University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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History of State Urliyersity. N July, 1840, Congress passed an act providing for the setting apart of two townships, within the Territory of Iowa, for the use and support of a university, whenever the territory should become a state. By the adoption of the constitution, the people accepted this grant of land; and, in February, 1847, an act was passed, locating and establishing the State University at Iowa City. The first session was opened in Mechanic ' s Academy, in Iowa City, in March, 1855. At that time there were established, a Preparatory, a Normal, and a Collegiate Department, but almost the entire work done, was in the first two. After three years, namely, in 1858, all departments were closed, with the exception of the Normal Department, and remained so until September, 186J, when the two that had been suspended, were again put into operation. Since that time the University has continued its regular sessions without interruption. For the first few years, five-sixths or more of the students were rolled in the Preparatory Department, or were pursuing studies of like grade in the Normal. Even in the Collegiate Department the range of instruction, and the facilities for work were extremely limited. But since those days the institution has grown, and has become a University in fact, as well as in name. The several professional departments have been added, thereby furnishing the youth of the state with ample tunity for obtaining instruction in law, in medicine, in dentistry and in pharmacy. These several departments were added to the University as follows: The Law Department in 1869, the Medical Department in 1870, the Homeopathic Medical Department in 1877, the Dental Department in 1882, and the Pharmacy Department in 1885, The government of the University is committed to the charge of a Board of Regents, consisting of the Governor of the State, and the intendent of Public Instruction, ex-officio members, and one member from each Congressional District, who are elected by the General bly to serve for six years. There are, at present, seventy professors, assistant professors and structors. The number of students in all departments is eight hundred and forty-five.

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10. A new and very commodious Hospital, under control of the ters of Mercy, is available for clinical work of the Medical Department. It contains seventy-five beds, and a large amphitheatre for clinical tures. 11. A new Therrlic,.al Laboratory will be completed and ready for occupation at the beginning of the school year 1891-92. It will be a brick building, three stories in height, and will cost $50,000. 12. The Y. M. C. A. Building will be finished during the coming summer. It is of brick, and will cost $35,000. It will contain a large assembly hall, gymnasium, reading rooms, and bath rooms. 13. The Studeilts ' Observatory is a one story frame building, 14 feet by 20 feet in size. 14. The Ice House is the most important of all the University buildings. It is built on the most approved plan, whitewashed within and without. It is in the Queen Ann style, heated by steam and plied with an electric elevator. This building has a capacity of 40,000 tons of ice, also rooms for the preservation of plucked students. It is under the immediate charge of Rev. James Berry. M A., M.D . D.D.

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Resident Graduates. Cox, Helen M., B.S., State University of Iowa, 1886. Dietz, Jane B., B.D., State University of 1870. Dugan, Salome, Ph.D., State University of Iowa, 1890. Jewett, Anne Belle, B.S., State University of Iowa, 1890. Lewis, Winifred G., Ph.B., State University of Iowa, 1890. Lichty, Calvin A., C.E., State University of Iowa, 1890. Littig, Lawrence W., M.D., State University of Iowa. Mordoff, Carrie E., Ph.B., State University of Iowa, 1884. Neff, Mrs. Theodore L. Noble, A. B., Ph.B., State University of Iowa, 1887. Paine, Katherine, Ph.B., State University of Iowa, 1889. Remley, Hubert, C.E., State University of Iowa, 1890. Stebbins, Lida B., B.S., State University of Iowa, 1890. • Stimmel, Hattie Jeannette, Ph.B., State University of Iowa, 1890. Techentin, henry W., B.S., State University of Iowa, 1890. Tripp, Clara Elizabeth, Ph .B., State University of Iowa, 1888. Welch, Mary Stone, 13.D , State University of Iowa, 1870.