St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Queen candidates for Fall Festival. Historically Speaking In May of 1837, the trustees set forth the requirements for receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University. After a great deal of deliberation, the report was finally adopted, and it speci- fied that The classical course shall com- prehend a complete knowledge of the Greek, Latin, and English languages; of geography, use of globes, ancient and modern history, logic and principles of moral philosophy, including ethics and metaphysics; of rhetoric and mathe- matics, including arithmetic, algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, surveying, mensuration, conic sections, and the principles of natural philoso- phy. Degrees of graduation were first con- ferred by the University at the annual commencement of 1834, and the first graduates were John Servary, A.M., P. A. F. Bouffay, A.B., and Peter A. Walsh, A.B. Students at work in the Institute of Technology. Notre Dame was a pushover com pared with this. Page 10

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As stated previously, classes were begun at the College on November 2, 1829, and during that month 30 boarders and 120 day pupils were registered. Thenceforth the number of students, especially boarders, steadily increased, and when the institution became known in the South, the sons of rich planters especially in Louisiana, and of wealthy families in New Orleans, largely increased the number of students. Early in th e school year of 1831, it became apparent that additional room was needed and consequently the east wing was begun and completed in the summer of 1832. The west wing was begun in 1833 and was finished in 1834. In 1832, the Asiatic cholera broke out in St. Louis, returning in a still more virulent type in 1833. During the period of its greatest violence the students were removed to St. Stanislaus Seminary near Florissant. A typical street scene in earlier St. Louis Davis-Shaughnessy Flail. ThiSchool 1 f Commerce and Finance. Page 9

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Clemens Hall, dormitory for male students. In 1835, Father Verhaegen held a consultation with the Medical Society of St. Louis relative to the establishing of a medical faculty. It was not until October, 1836, that they finally came to an agree- ment. A constitution was drawn up, and sanctioned by both parties. Although all the plans were laid, the first course of lectures was not inaugurated until 1S42, when classes were held in a building erected for the purpose on Washington Avenue west of Tenth Street. Tin- University ' s exhibit at tin- St. Louis World ' s Fair. Page It