Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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fii to sea, replenishing the earth with its sediments and threatening with its floods in the background. Here on its banks is L.S.U. It is a product of its environment the land, the times, and the people. Article 136 of the state constitution of 1812 provided for the establishment of a seminary of learning, but this interesting detail was not acted on until 1852. In that year the Louisiana State Legislature passed act 216, locating such a future school in Rapides Parish within a four-mile radius of Alexandria, on the north side of the Red River. The following legislative session of 1853 saw the endorsement of Act 72 on March 31, which approved a site of 438 acres in the present Pineville area, of which the cost . . . shall not exceed the sum of $3,190. In 1857 a Board of Visitors was organized and less than a year later was renamed the Board of Supervisors. Among its first acts was the election of Wil- liam Tecumseh Sherman (of Sherman s March through Georgia fame), and army resignee practicing law in Kansas, as head of the her present dynamic ' mmmmmm , . . : m -