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teachers), of engineering, of law, of pharmacy, of agriculture and
domestic science, and of veterinary medicine. It occupies a campus of
110 acres, has an adjoining farm of 325 acres, and 18 buildings devoted
to instruction, 2 dormitories, and a library containing (1906) 67,709
volumes, besides excellent museums of geology, zoology, botany and
archaeology and history, the last being owned jointly by the university
and by the state archaeological and historical society. In 1908 the
faculty numbered 175, and the students 2277. The institution owed its
origin to federal land grants; it is maintained by the state, the United
States, and by small fees paid by the students; tuition is free in all
colleges except the college of law. The government of the university is
vested in a board of trustees appointed by the governor of the state for
a term of seven years. The first president of the institution (from 1873
to 1881) was the distinguished geologist, Edward Orton (1829-1899), who
was professor of geology from 1873 to 1899.

Other institutions of learning are the Capital University and
Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (Theological Seminary opened
in 1830; college opened as an academy in 1850), with buildings just east
of the city limits; Starling Ohio Medical College, a law school, a
dental school and an art institute. Besides the university library,
there is the Ohio state library occupying a room in the capitol and
containing in 1908 126,000 volumes, including a "travelling library" of
about 36,000 volumes, from which various organizations in different
parts of the state may borrow books; the law library of the supreme
court of Ohio, containing complete sets of English, Scottish, Irish,
Canadian, United States and state reports, statutes and digests; the
public school library of about 68,000 volumes, and the public library
(of about 55,000), which is housed in a marble and granite building
completed in 1906.

Columbus is near the Ohio coal and iron-fields, and has an extensive
trade in coal, but its largest industrial interests are in manufactures,
among which the more important are foundry and machine-shop products
(1905 value, $6,259,579); boots and shoes (1905 value, $5,425,087, being
more than one-sixtieth of the total product value of the boot and shoe
industry in the United States, and being an increase from $359,000 in
1890); patent medicines and compounds (1905 value, $3,214,096);
carriages and wagons (