out the year. The enrollment of the summer session has steadily increased. This is but one of the many things that the present management is doing to make the institution serve the state in every possible way. It is but one indication that we have caught the spirit of service so clearly in evidence throughout the length and breadth of the land.

Another feature of university work that has been pushed very vigorously during the past few years is that of the library. The regular library staff consists of five members with a number of student assistants. The card catalogue titles now number about 100,000, and, in addition to making it as useful as possible to students and members of the faculty on the grounds, every effort is being put forth to make it available to those outside of the university. This is done by the preparation of a list of subjects for debates and accompanying bibliographies for the high schools, by the loaning of such books as are needed for work in correspondence courses or the study of any special subject by local clubs or literary organizations, and by securing for temporary use in the university library by special loans such books as are to be found only in the larger libraries of the country. In this way the university has become a reference library and center of general information along literary lines for a circle of readers as wide as the state.

With the opening of the Public Health Laboratory on July 1, 1907, the university entered upon a new field of public service, that of the prolongation of the human life, the prevention of disease, and the co-operation with all the regular agencies of society in the improvement of public health. So efficient has this work of the university proved to be, that two branch laboratories were established in 1910, at Minot and Bismarck. Among the many problems considered, two of immediate and vital importance to the citizens of the state continue to be the subject of research at the Public Health Laboratory, the purification of the water supply for city populations, and a sanitary method of sewage disposal adapted to climate of extremes, such as is experienced in our state. Important reports covering valuable investigations have already been made and there are still others soon to appear, of equal importance. Other problems of public health have been dealt with effectively by the laboratory. Dr. L. D. Bristol has for the past two years carried on the work which was so well begun by Dr. G. F. Ruediger.

The most important single university exercise of the week is Convocation, which has developed out of the daily morning chapel exercises of early years. Convocation is the weekly gathering of faculty, students and townspeople at the Gymnasium to hear some lecturer of note, or some local speaker, on a topic of general interest. Within the last two years it has become specially significant as furnishing one of the principal means for the transmission to the general university body of the current thought in the larger world outside their immediate circle.

Among all the numerous means for securing a wider scope for university activity, none are more significant than those grouped under the Extension Division, created in 1910. President McVey developed the two most important features of this department as a means of meeting a growing need throughout the state, and also to utilize more effectively our accumulated resources, which were at the disposal of the public whenever the adequate means should be provided for their distribution. Correspondence courses and extension lectures are proving as in other institutions, the best means for reaching the larger university body throughout the state. Much remains to be done in perfecting the machinery of

this department. President McVey has helped to pioneer the movement through its initial stages, and, as the lecturer most widely in demand, has disseminated the ideas of university service among all classes and in every part of the state. The division was for two years in charge of Mr. J. J. Pettijohn. Dr. F. C. English was director during the year 1914-15. At the beginning of the school year 1915-16, the division was reorganized and the work placed under two bureaus, the Bureau of Educational Co-operation and the Bureau of Public Information, a secretary being placed in charge of each bureau. The Bureau of Public Information represents a new phase of extension service in North Dakota in its work of publicity and the general spread of public information along various lines. The Bureau of Educational Co-operation carries on the older branches of the extension service, the correspondence Study Courses, and the university lecture and lyceum courses.

No summary of the university's work is in any way complete without a word as to President McVey and his administration. Since he came to the university, there has been a noticeable awakening in all lines of university service. The standards of scholarship have been raised. The Extension Division is but one manifestation of the new conception of the State University, the institution which really stands for state-wide service and which is not simply a "Campus school." For the acceptance of this large idea in education as a working thing in North Dakota, Dr. McVey is very largely responsible. The president has won for the university a very important place in the hearts of North Dakota people. Through a number of the university's achievements, he has increased the interest of educators in the University of North Dakota, which, catching the best inspiration in college circles, has yet found for itself rather unique fields of service.

Adopted by Twelfth Legislative Assembly, Chapter 283, 1911, Session Laws. It was the flag of the Territorial Militia and of the First North Dakota Infantry, carried in 37 engagements in the Philippine Islands in the Spanish-American War, 1898-9, on the Mexican border in the near wear with Mexico in 1916-17, and on the battlefields of France in 1917 in the World War for Liberty.

CHAPTER XXXVII

NORTH DAKOTA VOLUNTEERS

COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE FIRST NORTH DAKOTA INFANTRY, U. S. V., IN THE CAMPAIGN IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

COMPANY A-FIRST BATTALION

William P. Moffett, Capt., editor, Bismarck, N. D.; S. H. Newcomer, Ist Lieut., printer, Bismarck, N. D.; William J. McLean, 2d Lieut., printer, Bismarck, N. D.; Hugh A. Scott, 1st Sergt., student, Bismarck, N. D.; Lynn W. Sperry, Q. M. Sergt., rancher, Bismarck, N. D.; William A. McHugh, Sergt., printer, Bismarck, N. D.; Joseph A. McGinnis, Sergt., engineer, Mandan, N. D.; Alexander H. Louden, Sergt., farmer, Bathgate, N. D.; Ira A. Correll, Sergt., bookkeeper, Munfordsville, Ky.; Emil Froemmig, Corp., painter, Bismarck, N. D.; Thomas J. Dalton, Corp., cigar-maker, Bismarck, N. D.; Rudolph W. Patzman, Corp., cook, Bismarck, N. D.; Emil F. Wotz, Corp., farmer, Bismarck, N. D.; Fred N. Whittaker, Corp., clerk, Grand Forks, N. D.; Charles H. McDonald, Corp., laborer, Bismarck, N. D.; William J. Pettee, Mus., printer, Bismarck., N. D.; John L. Peterson, Mus., clerk, Bismarck, N. D.; Charles W. Firm, artificer, blacksmith, Centralia, Wash.; John R. Edick, wagoner, rancher, Livona, N. D.; Wallace Stoddard, cook, aeronaut, Hamilton, Ill.

Privates

Andrew Anderson, cook, Bismarck, N. D.; Robert E. Baer, butcher, San Francisco, Cal.; Frank E. Berg, laborer, Bismarck, N. D.; James L. Black, farmer, Sterling, N. D.; Daniel L. Boutillier, farmer, Williamsport, N. D.; Edmund L. Butt, laborer, Billings, Mont.; William A. Crumley, cook, Bismarck, N. D.; William J. Dolan, bookkeeper, Bismarck, N. D.; John P. Drury, boiler-maker, Mandan, N. D.; John J. Durkin, laborer, San Francisco, Cal.; Arthur C. Eggleston, painter, Fargo, N. D.; Willard J. Flynn, laborer, Bismarck, N. D.; Martin Feely, Jr., rancher, Mandan, N. D.; John Galloway, laborer, Sterling, N. D.; Edward C. Grogan, laborer, Livona, N. D.; Charles Glitschka, clerk, Bismarck, N. D.; Gilbert Glitschka, laborer, Hawley, Minn.; John Halverson, laborer, Deerfield, Wis.; Jay L. Hill, lineman, Mandan, N. D.; Frank B. Hungerford, horseshoer, Cooperstown, N. D.; Robert Jager, teamster, Bismarck, N. D.; Mons E. Jerdee, carpenter, Hope, N. D.; Fred E. Kuhnast, carpenter, Fargo, N. D.; Rudolph Koplen, laborer, Neenah, Wis.; Richard M. Longfellow, boiler-maker, Mandan, N. D.; Andrew M. Lobner, laborer, Bis

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