Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Feiy buildings dotted the prairie campus in the early decade. This photo taken in 1870 shows left to right, the original fac'ulty residence, now Music Hall; Chemistry Hall; presidenVs resulence, later called South Hall; and Main Building. C 1861-1865 War between the States in the United States. 1863 Lincoln issues the Emancipa- tion Proclamation. 1864 The International Red Cross is founded through the influence of Henri Dunant. 1866 Atlantic cable is laid. 1867 The first volume of Karl Marxis Das Kapital is published. 1869 Driving of a golden spike in the plains of Utah marks completion of the first transcontinental railroad linking the coasts of the United States. Suez Canal is opened. 1876 Alexander Graham 1361le telephone is Operated successfully.

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In 1861 the Farm House, first campus building, was erected, For many years the residence of su- perintendents of the Model Farm, the house is presently occupied by the Dean of Agriculture. Help came at last in the form of the Morrill Land Grant Act passed by Con- gress and signed by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1862. The national measure poured fuel on the fire of hope for the fore- sighted architects of education by provid- ing lands of the federal government to the states in furtherance of instruction in agriculture and mechanic arts. In accept- ing the terms of the plan Sept. 11, 1862, Iowa became the first member of the Land Grant family. College-on a windswept prairie Landmarks were few on the windswept prairie land where the ffcollegeh stood. First building to be erected was the Farm House, a structure now standing almost in the middle of the expanding campus. Farm buildings and barns comprised the remainder of the physical structures for the first 10 years. In 1868 the first unit of the Main Build- ing was completed and plans began crystallizing for the opening of the college on March 17, 1869. Students were admit- ted and the Main Building dedicated that day. Adonijah S. Welch, a dignified, precise man, trained as a lawyer and at the time serving as a United States senator, became the first president of the new college in inauguration ceremonies the opening day of school. Curricula limited for early students Curricula in agriculture and mechanic arts comprised the original courses of study for the first class of 173 students, 136 men and 37 women. In the coeduca- tional classes students studied rhetoric, landscape, gardening, German, algebra, arithmetic, bookkeeping, geography, analysis and instrumental music.

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MW! mdmilria JWIIQH' Eleven years to the day after passage of the bill in the s , - House establishing the college, the institution opened its L doors to the first class of 173 students enrolled from 55 counties. The first graduating class, 24 men and 2 women , Tl' pictured here, received diplomas in the spring of 1872. Forerunner of todays widespread ex- tension program was the first farm institute conducted by President VVelch in 1870. TD . . IOIIICSEIC economy 15 offered for college credit i- Domestic economy, taught by the wife of the president, was offered in 1872 as Iowa State became the flrst land-grant college in the nation to offer college credit for this work. The importance of correlat- ing technical Class work and practical application was felt more strongly when the college adopted the motto hSCience with Practice?