Our University HE history of the University begins with the first day of October, iSgi. Of course there was a prehistoric period, and some of the best authenticated dates in that borderland of myth and tradition may well be set down here. In March, 1885, the L,egislature of the State passed the Act under which the Grant of Endowment was made in the following November. May 14, 1887, the corner- stone was laid. March 26, 1891, David Starr Jordan was appointed President. The first announcement of Faculty and Courses of Instruction was made in Circular No. 4, printed in IndianapoHs and issued from Bloomington, Indiana, about the first of June, 1891. This Faculty list included the president, one non-resident professor, fifteen professors, the librarian, two assistant professors, two instructors, the registrar and two non-resident lecturers — twenty- five in all — of whom eighteen were to report for duty on the first day of October. Work was outlined in nineteen different depart- ments, thus giving the departments nearly one instructor apiece. All the courses in English were assigned to Professor Anderson, and it was announced that in addition he would have charge of the French during the first semester ! The first of the Faculty to reach Palo Alto were the President, Dr. Richardson and the Registrar, and the date was June 25, 1891. When in the cool of that evening the President and Registrar strolled into the unfinished administration building of the quadrangle they were promptly
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