Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-03-30

ute the sum Of $4,000 to the endowment
fund shall be entitled to the privilege Of Civ
ing name TO the College, and shall be enti-
tied to twenty scholarships in the institution
for the term Of thirty years; or if any com.
pany or society Of individuals shall Jointly
contribute the aforesaid sum, they shall be
entitled TO the same privilege and the same
number Of scholarships.
2. That any individual, or any number Of
individuals jointly, or any organized society,
that shall contribute the sum Of $4,000 to-
ward the endowment of professorship,
shall have the privilege Of giving name TO
said profcssorship, and shall be entitled TO
ten scholarships in the institution for the
term Of twenty five years.
3. That each Of the two Conferences,
Missouri and st. Louis, shall raise the sum
$4,000 toward the endowment OF profess
orships, in the following manner, viz: Let
all the preachers Of the two Conferences
severally give their names 10 the agent for
The amount for which they may become res
ponsible, with the understanding that they
are to raise said amount in whole or in part,
as they may be able, from the friends Of the
enterprise within the bounds Of their res
pective charges or elsewhere. The afore-
said sum, when raised, shall entitlo each
Conference TO the privilege of giving name
70 professorship, and shall secure to each
member of said Conferences, who shall have
travelled four years within the bounds of the
same, ex-oilicio, all the rights and privi-
leges Of scholarship in the institution, to
him and to his family SO long as he may
have sons 10 be educated.
4. That any individual, or number of in
dividuals jointly, who shall contribute the
sum Of 5000 toward the endowment fund
shall be entitled to scholarship in the in
stitution for the Germ of twenty years.
B. Any individual or number of individ-
uals jointly, who shall contribute the sum
Of 500 toward the endowment fund, shall
be entitled to scholarship in the institution
for the term Of ten years.
6. Any individual contributing $50 TO-
ward the endowment fund, shall be entitled
to scholarship for the term of four years.
7. Each Conference shall appoint an eff
cient agent who shall travel extensively
through the bounds Of the two Conferences
and labor for The College, until they shall
raise the entire endowment fund in accord
ance with The provisions Of the foregoing
plan, which fund shall be secured in notes
or bonds, payable in two equal annual pay
ments from the date of subscription
s. BY the term scholarship is meant the
privilege of keeping one student in the pro-
posed College for the several periods res
pectively above mentioned, which scholar
ships are not assignahle.
The proceedings of this convention hav-
ing been reported 10 the two Conferences,
by the commissioners, were concurred in,
and the following gentlemen appointed a
Board Of Curators:
On the part of the 81. Louis Conference,
]. s. Waddell, Silas Silver, Chas. w. Stew
ard, Edward ]. Gay, Henry r. Walker, w.
Adams, Esqr,, DR.. VIM. Price, Revs. d.
R. McAnally, J. X Lacy, Thos. johnson,
N. Scarrit, ]. Boyle, D. D., ]. F. Truslow,
]. T. Peery, and James Mitchell.
On the part of the Missouri Conference.
W. D Swinney, 10 Davis, G. C. P. Hill,
Abel Leonard, G. NJ. B. Maughs, NJ. D.,
Alexander Mitchell, John B. Clark, Revs.
A. Monroe, R. ?. Holt, VIM. B. Watts, B.
II. Spencer, 2. NJ. Pinckard, J. T. Riggs,
R. g. Lowing and w. G. Caples.
And Rev. J. r. Pccry, on thepart Of
the St. Louis aud Rev. p. NJ. Pinckard on
the part Of the Missouri Conference
Agents.
4 meeting of the Board Of Curators was
held in the town of Fayet,e, and the Board
duly organized by appointing Rev. ]. Bowie
d. D., Of the ST. Louis Conference, Presi-
dent, Judge c. c. p. Hill vice President,
". T. Lucky Secretary, aud a. Hendrix,
Treasurer.
The following was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee of three be
appointed TO look for suitable site for the
College building and report 10 the next
meeting of the Board. Col. 10 Davis, DR..
G, III. 3. Maughs, and Alexander Mitchell
were appointed said committee.
Resolved, That an executive committee
Of five bc ppointed-Abiel Leonard, Gen.
J. B. Clark, Rev. r. G. Loving, DR.. G.. NJ.
B. Maughs, and C. C. P. ILL, were appcin-
ted
Resolved, That the executive committee
shall have power TO fix the terms Of subscrip-
tons, for the College buildings and forms Of
obligation to be used by the agents.
Rev. ]. I. Pocry the agent appointed by
The St. LoHis Conference, having declined
TO act. il was
Resolved, That the executive committee
be instructed 10 procure if possible The SER
vices Of a suitable agent to act in the bounds
Of The st. Louis Conference.
The Executive committee have in accor-
dance with the above proceedings secured
the services of Rev. b. r. Johnson, as agent
for the ST. Louis Conference, who will en-
Ter on his duties about the first of January
And now this proposition comes to you
as citizens of Missouri. The present is an
age of progress and development, and oars
is country of stirring progress and unpar-
alleled development, and shall! not the State
of Missouri equal her sister States in the on,
ward march of intellectual, as we'll as phys.
ical cni moral improvement? To do so VIZ
must have schools and Colleges Of cur own
and Of high grade in their spective classes
for without these we cannot be Independent