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COWTOWN GETS CULTURE
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Law — which had been founded in 1895 and boasted a galaxy of alumni, including Harry S. Truman — became the School of Law of the University. Three years later the Kansas City Western Dental College, founded in 1881 and now the fifth largest dental school in the United States, became the School of Dentistry. And in 1943 the Kansas City College of Pharmacy, founded in 1885, became the School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Decker, only 33 at the time of his appointment, was the youngest university president in the nation. And he was president of the youngest university in the nation.
He began collecting young professors, men who were outstanding and showed definite promise of becoming top-flight educators. At the beginning of World War II, the average age of the faculty was 35, as compared with a national average of 56. The present faculty is nearly as large as was the first student body.
Then the University launched a 'Visiting professors" plan. Each year
it brought several internationally known, and very expensive, teachers to the campus to supplement the regular staff. This proved so successful that the system has been continued, and is being expanded.
In the University's fourteen years, enrollment has climbed to more than 3,000 students. It is still increasing. Indications are that it will level off around the 6,000 mark, as soon as facilities are developed to accommodate them.
The original building now houses the administrative offices, and seven other buildings have been added. The campus has grown to 85 acres. The grounds, buildings, and equipment represent an investment of about $2,000,000.
But best of all, the development of the University of Kansas City has made possible a cultural center which is absolutely unique. It is now only partially completed, but when finished will be without peer anywhere in the world.
The unusual technical research, fine arts, and music center will be con' tained within a strip of rolling, heavily wooded land a mile long and perhaps three-quarters of a mile wide. A hospital and recuperative home, the Linda S. Hall scientific library, and the Midwest Research Institute will join the magnificent William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, the University of Kansas City, Menorah Hospital, several churches, Rockhurst College, and the Kansas City Art Institute.
This last institution is a four-year professional school providing a complete education in the fine and ap'