Caption: Commencement - 1922
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T H E 1'REM KVA'I ION OI UNITY With . lequate endowment, the problem of numbers 1 is a problem of inization but at this p >int one principle must never be offended if w< hope to reach the highest development, and that principle is unity. When the * amount o\\ unpus territory which students can cover by walking has been fully occupied by buildings—not as a public park but as a working plant—then perforce a new unit must be established. Hut it need not be far away onh so far as may be necessary to house and quarter a new group using largely the same equipment and subject to the same general and departmental administration. The mistake which must not be made, as the speaker sees the problem, is that any college or interest should b e • split off and set aside when the first swarm is ready to [ leave the hive; but the thing set off as a new unit should be a cross-section of all the University interests. It might be confined to freshmen, perhaps, or to sophomores, but let this group represent all the professions, the ideals and the aspirations that they as future citizens will encounter in their relationships. So shall the essential integrity and the unity of the institution be preserved and so shall the cooperative and mutual understanding of the future citizens of the state be not only foreshadowed but insured. * * OBJECTIONS TO BRANCH INSTITUTIONS One of the seductive solutions for large numbers is the device of branch institutions where certain subjects, such a agriculture, for example, might be taught for a year or two, and where students might be served nearer home. 1 his s no solution for the problem of numbers. 7 The student naturally prefers to invest his time and money to the best advantage, and he will not go to branch Kin Mtutions unless excluded by main strength from the • univei ity, which his father helps to support. \gain, tin peopl f the locality in which the- branch is situated will lOt b'- itisfied that it should remain a junior colli , i i
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