—An eight-week course primarily for teachers. THE COLLEGE OF LAW—A three-year course | UNIVERSITY EXTENSION—Courses offered leading to the degree of Bachelor of Laws. One year | ; : ac ! in many departments for which college credit is of academic work in addition to full entrance is re- | granted. Work in this department may be taken to Talented pupils placed in lyceum aud chautauqua work. Official musical coach for the Standard Lyceum and Chautauqua System. THE GRADUATE COLLEGE—A four-year course leading to Master of Arts and Doctor of Phil- osophy. Work may be pursued without reférence 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 LU UL AUGUST MOLZER Director : ’ E N b State Fair Visitors Are Cordia“y 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. ] f gpireld gordadmisiion to this lcolllege. Al;o al com- | meet preparatory requirements. ] Free Check Stand. : : : ined Academic-Law course leading to the degree e X { : s : Eree Smwnfry of Bachelor of Arts in four years, angd to the deg'ree ‘ The Nebraska Experiment Station, the Ne- § Free Edison Concerts. Free Telephones. Free Delivery to Depot. Information. of Bachelor of Laws in six years. Work is also of- braska School of Agl‘lfllltlll‘e at Curtis, and the Ex- fered leading to the degree of Doctor of Jurispru- ’ perimental Sub-Stations at North Platte, Valentine Realizing that among the thousands of State Fair Visitors many will dence. | and Scottsbluff are also in charge of the Board of /| want to suppiy their Fall and Winter needs, the supreme efforts of ’ Regents. I our organization have been, for many months, directed towards anti- THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE—A four-year On any point of information, address / 1 cipating their requirements. We have 17 different departments. course in Omaha leading to the degree of Doctor of | i j Medicine. A six-year course leading to the Bache- The Re istr r . Practically E . : lor’s degree and the degree of Doctor of Medicine, | g a o ractically Everything for the Home, Man, Woman and Child. the first two years being offered in Lincoln. | Station “A.” ! Lincoln, Neb. TR R NEETND