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The UNIVERSITY of KANSAS
Head of the Educational System of the State.
The University of Kansas may properly be regarded as the upper grade of the splendid system of free education offered by the State of Kansas to all its children. Without examinations, other than those with which they finish their tour years' preparatory work, graduates of 150 Kansas high schools and academies step into the Freshman class. The relation between the University and the high schools has come to be regarded as organic, and while it necessitates mutual toleration and concessions, nevertheless, the University is enabled to maintain reasonably high standards and finds the friends of the Kansas high schools proud to assist in keeping the standard of the entire system well up toward the summit of possibility.
THE UNIVERSITY'S HIGH RANK
Quietly and unostentationously has the University grown, until forty years after its founding its greatness and far-reaching power are realized. Often hampered by inadequate legislative appropriations, yet fortunate in the men chosen to guide its destiny, the University of Kansas has made constant and consistent progress and now ranks among the best educational institutions of the United States. William Henry Jones, M. P., a member of the Mosely Commission of English educators who have been touring America for the purpose of investigating her educational institutions, places the University of Kansas in the list of the first ten universities of importance in this country. The list in order is as follows: Harvard, Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas and Tennessee. When it is remembered that this noted educator places Kansas above such proud institutions as Yale, Princeton and Columbia, ranking it ninth of all Universities in America, the citizens of Kansas can well be proud of the institution they have built. To quote from Mr. Jones' report relative to western universities in general: "It is democracy—where merit alone counts. Its standing and scholarship is of the highest. Its spirit and purpose are as broad and inclusive as the universe. Unlike the older colleges of the East, it is not circumscribed and hampered by a conservative, classical curriculum, nor is it intimidated by its beneficiors as are some of the colleges founded by the predatory rich. It is the wholesome product of a commonwealth of three million people, sane, democratic, industrial and progressive, with ideals and unafraid of ideas. It responds to every need of humanity. It knits together the professions and labor. It makes the fine arts and the anvil one." Other visitors to the University, from Kansas as well as from the states both East and West, are usually surprised at the extent of the educational plant, no less than at the beauty and suitability of its surroundings. Undoubt,ully the location upon Mount
Oread cannot be surpassed among the college campuses of the world for its scenic beauty and for its moral and physical wholesomeness. The gentle slope of the hill insures a moderate amount of exercise for every student, while the free air and magnificent view of thirty miles in nearly all directions are a daily inspiration in themselves.
THE UNIVERSITY PLANT
Here by the munificence of the state and the benefactions of friends of education are located eleven buildings devoted to the purposes of the institution. Another building will be erected for the School of Law during the next fiscal year, $50,000 having been appropriated for the purpose. The present grounds, buildings and equipment of the University are valved at $1,300,- 000, making it the largest and best equipped institution of its grade in the entire Southwest. Its income is equivalent to five per cent on an endowment of $4,000,000.
THE STUDENT BODY
Its students are all of collegiate (not preparatory) grade. Its enrolment will reach 1400 during the present year. Fifty per cent of the students pay their own way. Seventy-five per cent pay either the whole or a substantial part of their expenses. It is safe to say that a similar number of young people could not be found associated anywhere else in the state, or out, of higher average character and better spirit. Visitors from other colleges, and our own students who attend other colleges, remark constantly on the wholesome tone of student life at the University of Kansas. Lawrence is a town without an open saloon or even a tolerated joint. It is conceded to be morally the cleanest town of its size in the state. Democracy and good fellowship is the rule among the students, and the relations between instructors and students are unusually free and wholesome.
THE FACULTY
All material equipment, however, is secondary to the character of the instructional body. The teaching force of the University of Kansas numbers 104. It includes a considerable number of scholars who are known as equals of the best in the United States, and several whose reputations are national. As compared with the faculty of an older eastern institution, a notable point is the low average age of the body. There are no pensioners and men who have outlived their usefulness. Members of the faculty have been selected primarily as teachers, but at the same time, with an eye to their promise as scholars and investigators. They are characterized, as real scholars are everywhere, by absence of pretence and a desire to be thoroughly useful to the students and the state. They teach more hours a week and receive less pay for the work than the instructors of any institution of similar grade in the country.
SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF
INSTRUCTION
In the variety of technical and general courses in the various schools and departments of the university, the people of Kansas have at their disposal for the benefit of their children all that can be found in any of the other schools of the country beyond the Mississippi taken together. So far as the instruction of the University of Kansas pretends to reach it is not inferior to the best in the United States.
Graduates of other Western schools will find at the University of Kansas a school for graduates offering work in over 200 different post graduate courses, in twenty-six departments, under a faculty of thirty-three scholars and investigators.
The School of Arts (The College) has a teaching force of sixty-five-a greater number than the entire faculty of any other college in Kansas. It offers over three hundred courses including many courses in business in its higher relations in Journalism, Banking, Insurance, Mining, Manufacturing and Commerce. There are thirty-three departments.
der a faculty of twenty-nine members, offers one hundred courses in civil, electrical, mechanical, mining and chemical engineering. The Fowler shops contain $40,000 worth of apparatus and machinery. The Physics building contains $30,000 worth of apparatus for work in electrical engineering and Physics. The demand for graduates of this school is larger than the supply.
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In the School of Law twenty-four different subjects are covered in a three years' course under ten instructors. It is the consensus of experience that modern law training to be effective must be given by teachers who devote their entire time to the subject.
In the School of Fine Arts under a teaching force of eighteen members, are offered fifty-six courses in Piano, Organ, Violin, Voice, Drawing, Painting and Elocution. This school has the largest and best facilities in the Southwest, including a $5,000 pipe organ.
Courses of two, three and four years are offered in the school of Pharmacy under a faculty of twenty-one members. The laboratories in Pharmacy and Chemistry are the largest and most complete in the Southwest.
A medical building newly fitted and laboratories enlarged is the home of the School of Medicine with a faculty of fourteen members. This school offers instruction in the first two years of a regular medical course.
The University now maintains a regular summer session. Sixty-five courses were offered by thirty-five instructors last summer. The success of the first session was so marked that the second session will be conducted on a much larger and more elaborate scale. The University expects to offer work during the spring term beginning about April 1, especially for teachers. This will give many persons who cannot spend the winter in college work the opportunity of beginning or completing work for a degree by taking the spring and summer work. The spring work will be so connected with the work of the summer session, as to give continuity to it all, and will greatly increase the number of credits teachers may receive without sacrificing their school work.
THE LIBRARY
The University Library, the common laboratory of the students and instructors of all departments contains 42,000 volumes and receives 580 periodicals and proceedings of learned societies annually. Seven thousand dollars are spent annually for new books. This furnishes a working college library without a peer in the state. The library is open the year around.
THE LABORATORIES
The laboratories of the various departments of physical and biological science are supplied with extensive equipment of modern apparatus, the total value approaching $125,000. It is not the custom of the University to announce the work of a department until it is decently prepared to accommodate students and it may go without further saying that every department has its well-provided laboratory. Notably complete is the equipment in electrical and mechanical engineering, and in chemistry. THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY
At present the buildings most needed are a gymnasium, which could also be used as an auditorium at commencement and other times, and a building for the School of Engineering, Kansas whose granaries can feed the world, whose banks are filled with the wealth of the people, can and will pursue a more liberal policy in dealing with her State University. In less than ten years two thousand students will crowd the halls of this University, and the faculty and equipment must be prepared for this increase. With over 2,000 graduates and 16,000 former students scattered throughout the state and elsewhere, the future of the University is safe. They are co-operating with the Regents and the Chancellor in plans for developing the University in lines hitherto closed, in strengthening the departments already established, in securing such an equipment that all the talent of the faculty can be used to its best advantage, and in a determination to serve the state by making her University the equal if not the peer of the greatest state Universities. The people of Kansas are coming to the belief that the University is their own institution, wortily crowning their educational system, and every loyal Kansan should bend his strongest energies until no township in this great commonwealth shall be so remote as to tail to receive some degree of inspiration to right thinking and right living from the far-reaching and ever-elevating influence of the University of Kansas.
THE NEW MUSEUM BUILDING.