Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . l improvement, by establishing a uniform system of commonschools and schools of higher grade, embracing normal, preparatory, col-legiate and university departments. Carrying out the spirit and letter ofthis section, the Kansas people have established three great schools. The University of Kansas, situated at Lawrence. The State Normal School, at Emporia. The State Agricultural College, at Manhattan. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. In the act admitting Kans
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . l improvement, by establishing a uniform system of commonschools and schools of higher grade, embracing normal, preparatory, col-legiate and university departments. Carrying out the spirit and letter ofthis section, the Kansas people have established three great schools. The University of Kansas, situated at Lawrence. The State Normal School, at Emporia. The State Agricultural College, at Manhattan. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. In the act admitting Kansas into the Union, it is provided that seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and sup-port of a State University, to be selected by the Governor of said State,subject to the approval of the general land office, and to be appropriatedand applied in such manner as the Legislature of said State may pre-scribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose. The Univer-sity buildings occupy the summit of Mt, Oread, concerning which thewords of the Psalmist could be fittingly used, Mount Zion stands most 29. Ill If 30 KANSAS. beautiful, the joy of all the land.* From the doors of the main build-ing can be obtained one of the loveliest and most significant views in theland. For there, spread out before one, are hill and dale, fields andorchards, streams and woods, church spires and schoolhouse brief, all the evidences of a Christian civilization, and all wrestedfrom the wilderness of Nature and the savagery of man during the lastairty-five years. The University first occupied the building now known as NorthJoUege, and at present given up to the School of Fine Arts. Thisbuilding was erected in 1866. In 1874 the main building was that time one building after another has been erected, until nowseven buildings are in constant use, and one more is in course of erec-tion. The latter, the Fowler Machine Shops, will be complete
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