CHAPTER FIVE
 DR. MURPHREE COMES TO GAINESVILLE

 "My philosophy makes life-the system of feelings and de-
 airee-upreme; and leaves knowledge merely the post of oberrver.
 This system of feeling s a fact in our minds about which there
 can be no dispute, a fact of which we have intuitive knowledge, a
 knowledge not inferred arguments, nor generated by reason
 ings which can be received or neglected as we choose. Only such
 face-to-face knowledge has reality. It alone can get life in motion,
 since it springs from life."
 -FICHTL.

 REVIEw of the steps involved in the creation of the
 University of Florida at Gainesville is in order at
 this point in the biography of Albert Alexander
 Murphree.
 We have noted already that there were several institu-
tions of higher learning in the state previous to 1905. In
1870, the legislature of Florida by an act entitled "An Act to
Establish the Florida Agricultural College," entered into a
contract with the United States Government under the terms
of a federal grant to erect and keep in repair all buildings
necessary for a state agricultural college. Funds for this in-
stitution were to be obtained by the sale of land.
 In 1872, an act supplementary to the act of 1870 was
passed, and the state thereby received 90,000 acres of land.
The proceeds from the sale of this land were invested in "The
Agricultural College Fund" bonds. In 1873 a site for the
college was selected in Alachua county, but nothing further
came of this step. In 1875, the college was located at Ean
Gallie and a temporary college building was erected. No
educational progress having been accomplished there, the
trustees, in 1878, determined to remove the college and a com-
mittee from the Board was appointed to decide upon a suitable
situation.
 In 1883, Lake City was selected on account of its special
fitness, and the citizens having given to the institution 100
acres of land and $15,000, the college was established there.
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