University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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I u 1 Wifi h. ,wi 3 ' I FI 7 -' ' Q ' f fi , 7 3 is l' X ,J If xxx! Xl 6 e fr ,c nl Q.:-wr 'V l 6 , l X I l 1' ff AN ENGLISH LIT. CL XSS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS This was Academic Hall and on july 3, 1843, the roads were crowded with horses and buggies to see the dedication ceremony. VVith Mo's building permit officially signed and sealed, he picked up his shovel in the l84O's. Medical instruction was added in 1845 when 'lMcDowell Medical Collegei' in St. Louis became a department of the University for ten years. Then the influence of Horace Mann and a trend toward schools for the Schoolmastern led to a normal Professorship. With these tasks finished, MO leaned back for a rest. While Mo relaxed, the University began to function. Approximately 80 students enrolled for the early terms. They were offered a variety of courses, though these were actually taught with only five faculty members. Grades were based on a 100-point system with deductions for deficiencies. Students were warned at the 75, 50, and 25 levels, and O meant demotion or dismissal. If the student survived this intricate sys- tem of learning, and the three-day examinations at the end of the term, he graduated. Two did, Robert L. Todd and Robert B. Todd, for the first commencement on November 28, 1843.

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1892 AND ACADEIXIIC HALL LIGHTS UP COLUB'IBIA, NOT WITH EDUCATION, BUT FIRE AND ALL THAT WAS LEFT-sIx COLUBINS AND A NEVV IIXIPETUS TO PROGRESS. But, they were still stubborn in Jefferson City trying to use the money roi prisons And Mo thought he'd never get that building permit. This Pioneer Was a real one, though, and soon he met James S. Rollins. Rollins, Boone County's representative to the Legislature, after hobnobbing With Mo, de- cided to solve this controversy. He introduced a bill providing that a university be located in one of six counties, according to Whichever one made the largest subscrip- tion in land, money, or both. lt passed, and Boone County Won the seat of learning. Taking his cue from Rollins, Henry S. Ceyer, chairman of the House Education Com- mittee, presented the Ceyer Act, calling for the establishment of the University in 1839. NOW Mo sat back and waited to begin, While the first Board of Curators Was organ- ized in Columbia. This group had many difficulties, the main one being financial insolvency. The endowment had to be shared With other institutions, salaries for a faculty had to be obtained, buildings had to be erected. These problems Were par- tially solved in 1841 with the election of john H. Lathrop as first president of the University of Missouri. He arranged for the University to operate through the facil- ities of Columbia College, a private seminary. Because of the use of Columbia Col- lege's faculty, classes began in rather a temporary Way on April 13. Lathrop Went east that summer With 251,000 to purchase scientific equipment. On his return, the 'Collegiate and Preparatory Schools of the University Were fairly launched, and Mo started digging again. ' ' ln 1843 the dirt flew faster. The law finally permitted the organization of a Uni- versity faculty, in place of using that of Columbia College. All transactions now Went through the University, as it had become a legal entity. Mo Bioncer Was given the green light, so he mixed up some mortar and built the first official building around those six columns. 9

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'TYPICAL ROOINI IN THE FIRST VVODIENVS DORIVIITORY THE FOOTBALL STARS OF 1895.