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partment of Home Economics, and a laboratory for this department which is now under construction on the old Rodgers property 0p- posite the main campus, as well as the purchase of additional property for the expansion of the Departments of the University in Memphis. When the Home Economics buildings are completed, the Law De- partment will be moved to Tennessee Hall, two blocks east of the main campus. Carrick Hall has been remodeled 'and is now used by the Department of Civil Engineering. All of the new buildings are of the same type of architecture, and a definite building program which will make the campus of the University of Tennessee one of the most beautiful and best equipped in the South is being carried out step by step as funds become avail- able. The University is endeavoring to serve .the seven interests of the State, Education, Homes, Commerce, Industry, Manufacturing, Ag- riculture, and Government by its threeefold program mapped out by the President, Research, Training of Leaders, and Extension. CV? Page Sixteen
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' WTELM N 117351? year is the centennial of the Universityls establishment in its present location. In recognition of the growth and advancement of the college, its name was changed to East Tennessee University by the legislature in 1840. When the United States under the Morrill Act of 1862 donated the proceeds of the sale of public lands to the state, the en- dowlment was transferred to the University and an Agricultural and Mechanical College was organized in 1869, greatly widening the held of the Universityls work, and making it a University in fact as well as name. Ten years later, in 1889, the name was changed for the last time to The University of Tennessee. From this time on, the Uni- versity has served as the head of the public school system of Tennessee, uthe capstone of the educational arch , with the reputation 'and sup- port of the State of Tennessee behind it. As a result of the million dollar appropriation by the state legis- lature in 1917, Ayres Hall, the new Liberal Arts building, which re- placed on the Hill several smaller buildings including Old College, and Morgan Hall, the equally beautiful Agricultural building, were completed in 1921, as was the new Shields-Watkins Athletic Field. A permanent power plant has also been erected, Which not only sup- plies heat and light to all the buildings now on the campus but also is sufficiently powerful to supply all of the buildings to be erected under the extensive building program to be carried out in the future. Sophronia Strong Hall, a new dormitory for women, including a modern up-to-date cafeteria for all students, located a block west of the campus, was opened in 1925. Another appropriation by the 1925 legislature, made possible the erection of a practice house for the De- Page Fifteen
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