TIME AND TRADITIONS: 1870s

1874 Culture club

Milwaukee Female College becomes a center of social and cultural life for Milwaukee when a series of art and science lectures are sponsored by Charles Farrar, principal of the college. During Farrar's administration, the word "Female" is dropped from the school's title.

The library of the Ladies' Art and Science class	Illustration of the observatory dome from a Milwaukee College catalog of the 1880s

1875 Stargazing

Hiram Barber presents Milwaukee College with its first telescope. William P. McLaren then gives the college funds for the construction of a fully equipped observatory.