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BEGINNINGS OP THE UNIVERSITY

cessful agents, and managers of commercial enterprises, gave brief promise of becoming the first University department of its kind in the country. I t was to include all branches casting light on the phenomena of business and traffic, upon the laws of production, exchange, markets, and currency, and upon the history, law, and usages of commerce, domestic and foreign. But the time was not ripe and by 1875, when Fernando Parsons took charge of the school, signs were plain that it could be little more than a weak analogue of the modern cheap business college. Three terms only were given, two of which were in bookkeeping. Later a course in "actual business" was instituted, and the student was required to furnish $2,000 in college currency with which to carry on his enterprises, depositing a tiny fraction in real money to get a genuine sense of gain or loss.|pL commercial bank having been equipped, in a few years it was possible to reproduce a large number of business situations, while there were courses in penmanship, commercial calculation, and law. Yet the work of the school could be comprised in two years, most students took but one, and in 1879-80 the Trustees thought so little of the whole as to discontinue it. The school of domestic science had a career as brief, but far more creditable!! Half a dozen years after the University opened Miss Louise Allettlcame to it with previous educational experience, and spenfithe fall of 1874 in preparing the program of what, as she claimed in a special report to the Bureau of Education was the first college course of high grade in domestic | | | | | B organized in this country. j | t in^uded 9 H B H g | | | of the dwelling-house j the principles of # y s i o l o » ^ ^ | hygiene; the nature, uses, preservationigand pfipara-