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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



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The first board of directors was composed of seventeen well-known 

 influential citizens of St. Louis, who were named in the charter and 

 who were given the power to fill vacancies in their number caused by 

 death or resignation. To this board made up of many of the most 

 prominent and successful professional and business men of St. Louis 

 much of the success of the university is due. Not only have they at 

 all times been most generous in their gifts, but by their careful and 

 broad-minded administration of the affairs of the institution, they 

 have carried it through several financial crises and brought it to its 

 present prosperous condition and to its place of commanding influence 

 in the educational world. 



The beginnings, like those of most of the educational institutions 

 of the country that have not had a munificent gift from some philan- 



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