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CENTRAL BUILDING.—OLD CAPITOL.
LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.
By Emlin McClain, Vice-Chancellor of the Department.
IN March, 1865, the Trustees of the State University of Iowa, located at Iowa City in accordance with the provision of the State Constitution of 1857, by which the State Capital was removed from that city to Des Moines, requested from the Judges of the Supreme Court a report as to the expediency of organizing a Law Department. In June of that year such a report was made, strongly recommending the creation of such a Department. The reasons for such a recommendation are cogently set forth as follows:
"The creation and organization of such a Department are, as we think, demanded by the highest interests of the University. It would add not only to its usefulness, but to its reputation. The idea and purpose of a University are not realized by an institution which does not teach all the branches of useful knowledge. . . . The creation of such a Department is also required by the highest interests of the State. The idea is not for a moment to be entertained that our State is to be forever obliged to see its young men go to complete their education in any of the branches or departments of learning to the institutions of other States. State pride and a just self-respect forbid that this should permanently be so. The State wants the credit of the distinction which her sons may achieve in scientific, literary, and professional pursuits, and cannot without reproach be willing to see this reflected upon foreign institutions of learning."
In another report on the same subject the following considerations are also submitted:
"Some knowledge of the ordinary and elementary principles of law ought to be had by every
