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sum to be paid in two instalments of $10,000 and $5,000 when the 

 trustees should raise "by subscription, donation or otherwise" like 

 amounts." In return for this grant the act provided (section 5): 

 "Each County shall be entitled to send one pupil under the age of 

 sixteen years to said University, tuition free, said pupil to be selected 

 by competitive examination before the County Superintendent of such 

 County, and given to the highest scholarship." The editor of the 

 Boulder News grew very indignant over this conditional plan of 

 appropriation, 2 but the board of trustees accepted the inevitable and 

 started in at once to try to raise the necessary $15,000. 



Within sight at last of its cherished goal, the university board 

 began a new movement to solicit subscriptions. Its first plan was 

 barren of results. On February 13 the ministers of the Presbyterian 

 and Protestant Episcopal churches, J. E. Anderson and Henry M. 

 Baum, were authorized to solicit donations in the East. 3 Mr. Baum 

 went to the eastern states during the summer to raise money for his 

 church, 4 and, probably, to seek donations for the university, but no 

 results appear. After the February meeting the board was unable 

 to get a quorum until July y. s The importance of the problem before 

 it led the board finally to take extreme measures. At the meeting 

 held on July 7 a committee submitted rules and by-laws for the 

 government of the board. These were adopted. Under the rules a 

 new election was necessary and Nathan Thompson, the minister of 

 the Congregational Church, was elected president of the board, Amos 

 Widner, its secretary, and George C. Corning continued as its 

 treasurer. 6 A committee was appointed to devise ways and means 

 of raising the $15,000 required by the legislature. This committee 

 reported at a meeting held on July 18, through George C. Corning, 

 its chairman. It suggested: "1st, That subscription papers be cir- 

 culated through the county; 2d, That donations be solicited from the 



1 General Laws, ioth session, pp. 307-8. Cf. Boulder News, February 6, 1874, February 13, 1874. 



■ Boulder News, February 20, 1874. 



3 Minute Book, pp. 46. < Boulder News, June 12, 1874. 



s Minute Book, pp. 48-49. No quorum present April 17, May 1, May 19, May 28. Cf. comment in 

 Boulder News, March 20, 1874. 



6 Minute Book, pp. 50-51; Governor's Message and Departmental Reports (1876), "Univ. of Colorado 

 Report," p. 4. 



