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

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The Natural History Museum contains a large and rapidly growing collection which is constantly being added to as the result of various expeditions undertaken by the professors and students of the University. At the present time a graduate of the University, Mr. Frank Russell, of the class of ' 92, is in the Northwestern Territory, where he will remain for about two years for the purpose of making collections for the museum, especially of the mammals and birds of that region. Instructor Shimek and Mr. C. L. Smith are now absent on an expedition to the region of the Nicaragua Canal. An expedition of twenty professors and students, headed by Professor Nutting, will spend three or four months next summer, on a schooner chartered for the purpose, exploring and collecting in the borhood of the Bahamas and Cuba. The Library of the University contains about 28,000 volumes, and the reading-room is well supplied with magazines, periodicals, and the current publications both literary and scientific. The work of the University is carried on in eleven different buildings of various sizes, not counting Close Hall, a large and handsome structure, which has been recently opened, and which is devoted to the uses of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.

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The early catalogues of the University show that it was in its first few years practically an academy, and that although a Collegiate Department was established the instruction in that department was about on a par with that given at the present time in the high schools and academies of the State. For the first few years five-sixths or more of the students were enrolled in the Preparatory Department or were pursuing studies of like grades 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 instruction 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 opportunity 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 1868, 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 tendent of Public Instruction, ex-officiis, and one member from each gressional District, who are elected by the General Assembly to serve for s ix years. The Collegiate Department embraces six courses of study: Classical, Philosophical, Letters, Scientific; Civil and Electrical Engineering. Four - years are required to graduate in either one of these courses, and on com- pletion the appropriate Bachelor ' s degree is granted. In the Law Department the course of study extends through two years, and on completion thereof the graduate is given the degree LL. B., and admitted to practice before the State and United States Courts. The Medical Depa rtment and the Homeopathic, Medical Department require the student to pursue his studies during three courses of six months each, and on completion of such course the degree of M. D. is granted. The Dental Department requires thiee years to complete the course and obtain the degree D. D. S. The course in Pharmacy extends through two years, and the degree Ph. G. is granted on its completion. During the year 1891-92 there were seventy-five professors, assistant professors, lecturers and instructors, and the total number of students enrolled was 904. The total number of graduates from the several departments since the foundation of the University is 3,540. Within the past few years great improvements have been made in the facilities for instruction, especially in the matter of laboratory work. Laboratories are now open to the students in the several courses in which practical instruction is given in the following subjects: chemistry, macy, physics, zoology and taxidermy, physiology, histology, bacteriology and pathology, botany, geology, and experimental psychology. Practical instruction is given wherever possible in the various laboratories connected with the Medical, Dental, and Pharmacy Departments. 10

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Cottegict.e eparsn?ep, Faculty arid Iristruetors. CHARLES ASHMEAD SCHAEFFER, A. M., PH. D., President of the University. Born in Pennsylvania, 1843. Graduated at University of Pennsylvania, 1861, A. B.; Harvard, 1863-65; Goettingen, 1867-68; School of Mines 1868-69; Assistant in istry, Union College, 1865-67; Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Cornell versity, 1869-87; Dean of Faculty, 1886-87; President, S. U. I., 1887 AMOS NOYES CURRIER, A. M., Professor of Latin Language and Literature, and Dean of the Collegiate Department. Born in New Hampshire, 1632. Dartmouth College, A. B., 1856; A. M., 1859. Teacher at University, Pella, Iowa, for six years. Served the Union during three and half years of Civil War. Professor in University, 1867. SAMUEL CALVIN, A. M., PH. D., Professor of Geology and Structural Zoology Born in Scotland, 1840. Student in Lenox College. Enlisted in army in 1864. Instructor Mathematics and Science, Lenox College, 1865-66; Professor of same in Lenox 1866-69; Principal Fourth Ward School, Dubuque, Iowa, Professor in S. U. I., 1874. THOMAS HUSTON McBRIDE, A. M., Professor of Botany. Born in Tennessee, 1848. Student in Lenox College; Monmouth College, 1869, A. B.; 1872, A. Teacher since 1866; Professor in S. U. I., 1878. LAUNCELOT WINCHESTER ANDREWS, A. M., PH. 0.,. Professor of Chemistry. Born in Ontario, 1856. Yale, 1875, A. M.; University of Goettingen, 1882, Ph. Professor in S. U. I., 1885. 12