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

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y 3 Ol)(i jF ' acultY George I-Ieman Walker, M. D. Adjunct Professor of Anatomy Charles Wii.LiAM Wallace, Ph. D. Associate Professor of English Language and Literature Robert Hart Watson, A. B. Supervisor of Teachers College Train- ing School HuTTON Webster A. B. Stanford; Ph.D. Harvard Professor of Social Antliropologv Henry Peter Weke sser, M. D. Demonstrator in .Anatomy J. Stanley Welch, A K K, A £) A B. Sc. Nebraska ; M. D. Northwestern Instructor in Physio!og ' Clifford Webb Wells, Ph. B. Scholar in Histology and Embryology Max Westermann Assistant Secretary of the Board of Regents Edwin Mead Wilcox, S S B. Sc. Ohio State ; A. M., Ph. D. Harvard Professor of Agricultural Botanv Vernon Vilas Westcate, X7 , ZZ B. Sc, A. M. Nebraska .■ djunct Professor of Horticulture William Penaluna Wherry, M. D. Instructor in Laryngology and Rhinol- ogy, Omaha William Albert Willard Ph. B. Grinnell; A.M. Tufts; Ph.D. Har ' ard Professor of Histolog - and Embrj ' ology Henry H. Wilson, A. M. LL. M. Professor of Law. Robert Henry Wolcott, I A9. P 2 B. Sc, M. D. Michigan .Acting Dean of College of Medicine and Head Professor of Zoology Harry Kirke Wolfe, Ph. D. Head Professor of Philosophy ITalsey E. Yates Captain Seventeenth Infantry, U Professor of Military Science Tactics Mary Virginia Zimmer A. B. Nebraska Instructor in Mathematics A. and : -2 i8

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II Mkej 5= : Judk r. sro? :»:.:-: • - - lO olfp, • IJI t 1 1 UNIVERSITY HALL Ifistor On the 2rst day of March, 1864. Congress passed an act to enable the people of Nebraska to form a constitution and State government, and offered to admit said State, when so formed, intu the Inion. upon compliance with certain con- ditions therein specified. The pioneers were ambitious and the constitution was formed. On February 9, 1867, it was accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the State of Nebraska was declared to be one of the United States of America. The record of proceedings of the Legislature of this new State shows an act approved February 15, 1869, That there shall be established in this Slate an institution uiuler the name and style of The University of Nebraska. ' The object of such institution shall be to afford to the inhabitants of this State, the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts. Thus, in exactly two years and six days after the Territory was admitted to the Union as a State, its people builded for its sons and daughters for all time a great institution which stands as a monument to the energy, enterprise, and J3](C, iiUL E 20