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SUMMER SESSION 



Twelve-Weeks Summer School devoted to both collegiate and non-collegiate 

 courses. Work for regular students, high school teachers, superintendents, 

 rural and grade teachers. Write the Director of Summer 'School, or the 

 Registrar, for special announcement regarding the courses offered. 



GENERAL INFORMATION 



The Iowa State College of Agriculture* and Mechanic Arts was established 

 in 1858 by an act of the legislature of Iowa. The college domain was pur- 

 chased in 1859. In 1862 the legislature accepted the federal land grant act 

 approved in that year by President Lincoln. This act includes the require- 

 ment that "where the 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 mechanic arts, in such 

 manner as the legislature 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." The college was formally 

 opened on the seventeenth day of March, 1869. 



Acres in College Domain 1,342 



Acres in Campus 125 



Trees on Central Campus 2,500 



Varieties of Trees 120 



College Buildings 50 



Volumes in Library 55,000 



College Property $3,763,402.08 



Zoological Museum 15,000 



Agricultural Equipment ..$140,000.00 

 Home Economics Equipm't 13,000.00 

 Industrial Science 



Equipment 110,000.00 



Engineering Equipment . . .114,000.00 

 Veterinary Equipment . . . 32,000.00 



Botanical Museum 4,500.00 



Departments Maintained 52 



A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE CAMPUS FROM THE EAST. 



