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

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ia? vat?- When school started again in the fall of l860, Silas Totten was President of a University that now had an enrollment of l72. Before ascending to the presidency, Totten had been rector of Trinity parish of Iowa City, and he had many years of experience as a member of the faculties of Trinity college in Connecticut, where for ll years he was president, and at William and hlaryls in Virginia. At once the new President named department heads and reorganized the collegiate de- partment. He also suggested a preparatory school for I entrants l3 years old. The hlechanics' Academy now held the normal department, and when University classes convened in September, both sexes were admit- ted on equal terms. Wlhen Totten resigned in 1862, 25+ students were enrolled, 136 of them women. Page ll 'K Clinton Street in 185+ Cabovej, and a typical l'nive-rsity of Iowa coed of the early sixties Qrightj

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as a , . .sa i an The first faculty and President Dean fcenterj When the lylechanics' Academy was leased to the University in the spring of 1855, five teachers were employed: Alexander Johnston, math, Abel Beach, languages, E. M. GuH'in, prep school, James Hall, geology, Zoology and nat- ural history, and Josiah D. Whit- ney, mineralogy and chemistry. The attendance Was 124 C83 were men and fl-l Womenj. The term Was to extend lo Weeks. Tuition Was four dollars a term. Page 10 i A rf if is arg Recognizing the school's impoverished condition, Dean, in l858, recommended that Work be suspended in order to gather funds for operation of all departments, erect buildings, and to give students a chance to become qualified in other prep schools for University study. During his term, provision was made for the first building constructed by the State, Old South Hall, and e Board of Trustees excluding Women from attending any classes except in the normal department. Here the age requirement Was set at l7 years for men and l5 for Women, and students Were required to sign a pledge to become teachers in order to obtain free instruction. The Board de- manded that When instruction was re- sumed, Dean must become a resident of Iowa City. His interests, however, re- mained in the east, and in l859 President Dean resigned. Z The campus in the early Fifties, during Il Johnson county fair

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OLD SOUTH HALL, built in 1864, stood in the oval be- hind Schaeffer. Most used and abused of buildings, it burned March 10, 1901. x,6,afL.t X851 OW Third President A professor of chemistry and philosophy under Totten Y Oliver Spencer continued to teach after he became President. When the Civil War began, men started to 1. en 1st at once, and for the first time the number of Women doubled that of men. University coeds Wer e active in soldiers' aid societies in making bandages and scraping lint. In 1865, When 40 youths enlisted for the 100-day service, the Women bought a silk Ha and . g pre- sented it to the company, and the faculty gave the captain a beautiful sword. ,ww-