MIAMI UNIVERSITY, in Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, is a coeducational institution. In 1788 J. C. Symmes purchased from the United States 1,000,000 acres of land, bounded south by the Ohio River, east by the Little Mi ami, and west by the Great Miami. One condi tion of this purchase was, that a full township, six miles square, should be set apart for the endowment of an academy and other seminaries of learning." This condition was not complied with; but as the prospect of the establishment of a university within the bounds of Symmes' purchase had induced many to settle there, in 1803 Congress ceded to the State of Ohio the township of Oxford, to be held in trust for educational purposes. The university was in corporated in 1809. The lands are leased for 99 years (renewable forever, without re-valua tion), subject to an annual quitrent of 6 per cent on the purchase money. The govern
ment is vested in a board of 27 trustees ap pointed by the governor of the State, nine of whom retire every third year. A grammar school was established in 1818, and in Novem ber 1824 the college department proper was opened. The school has normal and college departments, the courses leading to the degrees of B.A. and t3.S. In 1916 there were connected with the institution 55 professors and in structors and 789 students in the regular year, 1,154 in the summer school. The grounds and buildings were valued at $900.000. There were over 46,000 volumes in the library. The State aid amounted to about 205,652, and the total in come from tuition, productive fund and State was $250,000. The first class. consisting of 12 members, was graduated in 1826.