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At Nebraska also Chancellor Andrews' headship was a period of marked growth. The student total advanced from 2,256 to 3,611. On the faculty, with some sort of professorial rank, were 56 persons in 1900, and 390 eight years later. The total appropriations for his last biennium ($1,330,067) were nearly three times that of his first ($475,000). Even so, the supply of funds did not keep pace with his sense of the University's needs; and when the regents once added a thousand dollars to his salary, he begged that, "so long as the University is compelled to the rigid economy it now exercises," he "continue to be paid at the present rate."
Among the main decisions of Chancellor Andrews' administration were, the establishment of the Medical College, under Dean Ward; of the Teachers' College, under Dean Fordyce; the construction of the physics building, museum, administration building, the Temple, and many others; and the bringing into our faculty of such men as Professors E. A. Ross, G. E. Howard, M. M. Fogg, Roscoe Pound, H. H. Waite, H. K. Wolfe, A. S. Johnson, Hutton Webster, and H. B. Alexander.
The splendid personality of Dr. Andrews made itself widely felt through constant lecturing and public activity, as well as through steady literary production. For several years he maintained also a course in practical ethics to which the students came in throngs. Here he displayed that remarkable skill in exposition and virility in discussion, that wonderful blending of high ideals, horse sense, humor, and racy anecdote, which had earlier established his eminence as a teacher.
Compelled by ill health to lay down the chancellorship, December 31, 1908, Dr. Andrews, accompanied by Mrs. Andrews, spent some years abroad. They even went around the world in 1909-10. Later they retired to Interlachen, Florida, where his death occurred October 30, 1917. He is buried on the campus of Denison University.
A selection from the writings of Dr. Andrews, omitting many sermons and articles and minor works, yields the
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