Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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' ■M ' fa ' ' ' .■■I. ii? :!.i..ii .i- ' T ' !- , ' : -:P:r?T M ' .i;... beginning in 1897 when the trustees appropriated $1,000 to fit up a department labo- ratory. And in 1 899 another department was founded when the Ohio Forestry Bureau was located at the University. Ohio State was also the first and until recent years the only school to have a course in Ceramics. Old University Hall is the oldest building on the campus. In the first ten years after it was built a few others sprang up, the Botany building, the old Mechanical build- ing and the Electrical and Chemical laboratories. Orton Hall and Hayes Hall were built in 1891 and somewhat later came the Gymnasium, the Biology building, Towns- hend Hall, the Observatory and the Law building. At present every year adds some new buildings to the oval. The definite plan of the campus that was drawn up by a landscape gardner in 1900 has been followed in all the development of the campus with the result that the arrangement is graceful and artistic as well as efficient in spite of the constant additions that are being made. Ohio State has had since its beginning four men at its head. In 1 873 Edward Orton was made President of the little college of eight instructors and fifty students. He was followed by William H. Scott, who served until I 896, when James H. Canfield was elected to the chair. In I 899 Dr. William O. Thompson became President and has continued in office up to the present time. 11 14

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(9|i -;vv:v I o - (9 The History of Ohio State University , UR Alma Mater first opened her doors in 1873 as the Ohio Agricultural and 11 Mechanical College. The movement to establish the school started in 1 862 when Congress passed an act granting to each state lands amounting to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative. All money derived from the sale of these lands was to be used for the support of colleges to promote practical and liberal education in the various states. Ohio accepted the offer and appointed men to organize such a college. Various towns and counties sent in bids to have the school located with them and it was finally awarded to Franklin County, which made an offer of $300,000. This money was largely spent in the erection of a building, our well known University Hall, and the purcha se of the Neil farm of 300 acres on North High Street, a location well fitted for the purpose by its beauty and the natural spring upon it. As the college grew other funds were necessary beside the annual state appropria- tions and in 1 890 the United Stales government made a permanent annual grant and the state in 1891 made a similar grant which was doubled in 1896. The name had been changed in I 878 by the Ohio Legislature from the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Ohio State University was well launched on its career. For the purposes of practical and liberal education reads the act of establish- ment and the courses of study were planned in accordance. Eight instructors there were at first who gave courses in geology, physics and mechanics, chemistry, languages and literature, ancient and modern, civil engineering, military tactics and zoology. As these courses grew and expanded they developed into departments with many instructors for each subject and were later differentiated into the various colleges. Arts, Agriculture, Engineering, etc. Several departments entered the University full-fledged by act of Legislature or fiat of the Board of Trustees. The School of Mines was provided for by an act of Congress granting a yearly appropriation of $10,000, increasing to $15,000. The Law School was founded in 1891 By resolution of the Board of Trustees and classes met for a time at the Franklin County Court House. Domestic Science had a humble 13

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(y-MAKlO-tgl ' J T -«x; Makio History HE history of the University student year-book has in general paralleled that of the University itself. In 1880 for the first time appeared a little 68 page annual called Makio, or the Magic Mirror, published by the two fraternities at Ohio State at that time. There were few student organizations to repre- sent, and most of the book was taken up by rather personal cuts and grinds upon students and faculty. In 1882, because of rivalry with the newly- established Lantern, there was no Makio, and to balance up, the next year two separate Makios were published by two rival factions. By 1 894 there were 265 pages exclusive of advertising. In 1896, under the name The Scarlet and Gray, the annual was published by the fraternities and literary societies, and this arrangement continued until 1906, at which time, because of financial failure under the old arrangement, the Makio was published by representatives of the Junior class, under which management it has since been published annually. From the beginning, the Makio has grown in spirit as in size and scope. Gradu- ally emerging from the position of a partisan publication with rather narrow interests, of a flawed mirror giving a distorted image, it has become a thoroughly representative mirror of student activities, devoted to the interests of the University; and this year, marking the merging of Starling-Ohio with Ohio State, it enters upon a new period of expansion. Its future, like that of the University to which it is devoted, will inevitably be one of rapid, healthy growth in all respects. 15