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1903 THE HATCHET 11 perpetual succession, were created a corporation to be known as “The Eliot Seminary.” These men were vested with full corporate rights; and property held by them was declared exempt from taxation. The management of the Seminary was lodged in a Board of Directors, which should have power to fill vacancies among its number and have unrestricted control over the government and instruction in the Seminary. Under the authority granted by this charter, just one year after its passage, the Board of Directors met to effect an organization. In deference to the wishes of Dr. Eliot, they decided to change the name of the Seminary, and from the prominence which the anniversary of Washington’s birth had had in its inception, decided to call it Washington Institute. In the constitution which they drew up, one provision forbade that in the institution there should ever be any instruction partisan in politics, sectarian in religion, or that any test of such a nature should be used for any purpose whatsoever. Previous to this meeting, it had been thought impossible immediately to begin instruction ; but conditions proving very- favorable, a school for boys, already conducted for a year by Mr. Nathan D. Tirrell, was made the first department of the Institute. The next winter, 1854-5, an elementary evening school was opened. In the spring of 1855, a number of men connected with the manufacturing and mechanical industries of the city organized, under the seminary charter, the O’Fallou Polytechnic Institute, the immediate purpose of which was, by library and reading rooms, by evening classes such as had been conducted during the winter, by popular scientific lec¬ tures, and by expositions and exhibits of various sorts, to do what it could to heighten the grade of work done by- apprentices and craftsmen then busy at their trades.
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Y the middle of the last century, the great tide of westward immigration had entered St. Louis, and her citizens realized the need of a more comprehensive system of educa¬ tion than had yet existed. The city had been little more than a frontier trading post. Hunters and trappers had frequented her streets, and the prairie schooner on its way to a western claim had halted over night in the outskirts. With the influx of a great number of Germans in 1S4X, of the California gold seekers in ’41), and of the mass of people who followed them, St. Louis became, in size and population, a city. The inhabi¬ tants were still pioneers and the commerce was largely barter. The city lacked solid industrial development, and the special knowledge and general culture which alone could make that possible. With a view to laying the foundation for this knowledge, Mr. Wayman Crow secured the passage through the State Legislature of “An Act to incorporate Eliot Seminary.” The bill was approved on Washington’s Birthday, February 112, IKoB. The intention was to provide for an institution of learning which should be free to offer such instruction as might be needed within the sphere of its influence. Seventeen prominent St. Louisans and their associates and successors in
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