University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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ax.....,- - 32.; m 57, '1'; built through the bequest of the late Hon. Rush Strong, to be knowu as ttSo- phronia Strong Hall. ii The addition of the Law Department was effected in 1889 under Supreme Court Judge Thomas J . Freeman of Tennessee, wvho graduated his first seven students in 1891. Throughout many years the department eontined only a two- year course, but in 1913 it became a three-year course, and for the last three years there has been the additional requirement placed upon it of one year of pre-law in the Liberal Arts Department. The school is a member of the American Asso- ciation of Law Schools. The University has been steadily raising its standards for the past fifteen years until it now requires fifteen Carnegie units for entrance. The various departments accepting this as full entrance credit are the Arts, Commerce, Edu- cation, Agricultural, Engineering7 Dental7 Pharmaceutical. Requiring one year of work for college entrance is the law, while two years is required for medical students who take the premedieal courses offered. Every college included is rated as Class A, and belongs to its respective national association, having full standing therein. In 1918 the State Legislature voted their first substantial support to the University, which had, of course, been receiving some aid, but not enough to justify its State-wide scope andinfluence. This was a inillion-dollar bond issue. Which is now being used to improve the Medical College buildings in Memphis, to erect a new Agricultural building at the Farm, and to put up a new main building for classes on the brow of the LtHilI. One wing of this building is to be for class rooms, while the other is to be an auditorium. The Law College is to have a part of this also, although it is now housed temporarily in one of the older ones, South College. The esteem in which the University is held, locally, is evidenced by several occurrences of recent times, the first being the gift from the County of Knox of a large extension of the FarmeCherokee Farmeof approximately five hundred acres; the next being the response from the business men of the city in giving the money needed to construct a large, new athletic field, which is planned to be one of the best in the South, and the two recent gifts to the Agricultural De- partment of $35,000 from the Rush Strong estate and $25,000 from Miss Mary Boiee Temple. The work of the University was carried on under great difficulties during the war, but since the conclusion we have started noteworthy progress in both business and student activities, with the revival of all former glee clubs, dramatics, literary work, publications, and so on, many of these having been dispensed with during the war period. Education in Tennessee used to be of an inferior char- acter, but such great advances have been made in recent years that we can safely predict great things for the future, especially since the levying of a largely in- creased state tax for the benefit of the tUniversity. The University is also strengthened in its hold upon public opinion by its fortunate possession of one of the best educators and most prominent men in the State as its president, Dr. H. A. Morgan, eX-dean of Agriculture, and head of the food administration in Tennessee7 under whom there will undoubtedly continue to be greater advances than ever before on our part, Page T'Irenty-Thrce

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