Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1899-1900 [PAGE 30]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

the purpose of establishing and maintaining, in connection with the colleges founded upon the congressional act of 1862, agricultural experiment stations, "to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science." Under this provision the Agricultural Experiment Station for Illinois was placed under the direction of the Trustees of the University, and a part of the University farm, with buildings, was assigned for its use. At least one bulletin of results is published every three months, and the copies are gratuitously distributed over the state. Editions of 18,000 copies are now issued. For the more complete endowment of the state institutions founded upon the act of 1862, the congress of the United States, by a supplementary law passed in 1890, made further appropriations. Under this enactment each such college or university received the first year $15,000, the second $16,000, and thereafter was to receive $1,000 per annum additional to the amount of the preceding year, until the amount reached $25,000, which sum was to be paid yearly thereafter. The Chicago College of Pharmacy, founded in 1859, became the School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois May 1, 1896. Its rooms are at 465 State Street, Chicago. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University held Dec. 8, 1896, upon recommendation of President Draper, the Trustees voted to take steps looking to the organization of a law school. Appropriations were made for salaries, for the purchase of books, and for incidental expenses. Pursuant to this action of the Board of Trustees, the School of Law was organized during the following spring and summer, and was opened Sept. 13, 1897. The course as originally planned covered two years, conforming to the existing requirements for admission to the bar in Illinois. The supreme court of the state, however, announced