The University 'l'lwre art' now perhaps no students in the institution who attended the University of former days when all that the small faculty had to ofTer was a large campus, a fraction of a building and an abundance of promises. llut so splendidly have promises been fulfilled and hopes realized that we arc encourag-ed to anticipate still g-reater achievements in the futnrc. ( lnr growth has been typical of the \\'est- the young- \\'est- when.: activity and carnestness and optimism arc the charactcristics of all succes!'.ful enterprises. •\nd because the \\'est is young our prugre>'s h:b po~sibly not bcen s~ mmetrical but it has neYertheless not l' een incon-.,!stent. If certain departments o f the college have seemed to be entirely neglected while other departments ha\'e received a large measure of attention the situation j, not at all 'abnormal. It is the habit of all growing things to clcn·lop some part!'. more rapidly than others. \\'e shall be satisfied if some day when we can boast more than twelve ycars of life for her. our clear Alma \latcr ~hall he recognized as a mature Vnin·r~ity. In that day when our habits of thought ... hall han• cl:angcd with the actual enlarging of the• collcgc perhaps we shall begin to develop more of the• ~taidncss and con~e·rvati>'m which arc so noticably present in eastern institutions. Hut thcre• will always be an es,cntial difference. Surely environment counts for much in every life. and if it does then as long as old \ l ount \losco\\ faces the l'nivcr::;ity, as lc ng as green orchards and golden wheat fields spread abou t o!>. as long- as we breathe the air wafted across to us from the pmey woods may we kt•ep a measure of the genuineness. the enthu::;iasm, t J.c in ckpenckncc. which -:rc tht• heritage of the childru1 o f the Great \\' e~t!
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