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university of ciiieiiinati The University of Cincinnati is a symbol of the intermingling of pioneer spirit with Old World culture in the western move- ment of our nation. The history of our University is a part of the story of the West. The determination of the people to create new areas of civilization from undeveloped lands, to mold a crude society into the pattern of more cultured life, is expressed in the development of the University from the hopes of the citizens of Cincinnati in 1805 to this center of education for a metropolitan area nearly a century and a half later. The University has its roots in the democratic tradition, for it was a citizens ' report of May, 1805, which first proposed the establishment of a college in this city. The direct result of this report, Cincinnati University, incorporated in 1807, lasted only two years; but the dream of the pioneers remained to bring about the subscription of forty citizens to the fund which enabled Cincinnati College to be chartered in 1819. In a building located on what is now Walnut Street, north of Fourth, some sixty students, all men, studied a classical cur- riculum which included required courses in Latin, Greek, arithmetic, and, for the junior and senior years, Belles- Lettres, moral philosophy, and English composition. This was the beginning of the tradition of higher education in the Queen City; Cincinnati College, not without temporary fail- ures, developed into a center of the cultural growth of the West. The democratic foundations of higher education in Cincin- nati were strengthened in 1870, the dote of the founding of the University of Cincinnati. The establishment of a university as provided by the will of Charles McMicken, in 1858, could not be accomplished, but civic sentiment was crystallized by the preparation of a legislative bill by the City Council, trustee of the McMicken Fund, to permit the aid and promotion of education, and consolidation of McMicken University, Cincin- nati College, the Cincinnati Astronomical Society, and other educational units. The Ohio Legislature passed this bill, the earliest municipal university statute in the nation, and City Council in December of 1870 elected the first Board of Directors of the University of Cincinnati. Much has been accomplished by the application of the spirit of the pioneers to the search for knowledge. More than a University has been built; a tradition of cooperation of free people in service to future generations has been created and continued. That is the cultural heritage of the graduates of this University.This book is the record of another year of the success of that heritage. Page 3
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