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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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BiUs and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution 589 institution, by a vote of the synod named, and the remaining one-third shall be elected by the board from among the citizens of Springfield and vicinity; said trustees not to serve longer than five years without being re-elected. Nine members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, at any regular or special meeting duly notified and assembled. Departments 4. Said corporation may establish separate departments of the learned porfessions of the sciences and arts, including, besides the usual departments of theology, medicine and law, a department of mechanical philosophy, and also of agriculture, and shall assign to each department a competent faculty of instruction: Provided, that the instructor or instructors, professor or professors constituting the faculty of theology, shall always be appointed by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod aforesaid. Certificate 5. Said corporation may issue certificates of Scholarship of scholarships, limited or perpetual, upon such terms as the corporation and the persons contracting for the scholarships may agree, and the benefit of said scholarship shall insure to the holders thereof, his or her heirs or assigns, so long as the covenants therein agreed to by persons contracting for or lawfully owning such scholarship shall continue to be faithfully performed, and no longer, except at the option of the corporation. Faculty 6. The professors, or a majority of them, duly appointed in said university, as provided for in section four of this act, shall constitute a faculty, or may, at the option of the board of trustees, be divided into several faculties, corresponding with ljie several departments finch may be establishe|j/in the institution, with|Sfwer
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