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present courses offer opportunities for patrons of the College to 

 arrange for almost any kind of work, or combination of subjects, 

 properly coming within the scope of this institution. The chief 

 development of the future will be in the graduate instruction. This 

 can not be strongly emphasized until the teaching force is sufficient 

 in numbers so that men and women are not over-burdened with 

 the duties of undergraduate teaching. Graduate work can not be 

 profitably directed unless those in charge of it have some time to 

 devote to it. The hours of teaching now required of the members 

 of the Faculty are far beyond those in most institutions, and really 

 tax the energies of teachers to the limit. Not only the opportunity 

 for graduate work, but the highest quality of performance in under- 

 graduate teaching, demands that the number of classes handled by 

 each individual be small enough so that the teacher can give aoe- 

 quate preparation for each class, and conduct it with energy and 

 enthusiasm. 



CHANGES IN COLLEGE LIFE 



(1879-1913) 



The students of to-day can scarcely realize the change in social 

 conditions in Manhattan and the College that a third of a century 

 has brought about. While there were scattered houses in various 

 places over the town site, the village in 1879 may be said to have 

 practically extended no further west than Eighth street and troni 

 Laramie street to the Union Pacific railway. The College buildings 

 were limited to the stone barn, which was demolished in the fall 

 of 1913; the building now used for farm machinery, then called 

 the old barn; the old horticulture building; the central part of the 

 east wing of the shops; the chemistry building now used as the 

 chemistry annex; and the north wing of Anderson Hall. President 

 Fairchild lived on the campus in the house later occupied by the 

 custodian of buildings. With the exception of the old cottonwoous 

 and the hackberry on the slope southeast of Anderson Hall, there 

 were no trees of any size on the campus, though many had been 

 planted. The cedar trees between Denison Hall and Anderson Hall 

 were there, also the wreck of an old residence. Lovers' Lane was 

 bordered by the same maple trees that are still there, and got its 

 name at that time. There was actually a lane there then, three or 

 four rods wide, fenced on both sides, and running across the farm 

 east and west. It was a public road. This was closed in IP 80, 

 and the fences removed. The old stone walk there, now mostly 

 covered by earth which has washed in, was the only one giving 

 access to the College grounds. The roads and walks now used were 

 then in corn fields and pastures, hence every one walked through 

 Lovers' Lane. This much for the general setting of the scene. 



The only student organizations then were the Webster aud 



