IOWA, STATE UNIVERSITY OF. An educational institotion for both sexes in Iowa City, Iowa, organized with an endowment by Congress of two townships of land, to which has been added a permanent annual State appropriation of $125. 000, and a tax of one-tifth of a mill for building purposes. making a total annual income of over $402.000, including tuition fees. The institution was opened in 1855 and reorganized in 1560. The buildings are seventeen in number, and with the grounds :ire valued at about $700,000. The li brary suffered the loss of 25.000 volumes by a lire in 1897, and in 1902 ettntained about 63.000 volumes and a large numb, r of pamphlets. The work of the university is organized in a college of liberal arts. colleges of law. medicine. 11011)02° p:it hie medicine, dent ist ry and phannaev, a graduate department. the Iowa School tat and Social Seience, and t WO hospitals. The college of liberal arts confers the decrees of 11.A., B.Ph.. and B.S. The graduate college confers the degrees of M.A., M.S., Ph.D.. civil engineer,
and electrical engineer. The eollepe of liberal arts maintains a summer session for leacher: and a summer school for library training. The university provides public lectures and exten sion courses. and is in close touch with the edu cational institutions of the State through its system of accredited high sehnol:. The attend ance in 1902 (excluding duplicates) was 1512. llie faculty, instructors. and administrative staff numbered 105. The publications of the uni versity include a Natural History Bulletin, a Lair Bulletin, Unircrsity Studies in Psychology, niol Studies in Sociology, Economics, Polities, LanglIfIgC8, and History. The control of the uni ver•ity is Nested in a board of regents. consist ing of the Governor of the 'state. the Superin tendent of Public Instruction. and eleven 1111'111 hers chosen by the General Assembly of Iowa.