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

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f 3 GRANT MEMORIAL HALL when tlu anmial income of the University fund shall have reached $i(X),000. In- struction in art was first formally offered in 1S85-1886. In conformity to this law, the Regents, on February 7, 1871, resolved to open the first department of the University in the fall, and on April 4 they selected a corps of competent and experienced professors and fixed the time of opening Thursday, September 7, 1871. In order to increase the usefulness of the University, and to provide instruc- tion by a tutor, a Latin School was organized as a preparatory department in which students not fully qualified for the college classes might receive instruction. This preparatory department was abolished in 1898. The new constitution of 1875 recognized the University thus established, placed it under the general control of an elective board of six regents, and made certain provisions as to its organization and administration. The College of Ancient and Modern Literature, Mathematics, and the Natural Sciences became the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, later the College of the Arts and Sciences, while the College of Agriculture and the College of Practical Science, Civil Engineering, and Mechanics were merged into the Industrial College. The Industrial College ceased to exist, as such, by legislative act of 1909, when a general reorganization of colleges and schools of the University was effected as :i ii c M 22

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x:: NEBRASKA HALL foresight of men and women who began with courage as their chief stock in trade. By this act the general government of the University was vested in a Board of Regents, which consisted of the Governor, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Chancellor of the University, all of whom were members by virtue of their offices, and three persons from each of the three judicial districts. The nine members thus provided for by the Legislature were divided into three classes, bv lot, one person from each district being chosen for each class, and their terms of office were for the first class two years (dating from the first day of March, 1869), for the second class four years and for the third class six years. Their first terms and their terms afterwards to be for six years each. The first members of the Board were appointed by the Governor. This act further provided that the University consist of six departments or colleges, as follows: First, a College of Ancient and Modern Literature. Mathematics, and the Natural Sciences, Second, a College of Agriculture, Third, a College of Law, Fourth, a College of Medicine, Fifth, a College of Practical Science, Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Sixth, a College of Fine Arts. A provision was made that the college of Fine Arts shall be established only

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CHEMISTRY HALL may be seen bv the table herein showing the distribution of the number of students enrolled in 1909-1910. The next Legislature (1877) revised the act of 1S69 in accordance with the provisions of the new constitution. By an amendment of 1899 of the original act of 1869 a tax of one mill upon the grand assessment roll of the State is provided for the support of the Uni- versity. Added to this are the incomes from land (90,000 acres), leases and sales under the land-grant act of Congress of 1862 for the benefit of the In- dustrial College (erected in 1909 into the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineer- ing by the State Legislature), and under the enabling act reserving seventy-two sections of land (44,800 acres) for the State University ; interest on permanent fund investments ; and the money grant by the act of Congress, commonly known as the Morrill Act, August, 1890, and by the Hatch Fund Act of 1887. and the Adams Act of 1906 supplemental thereto. In addition to this are the fees paid by students for various purposes. Under the revised act of 1877, as slightly amended by the Legislature of 1909, the University of today is organized and operating. Its present annual cost of maintenance is S713.632.50, and from the old Uni- versity Hall erected in 1870, which still proudly commands from the center of the group on the city campus, the University has materially increased until it now numbers over twenty-five buildings exclusively used for purposes of in- 23