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of students. Their multifarious types and activities are surveyed to best advantage in the pages of the students' annual, The Cornhusker. The varied interests and the increasing membership of student organizations at the University parallel the expansion of the institution as a whole.
Louise Pound.
THE ALUMNI
In 1873 two men went forth from University Hall, the first two graduates of the University of Nebraska. Both men are living and active today—the one, J. S. Dales, as secretary of the board of regents and of the University senate, is still devoting his services to his Alma Mater; the other, Judge William H. Snell, is a practicing attorney at Tacoma, Washington. From two, the roster of alumni has grown into the thousands, until today they are scattered in all parts of the world and all lines of activities.
Some seven thousand men and women are graduates, and many more as non-graduates, are doing their bit in the world's work the better for their training at the University. "By their fruits ye shall know them." The strongest argument that can be adduced in support of a state loyal and generous to its university is the fact that the leaders among its citizenship, whether it he on the farm or in the city, very often are University men and women, serving in turn the state that has so well served them.
It is impossible in a short article to pay individual tribute to all the men and women who have reflected honor on their Alma Mater. Parenthetically, and speaking of men and women, it ought to be noted that the first woman graduate, Alice May Frost, '76, married one of her classmates, George Elliot Howard, thereby, as it were ab initio, setting such example as many another has followed. In truth, it is no negligible feature of coeducation, and hence of the interest of the alumni life of a coeducational institution,
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