GENERAL INFORMATION.

Historical Statement:

The legislative act establishing the public school system was approved February 9, 1839, and that establishing the University was approved February 11, 1839. This is considered the date of the foundation of the University.

The University was located at Columbia, Boone county, June 24, 1839. The cornerstone of the main building was laid July 4, 1840. Courses of instruction in Academic work were begun on April 14, 1841. A Normal Department was established in 1867, and was opened in September, 1868. In 1869 women were admitted first to the Normal Department, in 1870 to the Academic Department, and soon after to all Departments. The College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and the School of Mines and Metallurgy were made Departments of the University in 1870-the School of Mines and Metallurgy being located at Rolla, where it was formally opened November 23, 1871. The Law Department was opened in 1872; the Medical Department in 1873; and the Engineering Department in 1877. The Experiment Station was established, under act of Congress, in 1888. The Missouri State Military School was created a Department of the University in 1890. In June, 1896, the Graduate Department was established by the Board of Curators. In 1867 the State gave aid for the first time to the University-a sum of $10,000. On January 9, 1892, the Main Building of the University at Columbia was destroyed by fire. In the following March, the Legislature gave for buildings and equipment $236,577. In March, 1893, this fund was increased by a second appropriation of $264,000, and by $25,000 additional for a new building at Rolla. The Thirty-ninth General Assembly appropriated $33,000 to build an additional club house at Columbia, and the Fortieth erected a hospital. The Forty-first General Assembly gave for buildings at Columbia $195,000, and for the same purpose at Rolla, $87,000. The Forty-second General Assembly, in addition to appropriations for maintenance, has

appropriated $184,200 for buildings and $152,000 for equipment and improvements at Columbia, and for equipment and improvements at Rolla, $108,000.

On account of the failure of the collateral inheritance tax, however, only $199,898.99 of the amount appropriated for buildings and for equipment and improvements at Columbia was paid; and of the amount appropriated for equipment and improvements at Rolla, $50,788.14 was paid. The Forty-third General Assembly, in addition to appropriations for maintenance, appropriated for buildings at Columbia $70,000, and for equipment and other special purposes, $159,000. For a building at Rolla $20,000 was appropriated, and for equipment and other special purposes, $63,000.

For more detailed statements concerning the various Departments, see their special announcements in this Catalogue.

A. THE DEPARTMENTS AT COLUMBIA.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

The following are the requirements for admission to the various Departments:

Graduate Department:

Graduates of either sex of the colleges and universities comprising the Missouri College Union and of other reputable colleges and universities, and (in exceptional cases, by special permission of the Faculty) other persons of liberal education, are admitted to such graduate work as they are prepared for. See announcement of this Department, page 98.

Academic Department and Teachers College:

Fifteen (15) units are required for admission to these Departments, but a condition will be allowed on three (3) of these units temporarily. Department of Law:

Thirteen (13) units without condition are required for admission to the Department of Law for the session 1906-07. For entrance requirements for 1907-08 and thereafter, see special announcement of Law Department.

Department of Medicine:

Beginning with June, 1906, the candidate for entrance to the Medical Department must present college work as follows: English, six (6) hours; German, six (6) hours; General Zoology, six (6) hours; General Physics, six (6) hours; Inorganic Chemistry, six (6) hours. He must also satisfy the entrance requirements specified for the Academic Department.

The School of Agriculture:

Fifteen units are required for admission to this School, but a condition will be allowed on three (3) of these units temporarily. In preparation for admission to the School of Agriculture, students are strongly urged to take at least one laboratory science; if only one science is taken, it is recommended that it be Physics.

The School of Engineering:

Fifteen units are required for admission to the School of Engineering, with two (2) conditions in any of the subjects accepted for admission excepting English and Mathematics. Three (3) units in English, one and one-half (12) units in Algebra, one (1) unit in Plane Geometry, two (2) units in foreign language, and one (1) unit in science will be fixed requirements or "constants." It is strongly recommended that students present two (2) units in French or German to meet the requirements of two units in foreign language.

NOTE: In 1907-08 one-half (%) unit in Solid Geometry will be a fixed requirement in Engineering. The courses in Engineering require that students be strong in mathematics and science. Those who are not strong in these lines are advised not to undertake work in Engineering.

NOTE: Students from accredited schools will not be admitted, subject to a condition, unless they are graduates of such schools. This applies to all Departments of the University.

Subjects:

The subjects in which these units may be offered, the minimum and the maximum number of units that may be offered, in each subject, and the number of units required in certain subjects for each Department, are presented in the table given below:

*In the Academic Department and the Department of Law, Manual Training may not be offered.

+Agriculture is accepted for entrance to the School of Agriculture and to the Teachers College only.

DEFINITION OF UNITS IN THE SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

English. The four units that may be offered in English are as follows:

I. Literature two periods, Grammar two periods, Composition one period a week for one year.

2. Literature three periods, Rhetoric and Composition two periods a week for one year.

3. Literature two periods, Rhetoric and Composition three periods a week for one year. The Literature of the first three years should include the masterpieces recommended for college entrance in the North Central States. The masterpieces recommended are:

For general reading: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar; The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers in The Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe; Carlyle's Essay on Burns; Tennyson's The Princess; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; George Eliot's Silas Marner.

For minute and critical study: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison.

4. For the fourth unit the candidate may offer either: Literature. A year's work in English or American literature in addition to that described under 3; or

History of the Language. A year's work in the history of the language (Lounsbury's or an equivalent text); or

each.

Literature and History of the Language. Half a year's work in

Mathematics. The four units which may be offered in Mathematics are as follows:

Algebra. One unit. Elementary Algebra, including the elementary operations, solution of single and simultaneous linear equations, factoring, radicals, exponents (both integral and fractional), and the solution of numerical quadratic equations.

One and one-half units. Complete elements of Algebra, including the above, and in addition, solution of simultaneous quadratics, of higher equations solved as quadratics, of problems whose solution depends upon quadratics; the formation of equations with given roots; the binomial theorem for positive integral exponents; logarithms, including the theory and the practical use of logarithms; and ratio and proportion. For more detailed outline see the report of the committee of the American Mathematical Society, Bulletin, November, 1903; and