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1919 University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas

 

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Established in 1871. A standard institution requiring four years in high school for entrance and four years in college for a degree. The work of the University of Arkansas is accepted at full value by all the great universities of the United States.

The College of Agriculture, Engineering, Education, and Liberal Arts are at Fayetteville; the Medical College is at Little Rock; the Branch Normal College for negroes at Pine Bluff.

At Fayetteville there is a campus of 120 acres, with twenty brick and stone buildings, having a value of more than a million dollars. There is also a farm of more than 400 acres for the use of the College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station.

The University of Arkansas annually enrolls students from about 70 of the 75 counties in the state, as well as from a large number of other states. Its graduates are in great demand to fill positions requiring training and skill.

In addition to the teaching and research work done on the campus, the University has a force of extension workers in agriculture and home economics numbering more than 200 persons working in every county in the state.

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