DEVELOPMENT. 11
g 1904. Patterson Hall, the Young Women’s College Home,
1 completed.
- 1904. Fifteen thousand dollars per annum appropriated by the
) General Assembly to defray the expenses of the College.
1905. The New Experiment Station completed.
. 1906. The Department of Household Economy added.
5 1907. The building for the Department of Education erected.
The erection of the Carnegie Library Building and of Agricultural
Hall begun. The Academic (preparatory) Course extended to three
years. Forty acres added to the Experiment Farm, making 243 acres
[ in all. The Mining Laboratory and the Observatory erected.
; 1908. Name changed from Agricultural and Mechanical College
, to State University. The College of Law established. Two hundred
L thousand dollars appropriated by the General Assembly for buildings
; and twenty thousand dollars for additional annual income. Library
, and Agricultural Hall completed.
Increase of Pr0perty.——·The property of the University is estimated
to be worth $800,000 more than it was in 1880.
Increase of C0urses.—Before 1880 the University offered a single
course of study leading to a degree; it now offers seven.
Increase of Teachers.·-Before 1880 the University had six Professors;
it now has seventeen Professors and thirty-seven assistants.
Increase of Students.—The number in 1898-99 was 480, the largest
till then in the history of the University; in 1903-1904 it was 732; in 1906-
1907 it was 901.
Increase of Graduates.-—No fact more distinctly marks the growth
of the University than the increase in the number of its graduates.
More students have been graduated during the last three years than
were graduated during the first thirty.