THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA.

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AS SEEN FROM THE AIR

Nothing better epitomizes the growth and development of Arizona than the University at Tucson. This beautiful, modern institution, one of the finest in the Nation, is growing, vital, creative a worthy indication of an active, progressive state.

Not so long ago a Harvard student nearing his doctorate sought the nation's telescope which would allow him to peer extra miles into space and observe distant stars heretofore not brought into study. Extended clearness of vision, one of the southwest's greatest offerings to astronomers, drew him to the University of Arizona.

One of the Arizona university's specific advantages happens to be that offered to astronomers, and research of the institution's astronomy faculty has brought it national attention. Teamed together with outstanding advantages in the study of other subjects, they serve to boost the university's annual registration.

One immediately refers to mining and dry-climate agriculture in singling out the state university's notable contributions; but set deep in the territory in which Spanish influences have played an important role since the eighteenth century, the university offers its students of Spanish an unusual practical background. The nation's southwestern archaeological field centers in Arizona.

Virtually within a stone's throw of the campus students tread on abundant relics of prehistoric time, and read its story from excavations they make for themselves.

All of the other academic fields expected of a state university are spread over seven colleges, their schools and departments. The university's current annual enrollment of 2,900 gleans its schooling from a faculty and staff in excess of two hundred, functioning from a campus and physical plant valued at five and one-half million dollars. The Arizona university not only leads its

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA One of Nation's Leading Educational Institutions BY DON PHILLIPS

state in education practices, but conducts instruction on its experiment farms and by field trips and extension courses throughout the commonwealth which established it as a territorial university in 1885. Many of its faculty have international reputations.

The University of Arizona's faculty is led by Dr. Alfred Atkinson, for 33 years a member of the staff of the Montana State college, and for 18 years its chief executive. He associated with the Arizona university in August, 1937, becoming the university's twelfth president.

Arizona's university of today undoubtedly has grown far beyond the dreams of a few early legislators who took the state university in preference to the state prison from a stormy assembly session at the state capitol, and were berated for their pains upon returning home.

Founded in 1885 to be a college of mines, to lead the nation's mining institutions, the University of Arizona opened its doors for the first classes in 1891. (Turn to Page 30)THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, A MODERN WELL CONSTRUCTED EDUCATIONAL PLANT, ATTRACTS NEARLY 3,000 STUDENTS FROM THIS AND OTHER STATES AND COUNTRIES. SHOWN HERE ARE SOME OF THE BUILDINGS, MANY OF THEM OF NEW CONSTRUCTION. AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY. TOP ROW (LEFT 10 RIGHT) MUSEUM AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING; SECOND ROW, MINES AND THE LIBRARY BUILDING; THIRD ROW, FINE ARTS AND MINING; BELOW, AGRICULTURE AND AUDITORIUM.