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In any incarnation east Florida seminary is at worst the exact same age as west Florida seminary. In reality, we’re a few years older. We consider our founding date to be when classes started Smack Apparel Florida Gators Football Fans Drink Up Chomp On shirt. Yall consider it to be when the law was passed that created both schools, so to someone that doesn’t know the history Ltd appear like fsu was 2yrs older when by the standards we use they’re 4 years younger.
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The history of higher education in Florida pre-20th century was a bit convoluted. The Universities went through periods of being seminaries. Being cadet academies for the civil Smack Apparel Florida Gators Football Fans Drink Up Chomp On shirt, adding and losing different programs and names. FSU, under its prior iterations, had the first medical school in the state. But it later moved to Jax and then the Buckman act moved some programs to UF. UF also was the combination of 3 other schools scattered across north and central FL (an ag school, military institute, and industrial institute).