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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The pages of this book will introduce you to the University of Iowa - its campus, the services available to students, the rules and regulations under which it operates, the accommodations for housing, the campus activities and the student organizations in which students may participate. But these are only adjuncts to the main purpose of the University as a center for educational, research and service activities. A university is many things to many people, but basic to all of them: a university is a place to learn. You have chosen to continue your formal education beyond the high school. This is a wise decision for many reasons. Whether your goal be that of the alert and intelligent citizen, or the skillful, scholarly, scientific or professional man or woman, you wisely recognize the necessity, for yourself and the society in which you will live, to acquaint yourself with the vast body of knowledge which is accumulated and disseminated by the faculties of an institution of higher learning. When we survey the condition of Russia forty years ago, China twenty years ago, and many of the Afro-Asian nations today, we can appreciate the wisdom of our ancestors in early making provision for widespread opportunities for education. Today, attendance at elementary schools is almost universal; secondary school education is available for most of those who want it and are capable of benefiting from it; and institutions of higher education are numerous and varied. In the educational program of the United States the several states of the Union have assumed the responsibility for the establishment and support of colleges and universities to provide educational opportunity for the young men and women who are residents of the respective states. This University is one of those institutions. It was created by the first General Assembly of the State of Iowa in 1847, only fifty nine days after the Territory of Iowa had been admitted to the Federal Union. Legislation also provided that the building which served as the last capitol of the Territory and the first capitol of the State should be the center of this state supported university. That building known as Old Capitol. still dominates the center of the University of Iowa and stands as a monument to all those citizens of Iowa who have believed in the necessity for higher education and have demonstrated their willingness to provide for it. Here you are being given the opportunity to carry out the hopes and convictions of our pioneer legislators. May you seize those opportunities to broaden your knowledge, increase your moral strength and maturity and insure yourselves the benefits of a university education ! The University - its faculty and staff and its student body - welcomes you to this institution. We hope that your years here will be rewarding and satisfying and that they will enable you to become an effective and worthy citizen of this State and of the nation. If this should come to pass, the University of Iowa will have served you well. 5
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The pages of this book will introduce you to the University of Iowa - its campus, the services available to students, the rules and regulations under which it operates, the accommodations for housing, the campus activities and the student organizations in which students may participate. But these are only adjuncts to the main purpose of the University as a center for educational, research and service activities. A university is many things to many people, but basic to all of them: a university is a place to learn. You have chosen to continue your formal education beyond the high school. This is a wise decision for many reasons. Whether your goal be that of the alert and intelligent citizen, or the skillful, scholarly, scientific or professional man or woman, you wisely recognize the necessity, for yourself and the society in which you will live, to acquaint yourself with the vast body of knowledge which is accumulated and disseminated by the faculties of an institution of higher learning. When we survey the condition of Russia forty years ago, China twenty years ago, and many of the Afro-Asian nations today, we can appreciate the wisdom of our ancestors in early making provision for widespread opportunities for education. Today, attendance at elementary schools is almost universal; secondary school education is available for most of those who want it and are capable of benefiting from it; and institutions of higher education are numerous and varied. In the educational program of the United States the several states of the Union have assumed the responsibility for the establishment and support of colleges and universities to provide educational opportunity for the young men and women who are residents of the respective states. This University is one of those institutions. It was created by the first General Assembly of the State of Iowa in 1847, only fifty nine days after the Territory of Iowa had been admitted to the Federal Union. Legislation also provided that the building which served as the last capitol of the Territory and the first capitol of the State should be the center of this state supported university. That building known as Old Capitol. still dominates the center of the University of Iowa and stands as a monument to all those citizens of Iowa who have believed in the necessity for higher education and have demonstrated their willingness to provide for it. Here you are being given the opportunity to carry out the hopes and convictions of our pioneer legislators. May you seize those opportunities to broaden your knowledge, increase your moral strength and maturity and insure yourselves the benefits of a university education ! The University - its faculty and staff and its student body - welcomes you to this institution. We hope that your years here will be rewarding and satisfying and that they will enable you to become an effective and worthy citizen of this State and of the nation. If this should come to pass, the University of Iowa will have served you well. 5
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