Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 27]

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23 acres of well selected lands in Minnesota and Nebraska. I t has also endowment funds invested in State and county bonds, amounting to $364,000, besides other property and avails, valued at $33,000. The State has appropriated $25,000 to the Agricultural Department for barns, tools, stock, etc.; $20,000 to the Horticultural Department for green house, barns, drainage, tools, trees, etc.; $25,000 for Mechanical and Military building, machinery, etc.; $75,000 to begin the erection of the main building, which is to cost $150,000; $10,500 to furnish the Chemical Laboratory; and $2§,000 for library and apparatus. Further appropriations have just been made, for which see page 27. LIBEAEY. The Library, which has been carefully selected with reference to the scientific studies required in the several practical courses, includes now about 8,600 volumes. The large Library Hall is fitted up as a readingroom, and is open every day and evening for study, reading and consultation of authorities. I t is well provided with American, English, French and German papers and periodicals, embracing some of the most important scientific and art publications. A list of the periodicals regularly received, will be given in another place in this report. AIMS OF THE UKIVEESITY. " Its leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and* practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."—Act of Congress, 1862, Sec. 4. " The trustees shall have power to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus and conveniences; to fix the rates of tuition; to appoint such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art and other departments and professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies.77—Act of General Assembly, 1867, Sec. 7. In accordance with the two acts above quoted, and under which the University is organized, it holds as its principal aim to offer freely the most thorough instruction which its means will provide, in all the branches of learning useful in the industrial arts, or necessary to "the liberal and practical education of the indttstrial classes, in the several pursuits and professions in life." T It includes in this all useful learning,