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1864-1914 CHARTER OF THE COLORADO SEMINARY An Act to Incorporate the Colorado Seminary Approved March 5. 1864 He It Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory: Section 1. That John Evans, Samuel H. Elbert, W. X. Byers, II. Burton, A. B. Case. J. G. Vawter, A. G. Gill. W. I). Pease, Edwin Scudder, J. II. Morrison, Warren Hussey, J. W. Smith, D. II. Moffat. Jr.. K. E. Whitsitt. C. A. Cook, John Crec, Amos Steek. J. M. Chivington, J. B. Doyle, Henry Henson. Amos Widner, John T. Lynch. Milo Lee. J. B. Chaffee, Lewis Jones, O. A. Willard, W. H. H. Loveland and Robert Berry Ik and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate for the purpose of founding, directing and maintaining an institution of learning, to be styled the Colorado Seminary, and in manner hereinafter prescribed to have perpetual succession, with full power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, adopt and alter at pleasure a seal, acquire, hold and convey property, real, personal and mixed, to the extent they may judge necessary for carrying into effect the objects of this corjx ration. and. generally, to perform such other acts as may l e necessary and proper therefor. Sec. 2. Said Trustees, at their first meeting, shall be divided into four classes of seven in each class, which class shall hold office for one. two. three and four years respectively, dating from the first day of July, 1864; their successors shall lx appointed whenever terms expire, or vacancies for any cause exist, by the annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, within whose bounds the City of Denver may be included, but all of said Trustees and their successors shall continue in office until their successors are elected. Sec. 3. No test of religious faith shall ever be applied as a condition of admission into said Seminary, but the Trustees shall have power to adopt all proper rules and regulations for the government of the conduct of teachers and pupils, and the management of all affairs pertaining to said institution. Sec. 4. They shall have full power to confer all degrees and emoluments customary to l e given by similar institutions. Sec. 5. Such property as may lx necessary for carrying out the design of the Seminary in the best manner, while used exclusively for such purposes, shall be free from all taxation. Sf.c. 0. In all cases, a majority of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum for transacting any business, or said majority may vest the power of the Trustees in an Executive Committee, or agent of their-number, at pleasure. Fifteen
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The Founding of Our Great University Tire infant of a day. however small, is great as the center of attention in the jubilant household that has been stirred by its first cry. and honored by its advent. Delighted and loving response greets the weird and welcome music of that cry. It is difficult to hark back from the voice of the basso-prof undo that comes in the stalwart manhood from that same throat! Iiut it is a pleasure to contrast the voices of babe and man; to trace the gradual change from the one to the other, through the prattle of childhood, the shouts of youth, the mature speech of adult wisdom, to the forceful and captivating language of culture and manly worth. I gladly comply with the request to write, in this series of papers, of the “infant” whose growth into the gigantic stature of our great University moves our admiring gratitude at this semi-centennial time. There was sent to Colorado in 1802 as Territorial Governor, an em-bodiment of educational enthusiasm, intellectual strength, administrative wisdom and Christian fervor in the person of Dr. John Evans. His experience in the founding of the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, prepared him to look with ho|reful vision toward an educational institution even in this then but sparsely settled region. lie saw vast opportunity opening here, not only for stock ranges, fields for agriculture, mineral wealth: but for the increase of knowledge and mental training among the youth of the coming immigration, and the education of the children who should Ire born here; all unto the best occupancy of these fruitful regions. At the same time there came to Colorado a young minister who had lived under the educational influence of Evanston, that same center of learning. Ilis name shows the stock from which he came—Oliver A. Willard. lie was a man of fine culture and a minister of rare ability- He joined Governor Evans, those named in the accompanying Charter, and many other enterprising citizens, the names of whom the limits of this paper forbid me to mention, in the founding of the Colorado Seminary, the “infant from which has grown the University whose Jubilee Year we celebrate. Sixteen
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