Nebraska City
a city and countyseat of Otoe co., Neb.; on the Missouri river and on the Burlington Route and the Missouri Pacific railroads: 60 miles E. by S. of Lincoln. Here are the State Institution for the Blind, a United States government building, public library, St.
Bernard's Academy, high school, waterworks, street railroad, electric lights, several daily and weekly newspapers, and banks. The city has extensive stock yards, lumber and planing mills, cereal and flour mills, starch factory, foundry, plow factories, a meat-packing plant and brickyards. Pop. (1910) 5,488; (1920) 6,279.
NEBRASKA, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational institution, founded at Lincoln, Neb., in 1869. There were in 1919 5,529 students with 200 teachers. The endowment fund amounted to $809,000,- 000 and the value of grounds and buildings to $4,500,000. There are 145,000 volumes in the library. The total income amounted to approximately $2,280,- 000. The president is Samuel Avery, Ph. D.
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVER- SITY, a coeducational institution in University Place, Neb.; founded in 1887 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 45; students, 853; volumes in the library, 4,500; productive funds, $10,000; grounds and buildings valued at $150,000; benefactions, $1,579; income, $13,227; number of graduates, 895; president, I. B.
Schreckengast, D. D.
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