9*m%m of wreois usmar J \°u M Bulletin Vol. ||0Vo^9 1918 May, 1912 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE Published Bi-Monthly by the University of North Dakota Entered February 4, 1909, at University, North Dakota, as Second-Class Matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1904 A PAMPHLET DESCRIPTIVE OE THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA AND THE SCHOOL OF MINES A GLIMPSE THRU THE TREES UNIVERSITY, NORTH DAKOTA Printed for the University NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE I CONTENTS THE UNIVERSITY History, Organization and Faculties Location Buildings and Equipment Athletics ADMINISTRATION Admission Colleges and Curriculum The Summer Session The Extension Division Special Research Work ALLIED INTERESTS THE CARE OF STUDENTS MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES THE COST THE PURPOSE THE ENGLISH COULEE THE UNIVERSITY THE GRAND FORKS OF THE RED AND RED LAKE RIVERS of North Dakota, and on the same date an act was approved providing for the issuance of territorial bonds to the amount of Thirty Thousand Dollars and for the construction of the present Merrifield Hall. The equipment and mainte- nance of the new institution for the first two years was pro- vided for by an appropriation approved March 7, 1883. HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION AND FACULTIES T HE University of North Dakota was established under the provisions of an act passed by the Terri- torial Legislature February 16, 1883. By this law it was to be a co-educational institution, styled the State University UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 6 ] The University was opened to students on September 8, 1884. The faculty consisted of Dr. William M. Blackburn, president and professor of metaphysics, Henry Montgomery, vice-president and professor of natural sciences, Webster Merrifield, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, and Mrs. E. H. Scott, preceptress and instructor in mathematics and English. The University is non-sectarian in its government, ad- ministration and instruction. A board of five trustees, ap- pointed by the governor for four years are the custodians of its affairs. In the twenty-nine years of its history its academic and professional graduates have numbered eight hundred and twenty-three. The enrollment for the present year is nine hundred and ninety-two, of whom five hundred and twenty-six are found in the different degree-giving colleges. There are maintained as parts of the University the colleges of Liberal Arts, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine, the Public Health Laboratory with sub-stations at Bismarck and Minot, the Biological Station at Devils Lake, the Mining Re- search Station at He- bron, and a station of the United States Weather Bureau at the University. THE- FEDERAL BUILDING— Grand Forks The faculties con- sist of twenty-three professors, fourteen assistant professors, twenty-seven instruc- tors, nine assistants, LLU STRATED BULLETIN LOCATION Grand Forks, the site of the University, was first settled in 1870. It is on the main line of the Great Northern Railway and the Winnipeg line of the Northern Pacific Railway, easily accessible from the different parts of the State and from the western and northwestern parts of Min- nesota. It is a town of fourteen thousand inhabitants, with a carefully graded and ordered public school system, a free public library and twenty-one churches. There are in the city two daily papers and several weeklies, a number of [ 7 and thirteen lecturers, a total of eighty-six, while the investment in campus, buildings and equipment amounts to $800,000. THE RED RIVER OF THE NORTH UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 8 ] manufacturing establishments, and five national and state banks. The climatic conditions are healthful ; there is a good water supply, a complete sewage system, and an ex- cellent street-lighting plant. There is a delightful system of city parks, affording recreation in both summer and winter, in walks, drives, boating, canoeing, skating and skiing. BUILDINGS The University buildings are thirteen in num- ber, with three additional Wes- ley College build- ings on the oppo- site side of Uni- versity Avenue. About sixty acres of the one hundred and twenty acres owned by the University are devoted to campus purposes. A central heating and lighting plant supplies steam heat and electric light to all of the buildings, which are also connected with the water and sewage systems of the city. The oldest of the University buildings is Merrifield Hall. It contains the offices of the President, Secretary, Registrar, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, and the Stenographic Bureau, besides the offices and class rooms of the departments of Latin, English, German, French, Scandi- ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 9 navian, Political Science, History and Sociology. In this building also is “Old 201,” so often used by the students for class meetings, religious association gatherings, and small lecture groups. REEVES AVENUE— Grand Forks Davis Hall, Macnie Hall and Budge Hall are the residence halls for students, the first two for women, and the last for men. These accommodations are supplemented by the residence halls of Wesley College, Sayre Hall for men and Larimore Hall for women. There is provision in the five buildings for 138 men and 140 women. The buildings are heated with steam and lighted by electricity from the University power house. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA IO ] The Commons building was completed in the fall of 1911. It is a unique building, full of interest, and one of the few devot- ed to such pur- poses i n the United States. The architect- ure is collegi- ate gothic and represents a new type of buildingadopt- ed by the Uni- versity trustees. On the lower PUBLIC LIBRARY— Grand Forks floor are the cafeteria, coat rooms and guest rooms. On the second floor is the great dining-room, 120x40, a large kitchen, office and committee rooms. The equipment is modern in every respect and the building has proved a notable addi- tion to the living fa- cilities for students. Four of the scien- tific departments find their home in Science Hall, a building of four stories erected in 1910. Here are housed the departments of geology, physics, biol- ogy, the Public Health Laboratory and the School of Medicine. CLIFFORD BUILDING— Home of the Law School ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ I I Woodworth Hall, opposite Science Hall, shelters the School of Education and the Model High School with its associated work. The building is a new one, of the collegi- ate gothic type, four stories high, and contains a well ap- pointed auditorium, with a seating capacity of over three r MERRIF1ELD HALL hundred, gymnasium and class rooms. There have been placed in the various halls and rooms of this building a number of fine pictures. In the auditorium there is also to be found an interesting replica of Lucca del Robia’s frieze of “Singing Boys.” The two Engineering Colleges are housed in the Mechanic Arts building, erected in 1902, and in the School of Mines building, erected in 1908. The Me- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 12 ] chanical Engineering Shops were erected in 1899. In these buildings adequate equipment is found for the instruc- tion in engi- neering. Es- pecially well equipped is the work of min- ing and me- chanical engi- neering. LARIMORE AND CORWIN HALL— Women's Residence Hall Wesley College Conservatory of Music At the end of the plaza, dividing the campus into two great halves, is the Library, erected in 1908 through the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. It is equipped with new furniture throughout and two stories of steel construction book stacks. In 1907 the Gym- nasium was built for the joint purposes of work in physical train- ing and an assembly hall. The main floor is 110x55 and affords abundant opportunities for gymnastics and in- door athletic work. In this room are held SAYRE HALL-Men s Residence Hall ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN DAVIS HALL Women’s Residence Hall BUDGE HALL Men’s Residence Hall MACNIE HALL Women’s Residence Hall UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 14 ] also the weekly Convocations, which are a very interesting feature of the University life. UNIVERSITY COMMONS The President's House, completed in 1903, is on University Avenue near one of the main entrances to the campus. The Power House was erected in I 9°9 and is equipped with four boilers of 15° horse power each. It SCIENCE HALL THE GREAT DINING ROOM— Uuiversity Commons 1 6 ] UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA has in addition the modern apparatus for stoking fires and for induced draft. The building is 100x40 feet and contains a machine shop. ATHLETICS Former students of the University were accustomed to the small athletic field on the northwest side of the Campus- WOODWORTH HALL This, however, has been replaced by a very much larger field provided for by a recent purchase 'of the trustees and established on the east side of the campus. This field has a quarter-mile cinder track, two football gridirons and two baseball diamonds. There are also conveniently located tennis courts, affording opportunity to those who wish to engage in that game. Each year in the spring the State High School Athletic ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 17 Meet is held at the University and many interesting records are made as the result of the competition of one hundred or more high school students. AUDITORIUM— Woodworth Hall ADMINISTRATION The requirements for admission to the various colleges of the University are those established by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and subjects representing an aggregate of fifteen units must be offered by the applicant. Of these, nine are prescribed, and six elective, which may be selected from a list set forth in the statement of admission requirements in the general university catalogue. When students are admitted on diplomas or certificates from first-class high schools, the subjects which •UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 18 ] are presented must conform to the prescribed and elective groups in the requirements for admission. SCHOOL OF MINES The School of Medicine requires two years of a prem e d i c al course for ad- mission to the freshman year and the School of Education makes a simi- 1 a r require- SECTION OF MINING ENGINEERING LABORATORY ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 19 ment of students who are to take advanced professional work. The other colleges admit to the freshman class all THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY who meet the requirements referred to above. The curric- ulum for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, to put it briefly, consists of sixty hours of prescribed work, forty-eight hours se- lected from elective groups, and seventeen hours of free electives determined by the stu- dent. In order to grad- uate a student must maintain an average record of C. Provi- sion is made for elec- tions in the College of Liberal Arts by stu- DELIVERY DESK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NORTH HAL I HE UNIVERSITY— October 2, 1883 THE CAMPUS 22 ] UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA dents in the Law School and in the Engineering Colleges. The courses of study offered in the College of Liberal Arts number more than two hundred, and include instruction in music and the fine arts and many other subjects besides those of the regular curriculum, so that the student who is seeking a liberal education will have no difficulty in THE PRESIDENT’S HOME finding all he requires. The professional schools give ade- quate and thorough instruction in the work in mining engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, civil engineering, education, law and medicine. The tuition in these schools is ordinarily twenty-five dollars a year, with the exception that for the last two years in the medical school the tuition is fifty dollars and for the law school is the same amount. Engineering students after the first year pay thirty-five dollars annually. The academic year is divided into two semesters of equal length, which are separated by the summer vacation of ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 2 3 thirteen weeks. There are two recesses of ten days each, one at Christmas and the other at Easter. Catalogues containing full and detailed information concerning admission require- ments, examinations, degrees, courses of study, expenses, prizes, scholarships, rules and regulations, are sent upon application to the registrar. THE ATHLETIC FIELD THE SUMMER SESSION The Summer Session, which is held immediately following the University year, provides opportunity for the teachers of the State to secure advanced instruction in the subjects in which they are interested. THE EXTENSION DIVISION In the Extension Division the University utilizes a great opportunity to bring the people of the commonwealth in touch with its educational and professional resources through UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA lecture courses, correspondence study, institutes, and the loan of material in the form of books, periodicals, and the like. RESEARCH WORK In the various laboratories are being carried on numerous investigations that are of special interest to the people of the State. This is particularly true of the work done by the Public Health Laboratory and the School of Mines. Investigations are also being made in connection with the use of gas and the use of different kinds and forms of power ; various chemical and physical problems, and matters relating to economic and social welfare. In the experiment stations at Devils Lake and Hebron practical problems are being worked out that are of special interest and value to the commonwealth. ALLIED INTERESTS The city of Grand Forks offers unusual musical advan- tages. Wesley College Conservatory, with an efficient corps A CORNER OF THE READING ROOM — Library of instructors, is situ- ated just opposite the University campus, and the presence of several other conservatories and most excellent pri- vate teachers makes it possible for students desiring to do so to pursue advanced mus- ical study in connec- tion with their Uni- versity work. ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN |_ 2 5 The University itself offers courses in vocal music de- signed especially for those wishing to teach music in the public schools, but open to all. Under the direction of an instructor the students are trained in both vocal and instru- mental music in the musical organizations of the University. Students have the opportunity of joining the Grand Forks Oratorio Society, which each year studies two or more great oratorios and gives a musical festival every spring. This, with the many choice artists’ recitals given under the auspices of the various musical organizations and schools of the city, affords opportunity for hearing the best musicians now before the public. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES While the University of North Dakota is a state institu- tion, and therefore does not engage in religious instruction in the denominational sense of the term, nevertheless the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and University Catholic Associ- ation maintain vigor- o u s organizations, while Wesley College conducts a vesper ser- vice each Sunday even- ing of the year. The churches of the city open their doors to the students of the Univer- sity and make special provision for them. The University Con- vocations on Saturday THE GYMNASIUM UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 26 ] ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CATHOLIC CHURCH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA mornings are the occasions each week of inspiring presenta- tions of the value of the higher life and the influence of noble ideals. The atmos- phere of the University of North Dako- ta is essential- ly democratic. The boy who works for his board loses no prestige, but holds his place among his fel- lows on merit. experimental engineering laboratory It has been remarked by those who know, that the University of North Dakota is an unusual place in this respect, while the tone of the student life is high and earnest. The deans of colleges, the dean of women, and the Committee on Stu- dents’ Work, consist- ing of seven members of the faculty, are en- gaged in careful super- vision of the class work of students. TESTING A CONCRETE BEAM ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 29 THE CARE OF STUDENTS All students entering the University for the first time are given faculty advisors and are examined by the directors of MECHANICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING physical training; a registered nurse, a woman of experience, maintains an office hour daily during the academic year, so that students may consult her if they desire. In each resi- dence hall there is an infirmary, provided with proper hos- pital facilities. The supervision over the women of the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 30 ] UNIVERSITY EXTENSION AND COOPERATION ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN University is thorough but not arbitrary. There are also maintained separate club rooms for both men and women, where books, papers and magazines may be enjoyed amid pleasant surroundings. THE COST In an article in the American Educational Review of December, 1910, it was stated that it cost a man at least $1,000 a year on the average to go through Yale Univer- sity, although a few students live on amounts very much less than this. Letters from other in- stitutions indi- cate that the cost of pursu- COMMENCEMENT DAY ing a course in them runs from $400 to $1,000. These figures do not include railroad fare or clothing. At the University of North Dakota a student may attend through thirty-five weeks of instruction, on a generous basis, for $350, while the student who spends more than $500 is extravagant, a form of money spending that the University discourages. The general expenses of attendance at the University for a year may be reduced materially below this amount. The general expenses are as follows: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA Matriculation and fees - - - $ 25.00 Room rent, 35 weeks - - - - - 43-75 Board, 35 weeks - I I 4.00 Books and materials - 15.00 A total of - - - $197-75 To this should be added miscellaneous items of one kind and another, which may amount to from $50 to $100 addi- tional. The opportunities for earning money at the University, while not exceptional, are sufficient to materially assist the THE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 33 early applicant in meeting the expenses of his education. In the University Commons thirty-five men are employed during LIGNITE BRIQUETS- School of Mines the year as waiters. Occasional work can be secured about the campus and in the administrative offices, while oppor- BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT DEVILS LAKE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 34 ] ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN [ 35 tunities to work for room and board are to be found in the city near at hand. THE PURPOSE OF AN EDUCATION The purpose of an education is to give the individual larger efficiency and greater possibilities of real service. The OPEN AIR THEATRE colleges have been established because experience has proven that the things that have contributed in the past to this end can be brought to the attention of the student most easily and effectively through college instruction. The demands for trained intelligence are greater today than ever before, while the problems of citizenship, industry and morals require larger outlook and a broader point of view. Not every young man or young woman is adapted to college life or college training, but the opportunity to secure an educa- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA 36 ] tion should not be passed by lightly. To that end the facts presented in this little pamphlet have been brought together. FURTHER INFORMATION Requests for information should be addressed to the Reg- istrar, University, North Dakota, who will be glad to for- ward literature and answer all questions. FIELD OF WHEAT 6RAND FORKS TIMES-HERALP