1871
Yesterday....
Established, 1871. One hundred students enrolled first year. The
institution had only one frame building and practically no library
or scientific equipment. The first brick building erected was
University Hall, built in 1873. The ivy-covered towers of "Old Main"
are now the most famous landmark in northwest Arkansas. The new
engineering and agriculture buildings were built in 1926 as the
first step in a new and farsighted building plan for future
development. Enrollment has steadily increased, indicating the
growing usefulness of the University and the esteem in which it is
held by the people of Arkansas. The institution now confers annually
more degrees than it conferred in the first thirty years of its
existence.
1936
Today...
Today there are on campus at Fayetteville twenty-four buildings
which, with their equipment, represent a value of nearly $4,000,000.
The new library is one of the most imposing and beautiful buildings
in the nation. It contains 120,000 volumes. The new chemistry
building, a very large structure, houses, for the time being, three
other science departments. All the new buildings are of stone and of
beautiful architecture. This year the student body totaled more than
2,100 students. The faculty members more than 170 trained
instructors and administrative officers. Entrance requirements and
scholarly standards of the University are such that it on the
approved list of all standardizing agencies. It is the only
institution in the state having a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, oldest
and most famous of scholarly organizations. On the Fayetteville
campus the University maintains divisions of sciences, education,
agriculture, engineering, business and administration, law and
graduate studies. In Little Rock, the School of Medicine, housed in
a fully equipped building of modern design.
