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Doubtless the foundation had been laid for real progress, but the word university can hardly be used for the institution before that date, and it was not until after 1908 that the full organization of all colleges was made.
Though the largest attendance during these years—1877-1908—was in the college of literature, science and the arts, yet the enrollment in the industrial college was relatively large. All the teaching, however, except in certain phases of agriculture, took place on the city campus and not at the Farm; and as a rule a large proportion of the students of the two colleges were in the same classes. These facts led many to hold that the real attendance in the college of agriculture was very slight, and hence that a reorganization ought to be made. This was effected, and since 1909 a remarkable growth and development in the agricultural departments have taken place. The agricultural college was clearly defined, and its students were taught at the Farm by professors and instructors of agriculture. The field was made very broad and included full four-year courses in many branches, all calculated to give preparation for practicing or teaching in matters connected with farm work or home industrial life. The college now had as its head a dean of agriculture, A. E. Burnett, an able man of exceptional merit and great organizing capacity.
The medical college was opened in 1883, and remained an organized college until 1888, when it was closed, in part on account of expense and in part on account of state criticism. In 1902 the medical college was revived under the deanship of Professor H. B. Ward. Under the new arrangement the first two years of the medical course were pursued in the laboratories at Lincoln and the last two in the clinical courses of the Omaha Medical College. In 1913 the whole medical college was removed to Omaha to take advantage of the better hospital facilities of the larger city. At this move, the Omaha Medical College was absorbed and reorganized by the University itself. The medical course at present involves a six-years' curriculum of which the first two, or pre-medical years, are pursued at Lincoln
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