Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY LOCATION HE University is situated within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, two miles north of the Union Station and about three miles from the State Capitol. The University grounds consist of four hundred and thirty-three acres, of which about three hundred and twenty-three acres are devoted to agricultural and horticultural purposes. HISTORY The land grant made by the United States under an act approved by President Lincoln, July 2, lS62, provided that there should be granted to each state an amount of public land equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative to which the state was entitled by the apportion- ment of the census of IBSO. The proceeds under this act were to constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which was to remain forever undiminished, and the interest of the same was to be inviolably applied by each state which should talte and claim the benefits of the act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading objects shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriulture and the mechanic arts, in such a manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. Governor Tod, in November, l862, brought the subject before the State Board of Agriculture and later to the attention of the Legislature. In january, IS64, Hon. Columbus Delano introduced a bill accepting the grant. This became a law February 9, IB64, and pledged the faith of the statelto the performance of all the conditions and provisions contained therein. In 1866, an act introduced by Hon. T. Brooks was passed, which provided for the establishment of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, but the provisions were not carried into effect, and a second act, introduced by Hon. R. P. Cannon, was passed in l870, entitled, An act to establish and maintain an Agricultural and Mechanical College in Ohio. Under the provisions of this act the institution was located in Columbus, and the Board proceeded to the organization of the college and the election of a faculty of instruction. The institution was opened for the reception of students on the seventeenth day of Sep- tember, IS73. In i878 the Legislature passed An act to reorganize and change the name of the Ohio Agricul- tural and Mechanical College and to repeal certain acts therein mentioned. The act provided that the institution should be hereafter designated as The Ohio State University. The original endow- ment has been supplemented, and the objects of the University promoted, by a permanent annual grant from the United States, under an act of l890, by special appropriations of the General Assembly, and, in l89l, by a permanent annual grant from the state, which grant was doubled by the Legislature Gf IS96, and further increased in l906. ln accordance with the spirit of the law under which it is Organized, the State University aims to furnish ample facilities for education in the liberal and industrial arts, the sciences and the languages, and for thorough technical and professional study of agriculture, engineering in its various departments, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, and law. Through the aid which has been received from the United States, and from the state, it is enabled to offer its privileges, with a slight charge for incidental expenses, to all persons of either sex who are qualified for admissionf 17'

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