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monwealth. For fifteen years—until 1886 when the first chemical laboratory was ready for use—the old central building on the city campus—in recent years known as "University Hall"—was the sole domicile of the University of Nebraska. In popular phrase it was "The University." Of a truth that modest structure deserves the respect, the reverence, of the people of the state, as it has the honor and love of the men and women—many builders of the commonwealth—who caught inspiration within its walls. What those two ancient Halls at her campus gate are to Harvard, the venerable University Hall should be to our own institution. Let it not be touched by any destroying hand. Let it stand as long as nature may suffer it to endure as monument to the courageous souls who with slender means during lean years and perilous crises laid the spiritual foundations of Nebraska's chief temple of learning. In the little rooms of that old structure were fostered into vigorous life many of the "departments" which now find their homes each in a separate building or even in several buildings; while some of those departments have expanded into "schools" and "colleges." Thus, for a decade and a half, chemistry found a home in 104, the little northeast room on the first floor. Physics, under Professor Collier, was housed in 102 and 103 just opposite. At a later time rooms 103 and 104 became the cradle of the college of Engineering; for there, in the eighties, Professor C. N. Little developed a vigorous department of Civil Engineering, one of whose early products was Dean Stout, now head of the college. History, the first of the social sciences to be organized, got its start in 204, the northeast corner room on the second floor; while in 205, the adjacent room, the office and the collections of the State Historical Society were sheltered for six years, 1885-1891. In that same tiny, ill-lighted cubicle, in 1889-1891, Dr. Amos G. Warner, Professor Howard W. Caldwell, and the writer organized a joint seminar of history and economics; the first graduate seminar to be founded in the University of Nebraska. The genesis of the department of philosophy took place in room 112 on the first floor; and this same room, for may years
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