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See also:WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF , a co-educational institution of higher learning at See also:Madison, Wisconsin, the See also:capital of the See also:state, established in 1848 under state See also:control, supported largely by the state, and a See also:part of the state educational See also:system. The university occupies a picturesque and beautiful site on an irregular See also:tract (600 acres), including both wooded hills and undulating meadow lands stretching for 1 m. along the shores of See also:Lake Mendota. The See also:main See also:building, University See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (1859; enlarged 1897–1899 and 1905–1906), which crowns University See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, is exactly 1 m. from the state capitol. The other buildings include See also:North Hall (185o), See also:South Hall (1854), See also:Science Hall (1887), the See also:Biology Building (1911), the Chemical Building (1904–1905), the See also:Hydraulic Laboratory (1905), the See also:Engineering Building (1900), the See also:Law School (1894), Chadbourne Hall (1870; remodelled in '896) for See also:women, See also:Lathrop Hall (1910) for women, See also:Assembly Hall (1879), the Chemical Engineering Building (1885), See also:Machine Shops (1885), the armoury and gymnasium (1894), a See also:group of See also:half a dozen buildings belonging to the See also:College of See also:Agriculture and the See also:Washburn See also:Observatory (1878; a See also:gift of See also:Governor C. C. Washburn). On the See also:lower campus is the building of the Wisconsin State See also:Historical Society.
The university includes a -college of letters and science, with See also:general courses in liberal arts and See also:special courses in See also:chemistry, See also:commerce, journalism, See also:music, See also:pharmacy and training of teachers and library See also:work; a college of engineering, with courses in See also:civil, See also:mechanical, See also:electrical, chemical and See also:mining engineering, and an applied electro-chemistry course; a college of agriculture, with a See also:government experiment station, See also:long, See also:middle and See also:short courses in agriculture, a See also:department of See also:home See also:economics, a See also:dairy course and farmers' institutes; a college of law (3 years' course); a college of See also:medicine, giving the first two years of a medical course; a See also:graduate school; and an See also:extension See also:division, including departments of instruction by lectures, of See also:correspondence study, of general See also:information and welfare, and of debating and public discussion. There is a summer session, in which, in addition to courses in all the colleges and See also:schools, instruction is offered to artisans and apprentices and in library training. The college of agriculture, one of the largest andbest equipped in the See also:country, provides also briefer courses of See also:practical training for farmers arid farmers' wives. In connexion with the state department of See also:health, instruction on the prevention and treatment of See also:tuberculosis is provided, exhibits and instructors or demonstrators being sent to every part of the state. The state hygienic laboratory is conducted by the university. On the university campus is the See also:forest products laboratory (1910) of the See also:United States government. At See also:Milwaukee there is a university See also:settlement associated with the social work of the university.
See also:Admission to the university is on examination or certificate from accredited high schools or See also:academies. Tuition is See also:free for residents of the state. Courses in the first two years are largely prescribed, in the last two years elective " under a definite system." In 1910 there were 395 instructors and 4947 students (356o men and 1387 women). The university library proper, of 163,000 volumes and 40,000 See also:pamphlets, is housed in the Historical Society's building, in which are also the collection of the Historical Society and that of the Wisconsin See also:Academy of Arts and Sciences—a See also:total in 1910 of 404,000 books and 202,000 pamphlets.
The grounds, buildings and equipments of the university are valued at $2,000,000. The income of the university, including income from the Federal See also:land grants, from invested productive funds and from state tax levies, exceeds one million dollars annually. Since 1905 the state legislature has appropriated for the current expenses of the university a 1 See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill tax. More than $2.000,000 was See also:left to the university in 1908 for a memorial See also:theatre, See also:research professorships and graduate fellowships by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Freeman See also:Vilas (184o–19o8), who graduated at the university in 1858 and was postmaster-general of the United States in 1885–1888, secretary of the interior in '888–'889 and U.S. senator from Wisconsin in 1891–1897.
An See also:act for the creation of a university to be supported by the Territory was passed by the first session of the Territorial legislature in 1836, but except for the naming of a See also:board of trustees the See also:plan was never put into operation. A similar act for the See also:establishment of a university at See also:Green See also:Bay had no more result. In 1838 a university of the Territory of Wisconsin was created by act of the Territorial legislature and was endowed with two townships of land. This was the germ- of the state university, See also:provision for which was made in the state constitution adopted in 1848. The university was incorporated by act of the legislature in that See also:year with a hoard of regents as the governing See also:body, chosen by the legislature.' A preparatory department was opened in the autumn of that year, and See also:John H. Lathrop (1799–1866), a graduate of Yale, then See also:president of the university of See also:Missouri, was chosen as the first See also:chancellor of the new institution. He was inaugurated in 185o, and in that year North Hall, the first building, was erected. The first See also:academic class graduated in 1854. In the same year the Federal See also:Congress (which had granted to the state seventy-two sections of See also:salt-See also:spring lands, and as no such lands were found in the state, had been petitioned to See also:change the nature of the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant) granted seventy-two sections to be "sold in such manner as the legislature may See also:direct for the benefit and in aid of the university." The Federal land grants, however, which ought to have supported the university, were sacrificed to a See also:desire to attract immigrants, and the institution for many years was compelled to get along on a small margin which rendered extension difficult; and the university permanent fund was soon impaired for the construction of buildings. See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Barnard in 1859 succeeded Lathrop as chancellor, but resigned in 1861. After the Civil See also:War, the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of chancellor was displaced by that of president. See also:Paul Ansel Chadbourne (1823–1883), a graduate (and afterwards president) of See also:Williams College, became president'in '867, and in his See also:presidency (1867–187o) the university was reorganized, a college of law was founded, co-See also:education was established and the agricultural college was consolidated with the university, a See also:radical departure from the plan adopted in most of the Western states. In 1871–1874 John See also:Hanson Twombly, a graduate of Wesleyan University and one of the founders of See also:Boston University, was president, and the legislature first provided for an See also:annual state tax of $ro,000 for the university. With the coming to the presidency (1874) of John See also:Bascom (b. 1827), another graduate of Williams, the university began a new See also:period of development; the preparatory department was
' The university is now governed by regents, of whom two—the president of the university and the state See also:superintendent of public instruction—are ex officio, and the others are appointed by the governor for a See also:term of three years, two from the state at large and one from each congressional See also:district.
abolished in 188o, and the finances of the university were put on a See also:firm basis by the grant of a state tax of one-tenth of a mill. Under the presidency (1887-1892) of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (b. 1843), a graduate of See also:Beloit College and a member of the U.S. See also:Geological Survey, the university attendance See also:grew from 500 to loon students, and buildings were erected for the college of law, dairy school and science hall. Under President See also:Charles See also:Kendall See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams (1835-1902), who was a graduate of the university of See also:Michigan, where as See also:professor of See also:history he had introduced in 1869-187o the See also:German method of " seminar " study and research, and who had just resigned the presidency (1885-1892) of Cornell University, the enrolment of the university increased from t000 in 1892 to 2600 in 1901, and the growth of the graduate school was particularly notable. Under Charles See also:Richard See also:Van-Hise,' who was the first alumnus to become president and who succeeded President Adams in 1904, the growth of the university continued, and its activities were constantly enlarged and the See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope of its work was widened.
See S. H. See also:Carpenter, A Historical See also:Sketch of the University of Wisconsin from 1849 to 1876 (Madison, 1876), and R. G. Thwaites, The University of Wisconsin, its History and its Alumni (Ibid., 1900).
End of Article: WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF
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