Starting out in 1870 by giving a few courses in the classics and the liberal arts the University of Nebraska has widened its usefulness to the people of this state until today it is teaching them all the sciences and all the professions. Furthermore as the most cursory inspection of its fee schedule will show the University is preparing Nebraska men and women for all the walks in life at so low a cost to the individual student that cheap ness is an established argument in favor of higher education by the state. What a temendously large important and efficient a public institution the University of Nebraska really is will be apparent to anyone who has the time to spend a half a day or so on the University Campus and the State Farm. On the campus in Lincoln are seventeen large and imposing buildings most of them in good repair clustered closely together on a plot of ground four blocks in area which at this time of the year is a veritable labyrinth of mottled flower beds shrubs lawns and trees. At the State Farm are ten equally commodious and serviceable structures situated on three hundren and twenty acres of ground that with extensive cultivation is rapidly becoming the garden spot of the state. In these buildings are class-rooms libraries laboratories and museum everything that is needed to educate four thousand students a year. To meet the University's urgent

demand for more room to accommodate its increasing number of students the Legislature has authorizes a three-quarter mill levy for six years which had provided in all $2,000,000 for University improvement and which is now available for the University's use. In view of what the University of Nebraska now is, as seen by the spectator who spends only a few hours within its gates the spectacle of how great an institution it will be when $2,000,000 have been spent in enlarging its equipment and increasing its usefulness for the people of the state almost stifles the imagination. Internally the University gives every evidence of progress. It is doing better work every year. It is constantly raising its educational standards and the fact that it is doing so is recognized by competing Universities of standing and repute. Requirements for sdmission into the University are higher than ever before requirements for graduation still higher. Numbered among its faculty are men of recognized ability as teachers and not a few who have a national reputation as authorities in their several lines such eminent scholars and men of science as Dean L A. Sherman the late Dean Charles E. Bessey and Dean O. V. P. Stout and such noted jurists as Dean E. G. Hastings of the College of Law and Dr. Edwin Maxey a well-known authority on inter national law. The attention of the technical world was recently

attracted to the University of Nebraska by the addition to its equipment of one of the largest and most up-to-date engineering laboratories in the West. The latest improvement is a beautiful and spacious building to be occupied exclusively by the political science and law departments. The university of Nebraska not only furnishes instruction to those who come to its doors seeking it but it also extends the advantages of higher education to those who cannot afford the time and expense of years in college. Through correspondence study public lectures high-school debates and the publication of pamphlets devoted to general information and welfare the University prepares many persons at home for lives of greater usefulness. One hundred students are now doing regular University work and recieving regular University credit by employing thier spare hours at home under the direction of the University of Nebraska Extension Department. The University also turns out a vast amount of knowledge for general consumption by the people of the state in the form of publications. Besides the annual calendar and other periodic Bulletins there are eleven University papers devoted to all kinds of scientific literary and educational interests. The various student publications and the published reports of the scientific branches of the University especially those of engineering and agriculture constitute no small part of the great educational service the University is rendering the state.

The University believes that it is able to furnish higher education to the people to the people of the state at the lowest possible cost. It deplores the loss of students to outside schools far more even than local business and local business interests deplore the loss of local trade to wholesale and mail order establishments. Nebraska University is a Nebraska institution for Nebraska people and makes higher education especially attractive to the Nebraska student.