University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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H The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts l l small faculty, the Mathematician, The act of February 15, 1869, to establish the Uni- versity provided that there should be six departments. Of these the first named and the first to be organized was A College of Ancient and Modern Literature, Mathematics, and the Natural Sciences. The act of organization names twelve chairs in this college, but, at the start, in the fall of IS7I,:l: only five chairs were filled, one of these, that of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, being held by Chancellor Benton. Though the number of professors was small it was perhaps sufficient for the twenty students. In the catalogue of 1871-2 the college appears under the title of Department of Literature, Science, and Art. ln 1872-3 Prof. S. H. Marly is appointed Dean of the College. ln that year and for some years later four courses are offered, viz.: A Classical, a Greek Scientific, a Latin Scientific, and a Scientihc. The office of Dean is filled now by one and now by another member of the Professor Hitchcock, upon the whole having the greatest tenure of office. Tn In faculty In present in 1903. eighties Tn 1873 the title becomes College of Literature and Science. 1876, the students now numbering some sixty odd, two members are added to the and there are further additions in the following year. 1883-4 Professor Sherman is Dean of the College, which then appears under the name. He holds the office until his appointment as Dean of the Graduate School Many of the men who now occupy chairs in the College entered in the later and the early nineties. ,- the years 1889-95 the college is styled the Academic College with the present des- ignation as a subtitle. But no, title other than the present appears from 1895 on. TN ith the establishment of the Industrial College there is at first a curtailment in the number of courses offered in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Thus in the catalogue of 1889-Q0 two courses only are offered, a Classical and a Literary, Even in 1895 only three. groups of study are mentioned, viz.: the classical, the liter- ary, and the philosophical. But considerable election is allowed in these groups. it The exact date was September 7.

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LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS In the calendar for 18 -08, however, an ears an announcement of twentf 'rou s of 1 . IP 3 8 P stud f two beinG of a General character, the rest characterized b f the orominence of two 3: 5 6 3 1. cognate lines of study that together demandel about one third of the student's time during his four years residence. The difficulty of administering so complicated a scheme led to its- abandonment. In the calendar for 1899-Igoo we read ic ,125 'credit hours' in addition two years of Drill or Physical III1'21lUl110' is re uired for 0'1'2LClU21tiO1l, No credit will be Given for more , as fl a E than o hours work in any de Jartment durinG the underGraduate course and at least 2 4 . l s s . hours of foreiGn 1anGua e work must be com Jletedf' s s g l At the same time, substantially the present scheme of entrance requirements appears. Not till the spring of 1895 was any important modification made in the very liberal raduation rec uirements. It was then that the facult f, b a unanimous vote ado ted the g l 3 Y , P present scheme as Habsolute requirements, required electives, and free electives, ad- ministered under a board of advisors. During the thirty-six years of its existence the College has grown from twenty stu- dents, when it comprised all the University, to over nine hundred, although now it is only a third of the University. ELLERY VV. DAVIS. 1 -at 'r 'if E., A iiiil ' ,Q fi ' V ,. X I , , , k ., I ' . I 5 ' , R I Tl I ITE, I- W... Rx