The purpose and aim of the Mississippi State College for Women is the moral and intellectual advancement of the girls of the state by the maintenance of a first-class institution for their education in the arts and sciences, for their training in normal school methods and kindergarten, for their instruction in bookkeeping, photography, stenography, telegraphy, and typewriting, and in designing, drawing, engraving, and painting, and their industrial application, and for their instruction in fancy, general and practical needlework, and in such other industrial branches as experience, from time to time, shall suggest as necessary or proper to fit them for the practical affairs of life.
Miss. Code Ann. § 37-117-3
Purpose and aim of university
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982)
Most recently applied in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (July 1982)
Codes, 1892, § 2296; 1906, § 2524; Hemingway’s 1917, § 4949; 1930, § 7205; 1942, § 6711.
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