University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

Page 6 text:

DATES AND PLACES IMPORTANT,

Page 5 text:

CLn- K »cL. “ Ipse mihi custos incorruptissimus omnis circum doctores aderat ? Quid Multa ? Pudicam, Qui primus virtutis honos, servavit ab omni non solum facto verum, opprobrioquoque turpi.” I aw ' — Horace, 6th Satire Lib. I.

Page 7 text:

The University of Ur Kansas YOU Come up from the south over the ’Frisco and are whirled along among the Ozarks instead of the fertile cottonfields of the Arkansas valley, you come at last to a region prettier than you had thought our State could boast. The flying train gives vou but short glimses of green clad hills and winding Valleys ; of streams flow¬ ing like liquid crystal along their rambling beds, and rocky cliffs whose gray moss proclaims the ages they have stood. Suddenly the train turns out of a narrow valley and instead of mountains vou see a broad plain where all is life, and far off in the distance, set like a crown upon a rounded hilltop, the University of Arkansas. Placed as it is in the very center of the finest fruit country in the world, surrounded by the pure air and cooling breeze of the Ozarks. the University enjoys a salubrity of climate that is rarely to be met with. The health of the students is excellent, and every precaution is taken to guard against disease. The University was founded in 1S71, under the provisions of the United States government appropriating land for that purpose. Its first class was graduated in 1S75, and eight of its members are now living. Since its foundation its growth has been something remarkable. Accord¬ ing to the catalogue for 1S96T97 it boasts an enrollment of S50, thus placing it among the largest in the country. This year it is expected that the total enrollment will be something over 900. As regards equipment, though the legislature has not been so liberal as it might be, still we are very well off. The Law and Medical depart¬ ments are at Little Rock, the Branch normal at Pine Bluff, and the others at Fayetteville. The University graduates students prepared for practical work in scientific agriculture, in engineering (electrical, civil and mechanical,) or makes them practical chemists, geologists, botanists or entomologist. The laboratories are thoroughly equipped with modern apparatus for work in seven different sciences, and are among the best in the South. The engineering laboratories are also well equipped, besides the ‘‘shops,” as they are called, for instruction in wood working and forging There are full courses of instruction in seven different languages, besides English and Anglo-Saxon, in mathematics, logic and astronomy, in the various natural and mental sciences, in history, in pedagogics, economics and sociology, in music, and in art.