The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wyoming, University of
WYOMING, University of, located at
Laramie, Wyo. It was chartered by the
legislature of the Territory of Wyoming in 1886,
and opened to students in 1887; the first State
legislature in 1890 passed an act enlarging the
scope of the University and also made the
State Agricultural College provided by the
national grants a part of the University
organization. The State has since doubled its regular
appropriation and made several others
for special purposes. The University is open
to women on equal terms; tuition is tree
except in the Department of Music. The
educational policy of the University was liberal
from the first; the preparatory and collegiate
departments were the first established; the
organization now includes the Preparatory School;
the College of Liberal Arts; the Graduate
School; the Normal School; the College of
Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment
Station; the College of Engineering; the School
of Mines; the School of Commerce; the School
of Music; the department of secondary education,
and a summer school. The College of
Liberal Arts offers a classical, a literary and
a scientific course and confers the degree of
B.S. for the scientific course without Latin, and
the degree of B.A. for all other courses. In
each course the work of the Freshman year is
required, the work of the Sophomore year
partially elective, and the work of the Junior and
Senior years almost entirely elective. The
Graduate School was discontinued in 1914. The
regular courses in the Normal School, the
College of Agriculture, the College of Mechanical
Engineering and the School of Mines are
five years in length, including one preparatory
year. tThe degree of B. Ped. is conferred for the
completion of the normal course; the degree
of B.S. for the agricultural, engineering and
mining courses. There are also a one year's
course in the Normal School, a course in
domestic science, a one year's and a two years'
agricultural course and a ranchmen's winter
course in the College of Agriculture, and a
winter course of six weeks in the School of
Mines. The School of Commerce offers two
two-year courses in bookkeeping and in
stenography; the School of Music a seven-years'
course in piano. Instruction in military science
and tactics is also given. The University has
organized a University Extension Association,
which conducts extension lectures in all parts
of the State; a Correspondence Teaching
Department is also conducted, by which some of
the work toward a degree may be done. The
campus now occupies over 40 acres in the eastern
part of the city; the buildings are the Hall
of Languages, the Mechanical Building, the
Hall of Science, and the Gymnasium; the three
first mentioned are built of gray sandstone,
which is found near Laramie. The library
contains about 35,000 volumes; the students number
603; and 80 professors and instructors.
The University of Wyoming, though in numbers one of the smallest of the State universities, is well equipped and maintains a high standard of scholarship, as the real head of the educational system of the State.
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Mechanical Building and Science Hall
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Hall of Languages