The principal object of the University of Southern Mississippi shall be to qualify teachers for the public schools of this state, by imparting instruction in the art and practice of teaching in all branches of study which pertain to a common school education, and such other studies as the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning may from time to time prescribe.
Miss. Code Ann. § 37-119-3
Object of the university
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Bruner v. University of Southern Mississippi (1987)
Most recently applied in Bruner v. University of Southern Mississippi (January 1987)
Codes, Hemingway’s 1917, § 6079; 1930, § 7229; 1942, § 6731; Laws, 1910, ch. 119; Laws, 1948, ch. 297, § 1.
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