University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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faculty— Continued ■% % FRED M. LINSCOTT. Iiistniotoi- in Militnry Seieuce and Tactics Was horn in Des Moines Iowa, Auffiist 7, 1872. He received his early education in the Cedar- ville, California, public school In 1891 he ectered the Nevada State Business CoUefre. In 1892 he en- tered the State University, grad- uating from the School of Agricul- ture in 189ti. In Septeml)er, 1897. he entered the School of Miues, receiving his degree in 1898. In May, 1898, he was commissioned as Captain of the First Nevada Vol- unteer Cavalry and November 6, 1898, was called to the Philippines, where he served for a year with great honor to himself and State. Upon his return to Nevada he was appointed to his present position in the Nevada State University. I I 19

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warn TaCUlty— Continued MISS HANNA?I KEZIAH CLAPP, Librarian. Born in Auburn, N. Y., removed to Michigan, where she was educated by her mother- Later she took a course of study in a semiuaiy at Ypsilanti, Mich., and upon jri-aduation becarre principal of the Model Department of the Mich- igan State Normal School. She crossed the plains in 1859, and soon after her arrival m Cal- ifornia was made preceptress in the Vacaville Academy. Eesigning this position, she came to Carson. Nevada, and established the Sierra Sem- inary, which flourished for twenty-five years. She came to Keno in 1887, and has ever since held a position on the faculty of the Nevada State University. MISS LAURA SMITH, Instructor in Chemistry and Physics. Miss Smith was born at Quincy, California, June 18, 1875. Fnmi ( uincy her aieuts moved to Reno, where she received her early education in the puliiic schools. She graduated fiom the Reno High School in 1892, and entered the Freshman Class at the Nevada State University in Septem- ber of the same year. She graduated with the degree of B.A. in June, 1896. In September, 1896, she was appointed instructor in Chemistry and Physics. HARRY HERBERT DEXTER, Assistant Librarian. Born in Sacramento, Cal- ifornia, in June, 1877. Shortly afterwards his parents moved to Virginia City, Nevada. He graduated from the Virginia High School in 1893 and entered the University of Nevada in Sep- tember, 1898, graduating in 1899 with the degree of B.A. Was appointed to his present position of Assistant Librarian in September of the same year. 18

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Bistory of tbe University of Revada BY ROBERT LEWERS I J-5N 1810, amidst the green mountains of Vermont, a man was .• ' .•t born whose destiny it was to make possible the founding X ' 3 of the universities of agriculture and mechanic arts now ■ ■■ I ' I 3 scattered far and wide throughout our great country, and ' I ' 3 his name — Justin Smith Morrill — will be long revered bv those who know him and his work. Senator Morrill was the author of the Act of Congress of Jvily 2, 1862, which provided for the donation to each State of thirty thousand acres of land for each representative in the national body of lawmakers. By virtue of this Nevada received ninety thousand acres of land, and the money arising from the sale of this land is placed in an irreducible fund known as the University Fund — Ninety Thousand Acre Grant, which now amounts to about $93,000. The principal is invested in United States and Nevada State bonds, and the interest derived from this investment is to be used for the support of the University and is available for instruction only. By the Act of July 4, 1866, Nevada was granted a tract of land equal to seventy-two entire sections for the establishment and main- tenance of a university. The money arising from the sale of these lands is placed in an irreducible fund known as the State Univer- sity Fund, and amounts at present to about $36,000, invested principally in Nevada State 4 per cent bonds. The income arising from both of the investments amounts to $6,500 yearly, the exce. ' s above the 4 per cent being derived from interest on deferred land payments. Probably 80 per cent of all the land has been .sold. As a further evidence of the great value of Senator Morrill ' s services to the universities we have but to chronicle the fact that he was the author of the Act of Congress of August 30, 1890, appro- priating the sum of $15,000 for the year ending July, 1890, for the more complete endowment of each agricultural and mechanical college, said sum to be increased at the rate of $1,000 a year until it reached the maximum of $25,000 per year. The income from this source is limited solely to purposes of instruction. In the Constitutional Convention of 1864 a very considerable portion of the time was de- mi.mm, i.ru.i.i.v., voted to the discussion of educational matters, and especial interest was taken in the establishment of a School of Mines and Mechanical 20