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needs increased, L.S.U. moved to the famed Pentagon, near the present capitol. Outgrowing this site, final accommodations were made available at its current location. In 1925 the last move was made to the Gartness Plantation, south of Baton Rouge, purchased through a special bond issue and severence tax. L.S.U. reached national promi- SilC iS OUT W3-V Ol lilC nence the 1930 ' s when Governor Huey Long took great interest in the football team, and to support it, recruited the nation ' s largest school band. His rather Machiavellian methods of financing the school, plus the phenomenal student attendance at athletic events catapulted L.S.U. into nation-wide attention. Naturally this resulted in increased enrollment, and to the expansion of the University to its present size. This in brief is the hows and whys of Louisiana State University. The following is theJiistory of the school year 1964-1965. wtauBSamumamim m
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I crystalizing institution. Infant L.S.U., the Louisiana State Seminary was com- pleted on paper in 1859, at which time a contract for con- struction of the main building was let to Benjamin Cooper of Kentucky. Mr. Cooper brought his own slaves to the site to manufacture bricks, cut timber, and erect the structure. Sherman collected his faculty in December of 1859 and opened his doors January 2, 1860, to a first class of 73 cadets. Freshman hazing began the 1 1 same month when a new cadet JtlCT OrOgrCSS Unlimited was forced to mount guard with a broomstick Rifle on a conspicuous gallery. This action led to the prompt dismissal of the establishment ' s first First Sergent. Fire ravaged the grounds in 1869 , after which the seat of the school was moved to Baton Rouge. There residence was taken up in the present State School for the Deaf, and the name was changed to Louisiana State University. As spatial
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