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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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103 competitor at an impartial examination to be conducted in such manner as the officers of the County Agricultural Society and Regent of the University may provide. Several counties had already thus provided for " prize scholarships " in the University, and had also contributed the sum of thirty dollars in each, to assist their students during the spring term of 1868. Mr. FLAGG moved that this Board warmly approve the plan of the Regent in regard to prize scholarships. Carried. INAUGURAL E X E R C I S E S VOTED. Mr. BURROUGHS presented the following preamble and resolutions, moving their adoption by the Board: WHEREAS, the opening of this State University is an event of much importance and public interest, and as such, deserves to be signalized by fitting solemnities > therefore, Resolved, That the eleventh day of March, 1868, be appointed for the formal opening of the University. Resolved, That the Regent be requested to deli var the Inaugural Address upon that occasion. Resolved, That his Excellency, Richard J. Oglesby, and the Hon. Newton Bateman ^ the respected State Superintendent of Public Instruction, be requested to make suitable addresses on the occasion. Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the proper celebration of this inauguration of the work of the University. The motion to adopt the preamble and resolutions prevailed. Messrs. Burroughs, Cobb, Brayman, Cunningham and Hayes were appointed said Committee. VOTE ON BALE OF SCRIP. Mr. CUNNINGHAM presented a resolution, as follows : Resolved, That the Regent prepare a report of the names of members of this Board who gave consent, in writing, to the sale of one hundred thousand acres of land scrip, sold in pursuance of the suggestions of the Executive Committee, at their June meeting, and that such report be entered upon the record by the Secretary, or submitted at this meeting. Adopted. The REGENT reported the names as follows: Messrs. Dunlap 5 Scroggs, Cunningham, Cobb, Van Osdel, Pickrell, Quick,Mahan^ Lawrence, Topping, A. M. Brown, Galusha, Bur.ou^hs, Burchard'
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