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to make it possible to raise money in this way, and the 

 project was soon abandoned. 



The Session of 1859 closed about the middle of De- 

 cember, and the Trustees then thought that the success 

 which had attended the effort under the difficulties, met 

 in making it, would induce the Legislature to afford means 

 to complete the buildings. Accordingly, a bill asking 

 money for this purpose was placed in the hands of one of 

 the members, to be brought before the House of Repre- 

 sentatives. The bill, however, never reached its second 

 reading, and the College, incumbered with debt, and its 

 building unfinished, was left to struggle through another 

 year, dependent in part for its existence upon the energy 

 and enterprise and liberality of those who had already 

 sacrificed so much to bring it thus far. 



The Session of 1860 was inaugurated with a full school, 

 while several who applied from other states, could not be 

 admitted. The increased experience of the faculty in 

 managing it, and the greater experience of the students 

 in performing their duties, gave additional hope of the 

 ultimate success of the College, if its buildings only could 

 be completed; on the other hand it became equally evi- 

 dent that if they were not completed, the school must 

 stop, and all the property accumulated be sacrificed to 

 meet its debts. 



FINAL APPEAL TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE. 



Successive appeals to private individuals had failed to 

 secure the funds required. Being a State Institution, and 

 not a denominational school, it had not the advantage of 

 being able to interest any special sect in its favor. But on 

 the other hand being an Agricultural School, devoted to 

 the Agricultural interests of an Agricultural State, and 

 having originated in an effort of the State Agricultural 

 Society, and having been aided in its origin by State ap- 

 propriations, it became most appropriately an object for 

 State patronage, therefore, at a meeting of the Board of 

 Trustees, held at the College, December 5th, 1860, it was 



Resolved, That the sum of $50,000 was necessary to 



