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University Hall, the original home of the University, of late years held together, to ensure its safety from falling, by steel uprights, is still the home of the Arts College, the oldest of the colleges. Its recitation rooms and offices, which house classes in history, language literature, and rhetoric look time-stained and battered, in comparison with the new and attractive quarters of the natural sciences, the technical sciences, the social sciences, and the vocational and agricultural schools. But those who teach in the old building are glad to do so; indeed they take pride in doing so. They feel a deep love for it, for University Hall is the historic building, among those on the campus, and the classes reciting in it are those first desired by the founders of the institution. The University of Nebraska reflects, in the stages of its development, the shifting conceptions of the province of a state university that characterize the decades since its foundation. The primary purpose of the founders of the University was to provide a liberal or cultural education for the youth of the state, in order to make of them—as it has made of them—more rounded and valuable citizens. With the growth of the institution in scholarship, and the development of its graduate school, came a consciousness of the historic mission of a university, namely to preserve and if possible to add to the learning of the world, that asset of civilization. This may be called the function of the university proper, as distinguished from the secondary school and from the college. Last to be reflected in its development is the present-day conception of a state university as an institution of public usefulness, where training may be had in all lines, cultural, aesthetic, scientific, vocational, commercial, which the people of the state, who are its supporters, may desire. LOUISE POUND.
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