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HE Toledo Critic recently published an able article on the Ohio State University, which is here reprinted as a valuable and comprehensive contribution to this work. The article in part is as follows:

In 1878 the legislature passed "An act to reorganize and change the name of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and to repeal certain acts therein mentioned." The act provided that the institution should be thereafter designated as "The Ohio State University." Up to this time but one appropriation had been made by the State for the support of the institution. With the reorganization came the larger and broader view of the State's relation to public education, and since that time the Ohio State University has shared with other public educational institutions a more generous support by the State.

The governing body of the institution is a Board of Trustees, appointed by the Governor of the State and confirmed by the Senate, for terms of seven years, as provided in the law organizing the University. The original endowment has been supplemented, and the objects of the University promoted, by a permanent annual grant from the United States, under an act of 1890, by special appro priations of the General Assembly; and in 1891, by a permanent annual grant from the State, which grant was doubled by the legislature of 1896. In accordance with the spirit of the law under which it is organized, the University aims to furnish ample facilities for education in the liberal and industrial arts, the sciences and the languages, and for thorough technical and professional study of agriculture, engineering in its various departments, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and law. Through the aid which has been received from the United States and from the State, it is enabled to offer its privileges, with a slight charge for incidental expenses, to all persons of either sex who are qualified for admission.

The University is situated within the corporate limits of the city of Columbus, two miles north of the Union Depot, and about three miles from the State Capitol. The University grounds consist of three hundred and forty-five acres, bounded east and west by High street, and the Olentangy river, respectively. The western portion, about 235 acres, is devoted to agricultural and horticultural purposes, and is under the management of the College of Agriculture and Domestic Science. The eastern portion is occupied by the principal University buildings, campus, athletic and drill grounds, a park-like meadow, and a few acres of primitive forest.

The grounds are laid out with care, ornamented with trees, shrubs and flower beds; and are so managed as to illustrate the instruction in Botany, Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape Gardening and Floriculture.

The University has thirteen buildings devoted to instruction, one Boiler House, one Power House, two Dormitories, six residences, and some farm buildings. These buildings represent an investment for construction of about eight hundred thousand dollars. The equipment and apparatus amount to about one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. The land now occupied as a site with the farm is valued at one million five hundred thousand dollars.

The Ohio State University is divided into six colleges, as follows: (1.) The College of Agriculture and Domestic Science consists of those departments represented in the course leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and Forestry, and Bachelor of Science in Domestic Economy, and in the Course in Dairying.

(2.) The College of Arts, Philosophy and Science consists of those departments represented in the courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Philosophy, and Bachelor of Science; and in the Courses Preparatory to Law and to Journalism.

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(3.) The College of Engineering consists of those departments represented in the courses leading to the degrees of Civil Engineer, Engineer of Mines, Engineer of Mines in Ceramics, Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer in Electrical Engineering, and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Arts, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry or in Metallurgy; in the Course in Architecture, in the Short Course in Clay-Working and Ceramics, and in the Short Course in Mining.. (4.) The College of Law consists of those departments represented in the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Laws.

(5.) The College of Pharmacy consists of those departments represented ni the courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, and in. the Short Course in Pharmacy.

(6.) The College of Veterinary Medicine consists of those departments represented in the course leading to the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and to a certificate of Veterinary Surgeon.

Each college is under the direction of its own Faculty, which has power to act in all matters pertaining to the work of students in that college.

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THE OHIO UNIVERSITY (ATHENS).

HE history of the Ohio University antedates that of the State nearly two decades. The ordinance providing for its existence and support was passed in Jul, 1787, in the city of Philadelphia. The leading spirit in the movement was Manasseh Cutler, a native of Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale of the class of 1765. In accordance with the spirit of his time he proposed to endow an institution for higher education with a grant of land. As there was a superabundance of land and as the country was pretty sure to fill up rapidly, such an endowment was supposed to be the most stable and almost sure to increase greatly in value. The history of many land grants for education shows, however, that while the expectation of increase in value has realized, the increase rarely accrued to the pecuniary advantage of the beneficiary. To this general statement the Ohio University forms no exception.

Among the ordinances enacted for the Northwest Territory, there was one providing that "no more than two complete townships should be given perpetually for the purpose of a University, to be laid off by the purchaser or purchasers as near the center as may be (so that the same shall be of good land), to be applied to the intended object by the Legislature of the State." In 1795 the lands to be devoted to the support of the University were located. The townships were numbers eight and nine in the fourteenth range, now Athens and Alexander in Athens county. The first families removed to them in 1797, and settled near the present site of the town of Athens, the seat of the University. Two years later the Territorial Legislature appointed three commissioners "to lay off in the most suitable place within the township, a town plat, which should contain a square for the college; also, lots suitable for house-lots and gardens for a president, professors, tutors, etc., bordering on, or encircled by spacious commons, and such a number of town lots adjoining the said commons and out-lots as they think will be for the advantage of the University."

In the same year Dr. Cutler sent his draft of an act of incorporation for the University. In this draft he said among other things, "Forty or fifty thousand dollars cannot be too high, as it must be applied to one of the most useful and important purposes to society and government." Passing over some intermediate legislation, we find that the General Assembly of the new State that had just been admitted into the Union, passed, in 1804, an act of which Section I gave to the institution its present name, the Ohio University, and defined its object to be, "the instruction of youth in all the various branches of liberal arts and sciences, the promotion of good education, virtue, religion and morality, and the conferring of all.