University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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tthr Sixtieth Auniurrsarg OF THE IFomtfotng af Ihr lalr of MECHANIC ' S ACADEMY. THE FIRST BUILDING OCCUPIED BY THE UNIVERSITY THE PRESENT SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Atlrnbanrr at 3outa by 366-7 B 1SW-7 HUM-,.; 59 7 ' . ' 571 1331 2050

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: IB47--1307 By AitOS ' SOTES CUKRIEK II E act of the Legislature establishing the Uni- versity was approved February 25, 1847. By the act of January 15 and 16, 1849, branches were created and located at Fairfield and Du- buque and placed upon equal footing with the University at Iowa City in respect to funds and all other matters. ' 7 The branch at Du- buque was never organized; that at Fairfield had only a brief existence. From 1850 to 1857 the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the State University of Iowa, located first at Davenport and then at Keokuk. had a nominal connection with the University. The new state (-(institution of 1857 put an end to this absurd policy of division by restricting the University to one place, without branches at any other place. The Board of Trustees first met in the early summer of 1847 but lacked the means and appliances necessary to open the Uni- versity until March 1855, when for a term of sixteen weeks in- struction was given by three teachers to nearly one hundred stu- dents, of whom few if any were above preparatory grade. The first commencement occurred June 30, 1857. In June, 1858, were graduated 1 collegiate and 5 normal students. From 1858 to 1860 only a normal department of very elementary grade was continued and 11 were graduated. However, in a very real sense, the University proper dates from its opening in September 1860 with an organized faculty and moderate appliances for effective work. Perhaps a score of the one hundred students then in attendance were of collegiate grade, but the faculty wisely received such as it could get and adapted its instruction to their need and so for some veal ' s preparatory and normal work was largely predominant. During the first decennial period. 1860-1 to 1870-1, was estab- lished the Law department in 1868, and the Medical department in 1869. The Zetagathiau Society was organized in 1861; the Erodelphiau in 1862: the Hesperian in 1863; Irving Institute in 1864. The University Reporter dates from 1868. The at- tendance advanced from 172 to 447. Graduates during this period: Normal. - -- 114 Collegiate. --------- 49 Law. --.-----..--95 Medical. - 3 Total 261 During the second decennial period the Homeopathic depart- ment was organized, in 1877; the Normal department dropped in