The University’s Growing Pains
Facing a surge in enrollment, the University of Washington Territory expands its boarding facilities to accommodate a new generation of students.
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During the last year, the Regents have largely increased the facilities for boarding by erecting a new and commodious building. The new building will be used exclusively for young gentlemen. The old boarding house, after being thoroughly repaired, will be set apart for young lady boarders and members of the faculty. Pupils in the boarding department will be under the immediate supervision and care of the President and faculty. Over two hundred different students have been accommodated at the boarding department during the year just closed. The large number in attendance proves that the enlarged accommodations were provided none too soon. With the modified arrangements contemplated for next year, there will be accommodations for thirty-two young gentlemen and fifteen young lady boarders.
“It is the aim to make the boarding department a pleasant and desirable home for students where they can have clean, comfortable rooms and plenty of good, wholesome food.”
In 1884, the University of Washington was looking for room to grow in a city of ten thousand. Today, the institution is a global research powerhouse, but the historic challenge of providing affordable, supervised housing remains a central, unresolved tension in Seattle’s ongoing growth.
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