Annual Register, Volumes 1883-1886

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1884

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Page 73 - The University of Michigan." ohject*< Sec. 2. The objects of the university shall be to provide the inhabitants of the state with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and the arts.
Page 73 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 73 - ... the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the state may provide, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 18 - An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Page 111 - An act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of Minnesota, an additional and entirely separate function has been imposed upon the Faculty of this College.
Page 17 - The location of the University of Minnesota, as established by existing laws, is hereby confirmed, and said institution is hereby declared to be the University of the State of Minnesota. All the rights, immunities, franchises and endowments heretofore granted or conferred are hereby perpetuated unto the said university; and all lands which may be granted hereafter by Congress, or other donations for said university purposes, shall vest in the institution referred to in this section.
Page 74 - There shall be established in the University of Minnesota five or more colleges or departments — that is to say, a department of elementary instruction; a college of science, literature, and the arts: a college of agriculture, including military tactics...
Page 32 - The law creating this survey is comprehensive. It embraces not only a strictly geological survey, including a complete account of the rocks and minerals of the State and their chemical analysis, but also a natural history survey, comprising an examination of all species of trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses (native or naturalized), and a complete account of the animal kingdom, as represented in the State, including all mammalia, fishes, reptiles, birds, and insects.
Page 74 - An act donating land to the several states and territories, which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture, and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 19 - BUILDINGS. The general plan of the buildings contemplates a central academic building, and grouped around it, additional structures for the separate departments or colleges. The Legislature of 1881 appropriated the sum of $30,000 a year for six years for the erection and outfit of the following additional buildings: A farm-house, a building for the College of Mechanic Arts, a military building, an astronomical observatory, a museum and a library.

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