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y-T i.- ' - C ' U Ji-yc y a ( THE MAGMA I960 Published by the Associated Students of Montana School of Mines MONTANA Editor LLEWELLYN FISCHER Associate Editor JOHN BENNETT
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A Historical Sketch The foundation for the Montana School of Mines was laid in the Enabling Act. This act provided for an appropriation of forty thousand acres of public land to each of the Dakotos, and one hundred thousand acres to the State of Montana for the establishment and maintenance in each of a State School of Mines; this legislation was a congruous sequence to the Morrill Act of 1862, which provided for the establishment of state schools for instruction in agri- culture and the mechanic arts. The State of Montana promptly accepted the donation of lands for a School of Mines, and appointed officers to select the amount allowed by the government. The state legislature resolved to have the School of Mines estab- lished and put in operation as soon as the necessary preliminaries could be arranged. It chose the City of Butte as the location for the school and appointed a commission consisting of five persons to prepare plans and spacifications for the erection of the building. The original School of Mines building, (now the Main Hall), was erected m 1896-7 on a plot of ground which comprised the Mint and Vanderbilt lodes, donated to the school by General Charles S. Warren, and Messrs. George H. Casey, Levi J. Hamilton, R. H. Wearing, Joseph R. Silver, Robert A. Day, and Henry Haupt. The legislature at this session in 1899, contemplated the opening of the school at some time in the year 1900, and made an appropriation of $26,300 for the equipment of the building and for maintenance to the end of the fiscal year, November, 1900. The School of Mines was opened for the reception of pupils September 1 1, 1900. The total number admitted during that year was 39, classified as fol- lows: Freshmen, 17; Sophomores, 3; Juniors, 1; and 18 students enrolled in special and preparatory courses.
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