University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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-, .. ..,-v iw' - V i - .V For fifty year: the old academic hall wa: the center of all Unioerfity life. In I842 the column: were erected by mean: of ash-log tripodf, pnlleyx, and oxen. In 1892, after being partially deftroyed by fire, the old wall: were still so strong that they could be razed only by dynamite blasting. E HUNDRED YEARS The story of the growth of the Univer- sity of Missouri is built around the lives of courageous men, men of vision who strug- gled unselfishly with dogged determination to promote its advancement. It is a story, moreover, illuminated by splendid and un- Page9 impeded progress and checkered with dark periods which saw stagnation and retro- gression. Yet, withal, it is a story which commands untempered respect for the in- stitution and prophesies for it a glorious future. I

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In 1787 Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, the sine qua non of the Ameri- can system of government-fostered educa- tion. It proclaimed that schools and the means of education should forever be en- couraged. In 1820, pursuant to this de- cree, the government granted two town- ships of land in Jackson County to the new State of Missouri for the use of a seminary of learningfl The money eventually real- ized by the sale of this land could rightfully be called the original endowment of the University. By 1839 it amounted to 3100,- ooo. The State of Missouri, incidentally, did not contribute a cent to the support of O Carrying the news of the Boone County victory from Jejerson City back to Columbia. The citizens, after hearing their bid was highest put on a tremen- dous celebration. 1-T' -L? .- .-..-...., .Q ' v rx :... rug- ' x H lip. V. -z. 4:1 . J' 1 .nz- , X . K N , V - 1 - N 'i'.....-. '.i f g A ' l -75.-,1 . , , p -.: t-3 - ,T ' T at E it-' 1 r .i , V- X Nl. X V - T53 .5 gpgzezs 2... I 'ADT xx :zz W qvggg lg, , .is ...E-1. ',,f ' . f ll. ,,- ff ..l..- ,,....-. ..,.-. ...- 1 l l l w l the University until it was twenty-eight years old. The University was actually created by the Geyer Act, which was passed by the state legislature on February II, 1839. It was this establishing act, incidentally, which gives Missouri her title of the oldest state university west of the Mississippi. The next four months witnessed a hotly- contested struggle over the location of the Page I0