The University of Minnesota

Invites Participation In a Great Prog am r

Cyrus Northrop

The answer lies partly in the dramatic rise of Minnesota's institution to educational greatness, a rise so swift that customary revenues are scarcely sufficient to meet her most ordinary scholastic needs. The University in 1868 started with eighteen students of collegiate grade. In five decades her enrollment mounted by successive steps to 214, 972, 2665, 3685, and 7023 students. Last year the total attendance of the four terms was 10,425 young men and women, eager to receive training for a higher and more useful citizenship. This year the attendance will easily exceed 11,000~
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This leaping enrollment has been ever cared for as generously as possible by the state's funds. The University has no great endowment or wealth of her own to which she may turn, despite erroneous impressions of unprecedented resources. Her share of expendable income from ore land resources has slowly increased until last year it reached the maximum of $92,000. This toward a budget of nearly $5,000,000 is of course a mere pittance. But the $5,000,000 budget itself has been scarcely sufficient to meet the bare scholastic necessities and classroom needs of the growing institution. Meanwhile the state, through its legislature, has been obliged to neglect certain spiritual and character-making influences so essential to the full development of our young manhood and wOlnanhood. The campaign is undertaken to provide these unquestioned essentials.

The Two Needs are Fundamental

A first essential of a true educational institution is a place of general assembly. It is there that students sense their spiritual unity. It is there that

they catch the vision of unselfish, disinterested service which University and national leaders of thought may present.
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Every high school has an adequate auditorium of this kind. The U niversity of Minnesota has none.

The call to arms in 1918 showed American manhood npt lacking i_ n virility, but seriously lacking in physical development. Minnesota's program of comprehensive physical education is set toward the making of men. It is set towards Suggestion of How Minnesota's NorthrfJp Memorial supervised play, and exercise in ~~~_~~. Auditorium Will Appear . rugged types of games. Upon the foundation thus built will scholastic traininJ! securely rest and normally function. Yet the University's athletic field at present is the smallest of all the Conference colleges, her enrollment one of the largest. These are the two structures-an Auditorium capable of seating the student body and a Stadium capable of inspiring clean living, sturdy bodies, staying qualities, sportsmanship, and leadership-which the legislature can not provide without sacrificing scholastic needs. These are the structures which .the University calls upon her family and friends to supply.

Worthy Memorials
For twenty-seven years Cyrus Northrop was president of the University. Into the ceaseless stream of student life he poured his splendid energies, edu-

eating, softening, moulding, and inspiring. His great -heart found a place for every student. His great arms encompassed the entire student body and drew it to his bosom in genuine affection. So great was his power in public address to energize and inspire that this first need, the Auditorium, is to be a memorial to him. It will commemHarvard Built One of orate forever the spirit of Minnesota the First Great Stadiums and the qualities of manhood and womanhood for which Cyrus Northrop stood.

If the 3,200 young men of Minnesota who died in service could be asked what kind of a memorial they wanted, their answer undoubtedly would be "N one." But their comrades living, who fought beside them, would say: "Build something useful, something masculine, something that will last forever and embody the virile qualities of those who fell."
The Stadium, then, with adequate ground facilities, constitutes this second great need and will be sacred to those who would leave behind them the perpetual urge to unblemished, able, disciplined, and courageous manhood. These include not only our beloved dead, but the 123,000 of our Minnesota youth who answered the call, yet were spared.

The Campus Challenge

This project was presented to the students and faculties of the University last
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November. They, out of their slender resources, instantly responded with the magnificent pledge of $665,000 toward the bui1ding of these great memorials. Such loyalty and enthusiasm are an inspiring challenge to the alumni and friends of the University, in whom these first contributors confidently place their faith for the remainder. The time has now come not only to vindicate that faith, but adequately to immortalize Cyrus Northrop and our soldier heroes. In doing so we will but express, in tangible form, our belief in Minnesota's finest institution.

East or West, the Universities are Providing Athleiic Facilities of an Enduring Kind. This is University of California's Great S tadium

To Perpetuation of Those Manly Qualities Which Our Soldiers Exemplified, MinnesotaProposes this Mighty Memorial Stadium