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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 83 foundations of the University deep and strong. He exercised the strongest personal influence upon the student body. Women were first admitted to the University in 1870. The story is told that when the members of the Board of Trustees were deliberating over the matter in a room in the old dormitory, a group of students, much interested in the outcome were gathered in a room above listening through a friendly stovepipe hole to the discussion going on below. When the vote was finally taken, and was announced as favorable to the young women, an approving shout was heard from the gallant fellows above. The young women have ever since been thus kindly received. Twenty-two women registered the first year. In January, 1870, a mechanical shop was fitted up with tools and machinery, and here was begun the first shop instruction given in any American university. The same year a system of student government was adopted which for a time seemed to work admirably. Politics soon crept in, however, and perverted justice, and the system was in 1883 abandoned. In 1871 a bill was passed by the Legislature appropriating $75,000.00 for a building to cost not less than $150,000.00, and providing that $75,000.00 additional be appropriated at the next meeting. University I Ia.ll was begun, but the Legislature did not make the expected additional appropriation; and the building had to be completed with money taken from other University funds. A dark line may still be seen on the walls of this building where the bricks were stained from exposure during the delay necessitated while waiting for funds. The first publication by the students of the University app ired in November, 1K70. It was called the Student Hid w; published inonthl Two years following the name was changed to the IHint, by which name the Universit laily is 'ill Known. In [H77 the University was hist ^iveu I ion by th Legislature t > y,\ .\\\\ d< < s. IVeviou his tun Iii.it* 1 of :,|). ii I com had siiuplj heen RI\ \ r» a atei indicating thai tin of study. had atisfaei lj mple( 1 outlined COui
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