Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Commission of Technical Instruction, provided for under the pre- vious act, was superseded by a board of five regents, to whom the management of the institution was intrusted. Section V, providing for the appointment of a commission of three for the selection of a location for the college and stipulating: First, that none of the com- missioners should be from east of the Cascade mountainsg Second, that the college should be located on or before july 1, 1891, in some county east of the Cascade mountains, and third, that the college should not be located in any county already having a state institu- tion. Sections X and Xl, accepting the land grants of Congress, whereby the college became the benehciary of the 90,000 acres of land for the endowment ofthe Agricultural College, and the 100,000 acres for the endowment of the School of Science. Section IH of this act also reaffirms the intended scope of instruction in the fol- lowing words: The course of instruction of the Agricultural Col- lege and School of Science shall embrace the English language, literature, mathematics, philosophy, civil and mechanical engineering, chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology. the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and politi- cal, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, mechanics, and such other sciences and courses of instruc- tion as shall be prescribed by the regents of this institution of learn- ing. It might be remarked in this connection that the functions of the college and its curriculum are further delined and prescribed by the statutes of the United States. 1 The location commission provided for above consisted of Gov- ernor Black of Everett, A. H. Smith of Tacoma, and S. B. Conover of Port Townsend. The iirst meeting of the Board of Regents was called to order at Olympia by Lieutenant Governor Charles E. Laughton, on April 22, 154511. Governor Laughton, announced that he had ap- proved the bonds and received the oath of office of the following named regents. viz.: Eugene Fellowes, Spokaneg George XV. 19

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Hopp, Sedrog S. B. Conover, Port Townsend, A. H. Smith, Ta- coma, I. H. Bellinger, Colfax. ' B This board effected an organization by the election of S. B. Conover, president, A. H. Smith, treasurer, and Samuel Vinson, clerk. Governor Laughton officially announced to the board that he had received no report from the commission appointed to locate the college. The next meeting was held at Tacoma May 1, 1891. At this meeting Regents Smith and Conover Qwho were members of the locating commissionj, announced that the commission had made the location at Pullman, VVhitman County. That Pullman was favored by receiving this great gift of the state was largely due to the persistent work and efforts of Dr. VVebb, E. H. Letterman, and Thos. Neill. At the meeting abo-ve mentioned, on May 1, Prof. Geo. Lilley was elected president of the college and director of the Experiment Station. The third meeting of the Board of Regents was held in Pull- man May 22, 1891. At this meeting the secretary and treasurer were authorized to enter into a contract for the co-nstructio-n of a brick building at a cost not to exceed 391500. But before the meet- ing had adjourned a restraining order was served upon the board. For some months afterward restraining orders, injunctions, quo warranto proceedings, suits in equity, etc., were quite the order of the day. The legal questions involved were, however, finally settled satisfactorily tothe people of Pullman. The injunction suit which was begunin the Superior Court of Pierce County, with the object of preventing the location of the college at Pullman, was, after a hearing, dismissed by, the Supreme Court in August, 1891. ln De- cember of the same year the plans of Mr. Prusse for a college build- ing, and also for a dormitory. were adopted, and the president was authorized to advertise for bids for the construction of the basement of the main building and for the erection and completion of the dor- mitory. At this same meeting. which was held on December 1. President Lilley was authorized to open the college january 13. 18921 also to purchase furniture and apparatus for the building 2I