University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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COPYRIGIJT Copyright, 1935, by Virginia Wenrz, editor, and Thomas Tongue, business manager . . . Printed at the Valley Printing Co. in Eugene . . . Pho- tography by Kennell-Ellis studio of Eugene . . , Engraved by the Hicks-Chatren Engraving Co. of Penland under zhe supervision of Raymond E. Alexander.

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n pzccozm of Certain CELEBRITIES of the of UVBLQOI4 . . With illustrations: 'MZ O RE GANA 0' 1 1 ' X ei .31 J 3 . cpgefwf The ASSOCIATED STUDENTS or the ZINIVEKSITY of OMSGON. 19 3 3. .

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il THE rue Account of a uccexflf Jufiiziba., g b HE University of Oregon has been marked by continual bat- Avh V tles for its expansion and for its very life and has always emerged forth the victor. A short review of the establishment of this successful institution is herein enscribed on . ' lis p - r aft Qhtza these pages. The act of Congress of February 14, 1859, admitting Oregon into the union provided for a state university by the grant of seventy- two sections of land for that purpose. During the twelve years between the act of Congress and the first move toward organizing the university, Corvallis began its career, at first under Methodist auspices and later as the State Agriculture College. Wlmen the legislature convened in the fall of 1872, bills for the location were brought forward by Corvallis, Monmouth, Albany, Salem, Forest Grove and Eugene. The success of Eugene's bill was due to several causes, most prominent of which was the absence of sectarian influences in the movement. Further, the people of southern Oregon supported the bill because the town was more accessible to them than were any of the other locations proposed. Finally, the activity of several citizens of Eugene aided in bringing the bill to success. At the general meeting, August 26, 1872, the citizens of Eugene determined to form an organization to be known as the Union Uni- versity Association, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars and appointed a com- mittee to draft articles of incorporation. 1 1 1 1 I-IEN the legislature convened the representatives of the Association in- troduced the bill referred to, designating Eugene as the location for the State Univer- sity, which passed the legislature with a large majority October 19, 1872. It provided for a board of directors, numbering nine, six of whom were to be appointed by the gov- ernor, subject to the approval of the senate, the other three to be elected by the stock holders of the Union University Association. Each county was entitled to gratuitous in- struction for one pupil, and one pupil to every member and joint member of the leg- islature to which such county was entitled.