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Grummann as director, an important section of the work of the University. Art and music are taught in their history, theory, and practice, with a regular four years' course, so that degrees are granted to its students on the same basis as to the students of the colleges.
The work in commerce and accounting developed under Professor J. E. LeRossignol was given definite standing as a school in 1913, with Professor LeRossignol as its director. Under the new social and educational conditions its work promises to develop and become more and more important, as the years go on. The school of commerce has just been elevated by the regents to a college, as this anniversary book goes to press.
There are, under the control of the board of regents, two schools of preparatory rank, one at the Farm rod one at Curtis, both devoted to the teaching of agricultural subjects.
H. W. CADWELL.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
The commissioners who located and laid out the capital city and set aside four blocks for the University campus, must have selected the location of these four blocks when blindfolded. No good angel whispered to them of seats of learning set upon the hills. The gentle slopes of the Antelope valley were ignored, and a site bordering on Salt Creek valley and inevitably in the path of railroads, then imminent, was chosen. Next, with money derived from the sale of lots in the new capital city, the commission proceeded to erect a building. The methods of contractors and official boards were genuinely American, however. The legislature had appropriated $100,000 for the erection of a building. In June, 1869, seemingly in anticipation of a contract, R. D. Silver arrived in Lincoln to establish a brickyard, and on August 18, following, his foresight was justified by the award of the contract for the University building for $128,480. Troubles arose very soon afterwards, and their
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