University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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THE STUDENT UNION-ITS TOWER TALL AND PENSIVE BIONUIYIENT TO SACRIFICE AND GROWTH.

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f S ' 66 77 zghty M 0 Moves Forward HORSES AND BUGGIES, WINDING PATHS, AcADEM1c HALL BUILT AROUND s1x COLUIVINS-THE BEGINNING OF MIS- SOURI .TRADITION.

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W ' 45. r IT WAS A LONG STRUGGLE, BUT MISSOURI ENIERGED, AND COLUIVIBIA BEOAME THE SITE FOR THE KNEW STATE 'U.' i' ln the beginning, there was a hole. It was an extraordinary gap in the ground! How did it get there? Where did it come from? VV ell, it was due to the work of one known as Mo Pioneer. He was a giant of a man, dressed in buckskin britches and coonskin cap who just bounded into Columbia! Mo had already made a name for him- self settling towns and building railroads. Once in Columbia he looked around him, pushed back his furry hat to scratch his head, and said, in a midwest twang, It's time to get things done around here! So he got a shovel and started dig- ging-one hole-this was the start. And, somehow, he couldnit loosen his grip on that handle. His arms worked the shovel again-hard, fast jabs at the earth-the dirt flew up, and soon there were five Mo Pioneer looked at his six holes and said, 'Tm gonna build my- self a college, and he took six columns and dropped one in each hole. There they stood, massive and tall, the beginning of a Yes, Mo Pioneer got things done all right, but he had to go through a lot of red tape to get a building permit. Mo wanted to start his spadework about 1830, when some friends in Washington decided to establish public higher education. But, Missouri mules were run- ning the Legislature, and Mo had to wait until they pulled together. Five years later, in 1835, Mo saw to it that the state received an :if Y Rv- - -- 1 ,X xx w , 'll X A 1 I SI. ' f 4 . ' 'af 1 X Agp' X X 1 T I X XX , R it Ri J WVR r A ii illicit lm ! k ii pm gl I in If! more holes. ' 'I S 2' ' . N fi f I university. , or Q . ! I it J, fl 8 endowment for the founding of a seminary of learning.