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Brief Historical Sketch The necessity for brevity in this article forbids any extended historical sketch of the University. Only the most salient |»oints are, therefore, included in the following account. The University of Florida was created by an Act of the Legislature in 1905. This Act provided for the nlxdishment of all the State Institutions then existing and merging the same in the present Stale University and the Florida State College for Women. In the fall of 1905 the Universil opened its doors at the old Agricultural College plant at Lake City, with twenty-four instructors and other officials and an enrollment of 136 students. That year the general work of the institution was divided into the Academic depart ment embracing literary and scientific courses, engineering and agriculture; the Normal de-lartmcnl; and the Agricultural Kxpcrinicnl Station. The following year the University 0|tcned its session itt the two uncompleted dormitories on its new campus at Gainesville. In these buildings, and one or two small auxiliary buildings, all the activities of the institution were conducted until the fall of 1910. when the laboratories were moved into the new Science llall and the K | erimeril Station into its own new building. Both of these buildings were completed that year. The enrollment of students since the University o|»cned at (raincsville is as follows: 102 in '06 07, 103 in ’07 ’08, 103 in 08 09, 1S6 in 09 10. The matriculation for each succeeding year after that is as follows: 241, .102, 321. while this year the total enrollment, April 1st, is 354. Counting the enrollment of the University summer school, matriculations this summer have reached the net total of 483. The entire force of instructors and oilier officials has Increased from 21 in 1905 to 61 for the current year. Other buildings have been provided for by the Legislature since 1909 anil there now stand about the campus ten attractive brick buildings, well adapted to their various uses. The University domain has ! ccn increased until it now embraces over 600 acres; and the drives and walks and other improvements have greatly increased the beauty and attractiveness of the 90-acre plot set aside for buildings, drill grounds, athletic field ami the like. The University lias followed the tendency towards the English idea of a University; namely, an institution which consists of a number of associated colleges or schools. In 1910 the Slate University was reorganized and at present it carries on its activities under the following di isions; I. The College of Arts and Sciences; 2. The College of Agriculture; 3. The College of Engineering; 4. The College of Law; 5. The Teachers College; 6. The Agricultural Ex|»crimcitt Station; 7. The Graduate School; 8. The Extension Division. The first exists for the training of men in those studies which lead not to a panicular calling, hut to a general view of the world ami of their duly to it. The second exists to give a modicum of culture training, and emphasizes the various branches appertaining to scientific farming, horticulture, animal husbandry and the like. The College of Engineering offers advantages to pro i cclivc mechanical, electrical and civil engineers. This course has a faculty and equipment, as is the case in all other colleges, equal to the very l cst in the South. The College of Law prepares men for the highest service for the bench and bar of Florida. The Teachers’ College occupies its own building, as do the other colleges. This building is the gift from tile Peabody Board of Trust of New York, ami cost $40,000.00. Here men are trained for teachers and princi|»als, and for superintendents of schools of the commonwealth. The Ex| crimcnt Station is strictly a research department, maintained for the promotion of the agricultural ami horticultural interests of the State. The Graduate School, when fully developed and equipped, is designed to train men for scholarly research, by men who are expert investigators and leaders in their profession. The Extension Division at present. is conducting ncli itics along four different lines, namely: (a) Farmers Institutes; (b) Cooperative I’arm Demonstration Work; c) Correspondence Study; (d) Literary and Lecture Bureau. In this division of its work, as well as in the endeavors of nil the colleges, the watchword of the University is. “Scholarship and Service”. Perhaps enough has been said to indicate the progress of the Slate University during the eight years of its life. Its rapid development is probably without a parallel in the history of education. It has already become the pride of the State ami is attracting the attention of the leading educators of the country. Ami yet it is just now entering upon a field of usefulness and service to the young men who come within its walls, and to the state, w Inch the University has not been able hitherto to render. At the present rate of growth Florida may soon boast of the leading University of the entire South. (10)
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Foreword TIIIC Class of 1914 desires to present to all FLORIDA men “THE SEMINOLE”. In this publication we have endeavored to portray our college life at “The Baby University of the South”, in the hope that it will mirror the activities of the institution from the inside. We trust that to the Alumni it will serve to recall their own college experiences, and that it will ever he a source of pleasure to the present student and to the graduating class of the University.
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