Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-01-29
THE SUPPORT OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
Conditions, January /, 1920.

Conditions, January 1. 1920.
prepared by J. T. Crawley a Senior
Law Student Attending the Univer.
sity.)
The University Of Mississippi was
duly chartered by the legislature or
the twenty-fourth day of February
1874. In July, 184S, the election Of
the first faculty occurred, and on the
sixth of November, of that year, the
first session opened. This venerable
institution now comes to the legisla-
ture at time when it's needs are
such that they should be met or the
institution should close its doors. II
simply cannot function efficiently with
it's limited support fund, lack of dor
mitory facilities, class rooms and
equipment.
Within the past twenty years the
University has received from the state
the small sum of 10000 for the
construction of new buildings on the
campus.
During the past seventy years foui
dormitories for men have been built
ov,l %b,.oo ,f kboco oc aoco,rpt Cf old
age, have been condemned, demolished
and removed.
One dormitory for women with a ca
pacity of forty six students has beer
erected.
With an attendance of six hundred
and eight students, the current ses
sion, the University has room for only
two hundred and twenty-six student
in the dormitories proper. Many stu
dents are forced to live in the ole
Chapel, in dark, dingy and discarded
class rooms in the Lyceum building
which was erected seventytwo year.
ago, while a number of the students
are lodging in quarters that are insan-
itary and dangerous. Many of the
rooms have from three to four boys il
them and at one time there were four.
teen boys in one room. These condi
lions render studying almost impossi
BILE.
Many students now in ATTENDANCE
are forced to room in town where room
rent averages eight dollars per month
for each student. The lack of dormi-
tory facilities together with the high
cost Of rooms in private families has
freed more than one hundred students
to leave the institution, who were
to obtain an education at
their State University.
During the earlier part of the ses-
sion the dining halls were so crowd
ed that more than score of students
had to be served at second table.
The state has not built a single
recitation or administration building
at the University during the past fiji
ty-five years.
Peabody Eduaction building and the
library building were both donated to
the University. They are the best
and the only modern buildings on the
campus and were it not for these the
University would be deprived of more
than one-half of it's present class
rooms and all class rooms for the reg
ular college department, except four
old and undesirable ones.
Should new dormitories be provided
without more class rooms it would be
impossible to accommodated at this
time.
The School of Medicine and of
Pharmacy as we'll as that of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts depends upon an
tiquated and hardly usuable lahora-
tories for their chemistry work. The
old laboratories were built seventy.
two years ago and are in state OF
decay which endangers students seek
ing to work in these dens. Unless the
legislature provides for a chemica
building which can at the same time
take care of new class rooms, the Uni
yersity should either cease to function
or it should limit the attendance u
less than three hundred students.
The Chapel was erected in 1883 ant
lis therefore sixty-seven years OLD
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