St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-27
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Next October 1t Will Include a
Medical Department--Doings of
the Regents.

Next OCCOOcr 1t VIII 1nCiUue u
Medical Experimentation of
the Regents.
At the capitol yesterday the board of
regents of the state university held a
lengthy business meeting. BY resolu-
ton it was decided to incorporate a
medical department in the university,
to be opened October next. A COM
mittee was appointed to recommend
instructors, consisting Of George +.
French, president of the state medical
board, and President Cyrus Northrop,
of the university. They will nominate
the faculty for instruction in Home
opathy and the practice of old school.
The course will be three years, and DIR.
the faculty. Every effort will be made
to model the school after the best of the
Eastern medical colleges. AS no APP
preparation has yet been made for the
department, the services OF the instruc-
tors will be gratis for while.
The faculty of the law department
is as follows: Cyrus Northrop, presi-
dent; William Pattee, dean and pro-
fesSor of law of contracts; Hon. s. j.
r. Mcmillan, lecturer on constitutional
law; Hon. Gordon Z. Cole, lecturer ON
corporations; Hon. Charles ID. Kerr,
lecturer on law of partnership;
G. G. Ripley. equity, jurispru-
dence new procedure; Charles A.
Willard, the law of bailments;
John B. Atwater, the law of real prop
erty; Hon. c. ID. O'Brien, criminal law
and procedure: Hon. w. d. Cornish,
life and fire insurance, lecturer on law
of domestic relations, law of tOrtS, law
and code pleading, evidence and admin
iStratlon, SuretyShip and mortgage,
practice in United States courts.
The idea of the school is to instruct
the students so that they will be fitted
to practice in any part of the United
States after two years. Following are
the studies:
Junior Year-Contracts torts, crimi-
nal law and procedure, real property,
equity. jurisprudence, fire and life in
surance, partnership, constitutional
law, common law and code pleading.
Senior Year-Contracts, evidence,
suretyship and mortgages, wills and adj
ministrati0n, law OF taxation, law OF
domestic relations.
The advisory committee of the expert
ment station is composed of farmers
from various sections of the state who
were selected to make suggestions as to
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success. Following is the committee:
G. A. Sprague, Fillmore county; w. II.
Bulls, FaribauIt county; l.. Stanton,
Swift county; L. L. Smith, Ramsey
county, and Mr.. Bum, Martin county.
To promote efficiency the station was
reorganiZed as follows:
Farm superintendent, director of sta
ton and heads of divisions. The work
of the station will be conducted in the
following divisions: General field and
grain farming, stock and dairying,
horticulture and entomology, botany,
veterinary and chemistry.
The heads of divisions shall constitute
and be known as the corps of expert
mentation, to consider and devise all
matters necessary to the ends for which
it was organized. They shall issue
quarterly bulletins of work accom-
plished at each station and an annual
report to the board of regents. The
advisory board met at the Merchants
and approved the report on the estab-
lishment of department of mechanical
arts.