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elirn anii IX ' nut 25 clone. 1 knew the Chancellor once to ask th professtjr of linglish literature to look after the building of a specimen case for one of the scientific departments. There was no telephone on the campus, ncr was there any mail service. There was no football, no basketball, no tennis courts, no athletic board, no gymnasium work, no glee club, no fraternities, no university yell, and yet the old days were not dull. There was fun, plenty of it, and rivalry and contests and occasional bitter feeling, too. just the same as today, and, what is better than pll that, there was a great deal of good hard work by the hoys who are now making good ' in many places in the State and in the Nation. The original charter of the Universit} ' . passed February 15, i8Cv ), provided for six colleges, namely, i, a College of Ancient and Modern Literature, fathe- matics and the Natural Sciences ; 2, a College of Agriculture ; 3, a College of I-aw ; 4, a College of Medicine ; 5, a College of Practical Science, Civil Engineering, and lechanics ; 6, a College of Fine . rts. Eight years later the second and fifth of these colleges were united into the Industrial College, the paragraph being changed so as to read: i. a College of Literature, Science and Art; 3, an Indus- trial College, embracing agriculture, practical science, civil engineering, and me- chanics ; 3, a College of Law; 4, a College of Medicine ; 5, a College, of the Erne Arts. The Regents have fully organized all but the last named, and have added the Graduate School, while very recently they have authorized a College of Education. For fully twenty years a preparatory department was maintained. The first college to open was that of Ancient and iModern Literature. iSIath- ematics, and the Natural Sciences, now called the College of Literature, Science and Art. It swung its doors open September 6, 1871. Coimting those in the preparatory department there were less than one hundred students present at the beginning of the year. The Faculty consisted of the Chancellor and three pro- fessors, who held the chairs of ancient languages, English Titerature. and natural sciences. A little later an instructor in chemistry was provided Who were these pioneers who taught the young Nebraskans of thirty-six years ago, and marked out the pathway over which have traveled hundreds of tutors, instructors, professors of many grades, and doctors of philosopihy ? There was first the scholarly and dignified Chancellor Benton who added the teaching of mental and moral philosophy to his other duties: then came Professor I ' lanley, the first classical teacher: Professor Dake. the teacher of English liteiature: Pro- fessor Aughey. the natural sciences ; while the first chemist was Instructor Dailey. Truly, that was the day of settees, as Oliver Wendell Ffolmes called them, rather than college chairs. The preparatorv department was practically an appendage of this College, and was usually called the Latin School. It received students from the country schools and prepared them for entrance to the College of Literature, Science and Art. It set the standard for the high schools of the State, and was maintained until they were able to do the work of preparing students for college. It laid spe- cial emphasis upon Latin. Greek, and mathematics, and gave an excellent training to its pupils. The hope on the part of University men that the high schools could be taught to do equally good work has been realized in but few places. It is still true that the LTniversity Latin School afforded the best training in secondary school subjects that has ever been reached in Nebraska, and while it was impos-
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