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 PEOPLE'S COLLEGE 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK, 
 
 Incorporated by Act of the Legislature^ passed April 13> 1853. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 ■WYNKGOP, HALLENBEOK & THOMAS, PEINTERS, 
 
 No. 113 Fulton Strbbt. 
 
 1860. 
 
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PEOPLE'S COLLEGE. 
 
 (s;^ This Institution, of which a brief account follows, was 
 ^ incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New 
 (^ York, April 12th, 1854, and was located at the village of Ha- 
 vana, in Schuyler county, N. Y., January 8th, 1851. 
 
 College Edifice. 
 
 This will be spacious and imposing. Its length -will be 320 
 feet, and its width 52 feet. It will be four stories high, with 
 a basement. At either end will be a wing 206 feet long, 52 
 feet wide, and four stories high. 
 
 From the centre will be a wing projecting rereward YO feet ; 
 64 feet wide, and three stories high. The building will be 
 surmounted by a cupola of an octagonal form, 36 feet in diame- 
 ter, and extending upwards 50 feet from the apex of the roof. 
 A cupola is also to be placed on each of the e:n& wings. The 
 basement walls of the structure are to be of stone ; the re- 
 maining portion of the walls are to be of brick. 
 
 This building will contain a chapel of a capacity to seat 
 thirteen hundred persons ; 16 lecture rooms; 47 rooms for the 
 president, professors, secretary, treasurer, &c., and 220 cham- 
 bers for students, each being arranged for the accommodation 
 of two persons. It will also contain a culinary department, 
 and rooms for the steward, servants, &c. 
 
 Plan of the College. 
 
 It is the intention of the Trustees to make this Institution 
 not only the best so far as practical knowledge is concerned, 
 but to afford opportunities to all who may desire them, for ob- 
 taining as thorough a knowledge of all that pertains to science 
 or literature, as any other institution in the world. Curricula 
 of study have not been yet fully prepared. At a recent meet- 
 ing of the Board, the following resolutions were, however, 
 adopted : 
 
1. That, until otherwise ordered, the Trustees of this Col- 
 lege will endeavor to endow or otherwise provide for the main- 
 tenance of the following named Professorships in this institu- 
 tion, viz. : 
 
 1st. A Professorship of Natural and Revealed Theology. 
 
 2d. Of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. 
 
 3d. Of Jurisprudence and Political Economy. 
 
 4th. Of Logic, and the Science and Art of Instruction. 
 
 5th. Of Ancient and Modern History. 
 
 6th. Of English Literature, Rhetoric, and Oratory. 
 
 1th. Of Taste as applied to the Arts, and of the History of 
 the Arts. 
 
 8th. Of Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, and Veterinaiy, 
 
 9th. Of Natural History, comprising Zoology, Ichthyology, 
 and Entomology. 
 
 10th. Of Chemistry, Botany, and Mineralogy. 
 
 11th. Of Agricultural Chemistry, and Chemistry as applied 
 to the Arts, and Geology. 
 
 12th. Of Practical Agriculture. 
 
 13th. Of Horticulture. 
 
 14th. Of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 
 
 15th. Of the Application of the Sciences to the Arts, com- 
 prising Architecture, Engineering, &c. 
 
 16th. Of Geography, Meteorology, and Astronomy. 
 
 11th. Of the Latin and Greek Languages. 
 
 18th. Of the Modern Languages. 
 
 19th. Principal of the Preparatory Department. 
 
 2. That there shall be established three Courses of Study in 
 this College, which shall be severally denominated Classical, 
 Scientific, and Provisional or Select ; and, for admission to the 
 Classical department, students shall be required to sustain an 
 examination in such studies as are now required to be pursued 
 in order for admission to the other Colleges of the State. Stu- 
 dents designing to pursue the Scientific Courses of Study 
 shall be required to sustain an examination in English Gram- 
 mar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Algebra, through Simple 
 Equations. For admission to the Provisional or Select Course 
 
of Study, no more shall be required, than that the student shall 
 have capacity and culture sufficient to enable him to pursue 
 with profit to himself, and without hindrance to others, the 
 branch or branches of stud}"- of his choice. 
 
 The length of the College Course to be pursued in the Clas- 
 sical and Scientific Departments, to entitle students in the one 
 case to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in the other to that of 
 Bachelor of Science, shall be four years. Students, however, 
 who may enter the College with the intention of pursuing a 
 select course of study, shall, at the close of their course, be 
 entitled to an examination in the branches pursued by them, 
 and, if meritorious, to a certificate or diploma, signed by the 
 President of the College, and such other persons as may 
 be hereafter designated, which shall expressly specify the 
 branches pursued by them. 
 
 More recently, it has been established, that at an early day, 
 a Preparatory Department shall be opened, to be connected 
 with the College, to which the privileges of labor, so far as 
 practicable, shall be extended ; and that earnest efforts shall 
 be made to keep the expenses of students at this College, in- 
 cluding Tuition, Board, and Room-rent, as low as $120 per 
 annum. Each student will be allowed the avails of his labor, 
 and, if so disposed, to apply them to the reduction of his ex- 
 penses. 
 
 The College year will be divided into two terms of twenty 
 weeks each, with two vacations of six weeks each, beginning, 
 severally, about the twentieth of January and of July. 
 
 This College will be distinguished from others by giving 
 prominence to studies suited to qualify its graduates for dis- 
 charging the practical duties of life, and to means of elevating 
 labor. 
 
 The College is situated on a farm of 200 acres, adjoining the 
 village of Havana (within a few hundred rods of the centre 
 of the village, in the near vicinity of churches, post-office, 
 stores, hotels, &c.), and suitable work-shops are to be attached. 
 Here, then, the student, who determines to become a farmer or 
 a mechanic, may study agriculture by laboring on the farm, 
 
under the direction of a practical scientific farmer, from two 
 to four hours of each of five days in every week, or may pur- 
 sue the business of his choice, under a practical mechanic, for 
 the same number of hours ; and devote the remaining portion 
 of each day to such branches of study as are most essentially 
 necessary to the future business of his life; or to the common 
 and higher branches of a literary course. 
 
 With the aid of machinery and material, it is believed, that 
 students in the mechanical department may not only become 
 better mechanics in the same term of apprenticeship, than at 
 our shops as now conducted, and obtain the education so essen- 
 tial to their future success in life, but that they may, from the 
 avails of their labor, defray a large proportion, if not all, the 
 expenses incurred in the course ; obtaining thus the satisfac- 
 tion to know, that they have worked their way through col- 
 lege, got a trade, and have been graduated independent men. 
 And the same remarks, with no modification in the principle, 
 will apply to students in the agricultural department. 
 
 Here, likewise, persons of mature life, and such as do not 
 desire to pursue a regular course of study in the college, either 
 the more extended or an abbreviated course, may resort to 
 secure the advantages of the regular courses of Lectures on 
 Agricultural Chemistry, Geology, Mechanics, and the Sciences 
 generally (providing the means of doing it, if they choose, by 
 working on the farm or in the shops), and become familiar with 
 those branches of science most essential in their respective 
 avocations. 
 
 Motives which have Prompted to the Organization of the 
 Institution. 
 a. The belief that moneys which will be expended on this 
 Institution, would not, without its existence, be used to pro- 
 mote the cause of learning, and that many of the youth who 
 will be educated here would never find a place within other 
 college walls.* 
 
 * There have already been- some three hundred applications made by young men, for ad- 
 mission to this College, when it shall be opened for their reception, not Ufty of whom would 
 ever apply for admission to one of our older Colleges. 
 
b. The fact that the important work to be done in this country 
 to sustain our various institutions, political, civil, domestic 
 and religious, and to advance civilization, is, to educate the 
 
 PEOPLE. 
 
 c. The belief that a modification of the college system of this 
 country is required, to adapt it more perfectly to the wants of 
 the time. 
 
 There has been a vast extension of the physical sciences 
 within the last fifty years : Agriculture is now reduced to a 
 science, and the principles of Mechanics have been applied to 
 Machinery, to the extent so astonishing, that the people of 
 England perform daily, by means of it, what it would require 
 six hundred millions of men to effect. 
 
 d. The complete success of Seminaries, established in Euro- 
 pean countries, for the promotion of the sciences and useful 
 arts, on plans similar to that of the People's College. 
 
 e. Institutions of this character, it is perceived, generally 
 established, would perfect our common school system, by 
 affording all an opportunity of continuing their education 
 while learning a trade or pursuing agriculture ; thus remedy- 
 ing the great evil which now compels a large proportion of our 
 youth to discontinue their scientific and literary education at 
 the age of twelve or fourteen years, in order to become farmers 
 or mechanics. 
 
 f. If young men can partially defray their expenses at an 
 Institution of this nature, then it presents inducements for those 
 who are indigent, and who are influenced by religious motives, 
 to avail themselves of its advantages, — thus relieving other 
 educational associations of their proffered benevolence. Many, 
 who are prominent, in this and foi'eign lands, for their Christian 
 philanthropy, have been educated on principles similar to this, 
 and are indebted to their mechanical skill, no less than to their 
 mental and religious culture, for their widely extended influ- 
 ence. 
 
 g. The Hon. Charles Cook, who resides in the village of Ha- 
 
vana, the site of the College, has signified his purpose to bestow 
 upon the Institution a large proportion of his ample estate. 
 
 Moral Instruction. 
 This College is located on a farm in the country, removed 
 from the corrupting influences of large cities. The society 
 will be composed of the Professors in the various departments 
 and their families, together with the families of such as may 
 locate in the immediate vicinity, for the purpose of educating 
 their children, and the people of Havana, a village of about 
 fifteen hundred inhabitants. Students will, therefore, be sur- 
 rounded by a healthful and moral influence and restraint, and 
 every effort, suggested by Revelation, a knowledge of the hu- 
 man mind, and experience, will be made to give them a high- 
 toned moral training. 
 
 Physical Education. 
 By a law of nature, it is made necessary that the young 
 should have regular daily exercise, in a pure and healthful at- 
 mosphere, to properly develop the human system, and to estab- 
 lish such a strong and vigorous constitution as will enable 
 them to endure severe physical or mental labor, without 
 permanently injuring health. This important branch of educa- 
 tion is, from the necessity of the case, almost entirely omitted 
 in our Colleges and higher Seminaries, and the result is, that 
 many of the most diligent students graduate with an enfeebled 
 constitution or broken health. To remedy this great defect, 
 to elevate labor, and enable the poor to avail themselves of 
 advantages heretofore chiefly enjoyed by the wealthy, our 
 charter requires students to devote two hours each, of five 
 days in every week, to bona fide labor, in some branch of pro- 
 ductive industry. 
 
 Progress of the Work. 
 
 The College was organized on the 12th day of August, 185*1. 
 The main edifice, which is 216 feet long, 52 feet wide, and 4 
 and 5 stories high, above the basement, together with a rere- 
 ward projection from the centre, 70 feet long by 64 wide, and 
 
three stories high, is erected, and will be soon ready for the re- 
 ception of students. 
 
 A President and three Professors have been appointed. 
 
 The cost of the College edifice, when finished, is estimated 
 at $115,000. $300,000 will be required as a fund for the sup- 
 port of Professors, and from $75,000 to $100,000 for the erec- 
 tion of shops, purchase of machinery, apparatus, library, cabi- 
 nets, &c. A considerable proportion of this sum will be 
 covered by Mr. Cook's subscription, and that will be largely in- 
 creased by what has been promised by others ; but there is a 
 broad margin still to be filled, and an opportunity thus afforded 
 for all who are disposed to co-operate in consummating this 
 great and benevolent undertaking. 
 
 Situation and Access. 
 
 Havana is situated at the head of Seneca Lake, on the Che- 
 mung Eailroad, which connects the villages of Elmira and 
 Canandaigua. The Chemung Canal, also, passes through the 
 place. The site is uncommonly picturesque and pleasing, as 
 well as convenient of access from all parts of the country. 
 
 Passing, now, from this brief exposition of our purposes 
 and plans, we solicit from all, a careful examination of our 
 Charter ; and, if convinced that our plans are practicable, 
 and, when carried out, will stimulate to a mox'e general eifort 
 to obtain the advantages of mental discipline and useful 
 knowledge, and will afford to many the benefits of an educa- 
 tion, who, but for the College, could never obtain them, we ask 
 them, as philanthropists, to lend their influence and " material 
 aid" to complete the work ; for, if such an Institution is 
 desirable, why shall it not be, at once, built and endowed ? 
 
 Portions of the Charter as Amended by the Regents of the 
 University. 
 
 Section 1. The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this 
 State, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and the Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction shall severally (in addition to 
 the President of the said College, as already provided for) be ex 
 
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 officio members of the Board of Trustees of the said College. 
 There shall be tiventy-four Trustees of the said College, exclu- 
 sive of the ex officio Trustees ; and the present Board of Trustees, 
 with the ex officio Trustees above named, shall continue to be 
 the Trustees of the said College without any further election. 
 The said Board of Trustees and their successors are authorized 
 to fill all vacancies which may from time to time occur in their 
 number, by death, resignation, or otherwise. 
 
 Section 2. The fourth section* of the said charter is hereby 
 amended by adding thereto as follows: " Nor shall any real 
 estate of the College bo leased for a term exceeding three 
 years, nor shall any by-laws of the Board of Trustees be re- 
 pealed or amended, or any new by-law be adopted unless by 
 the same vote." 
 
 Section 3. There shall be an annual meeting of the said 
 Trustees, at the College, at such time as they may by their 
 standing by-laws prescribe ; on which day, the persons who 
 have contributed to the funds of the said College, and who are 
 designated in the said Charter as stockholders, and who hold 
 or are entitled to certificates of the character hereinafter men- 
 tioned, may also hold a meeting at the said College, and appoint 
 a committee of their number, not exceeding five, who shall have 
 power to examine into the condition of the said College, its 
 course of instruction, its finances, and all other matters per- 
 taining to its welfare, and to report on the same to the Trustees, 
 with any i-ecommendations they may deem proper. A copy of 
 every such report shall be transmitted by the Trustees to the 
 Regents of the University with their annual report to the Re- 
 gents, and the said Trustees shall state what action, if any, has 
 been had on the said report, and in case they have declined to 
 adopt the recommendations thereof, either wholly or in part, 
 they shall state their reasons for so doing. 
 
 Section 4. The capital stock of the said corporation, as es- 
 
 *^4. The said Board of Trustees shall appoint the President, Professors, and such other 
 offlcors and instructors as they deem nc^ssary; but no President, Professor, or other officer 
 of the College shall bo appointed or removed, and no real estate bought or sold, except by a 
 vote of two-thirds of the members of the Board. 
 
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 tablished by the 'sixth section of the Charter, shall hereafter be 
 divided into shares of fifty dollars each: and every person who 
 shall heretofore have contributed, or who may hereafter con- 
 tribute at least that amount to the funds of the Institution, 
 shall be entitled to receive a certificate therefor, in substan- 
 tially the following form: 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK : 
 
 It is hereby certified that AB has contributed dollars 
 
 to the funds of "The People's College," an institution char- 
 tered by the Legislature of the State of New York, on the 
 twelfth day of April, 1853; in virtue of which contribution the 
 said A B has become a stockholder in the said Institution to 
 
 that amount, representing shares of fifty dollars each, 
 
 which will entitle the said stockholder to one vote on each of 
 the said shares actually held by him, at all meetings of the 
 said stockholders. The said stock is transferable on the books 
 of the said corporation in such manner as may be provided by 
 its by-laws. 
 
 In witness whereof, the President and Treasurer (or other pro- 
 per officers) of the said College have hereunto subscribed their 
 names this day of . 
 
 No person, unless he holds or is entitled to a certificate of 
 the character aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote at the annual 
 meeting of the contributors hereinbefore provided for; and 
 every person shall be entitled at any such meeting to one vote 
 for every fifty dollars contributed by him. The four ex officio 
 Trustees, hereinbefore appointed, shall be the representatives 
 of all persons who have contributed to the said College smaller 
 amounts than fifty dollars each : and they, or any or either of 
 them, may attend any such meeting as aforesaid, and vote on 
 the aggregate contributions to the said College of less than 
 fifty dollars, each in like manner as other contributors. The 
 said Trustees may accept contributions to the said College 
 to an amount not exceeding One Million of dollars in the ag- 
 gregate, to be considered as stock under the Charter as afore- 
 
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 said, and for which certificates may be issued of the form above 
 provided for. 
 
 Section 5. The said Trustees may organize the said College, 
 and establish a course of instruction therein, as soon as they 
 shall deem the same advisable, and may also make such by- 
 laws as they shall deem proper in relation to the management 
 of the said Institution, and the course of instruction therein, 
 in the several particulars specified in the eighth section of the 
 Charter, and particularly as to the persons who shall actually 
 perform labor in some branch of productive industry, and the 
 time they shall so labor, and the terms on which students shall 
 be permitted to graduate ; provided such by-laws be not 
 inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the charter, 
 as to which the said Regents may determine, should any ques- 
 tion arise in regard thereto. The fourth subdivision of the said 
 eighth section of the Charter is hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 6. The Regents may, at anytime, alter, amend, or 
 repeal this ordinance. 
 
 TRU.STEES OF THE COIiLEGE. 
 
 Amos Brown, LL. D., President of the College. ] 
 
 Edwin D. Morgan, Governor of the State. i 
 
 Robert Campbell, Lieutenant Governor of the State. I Ex-Officio Members. 
 
 De Witt C. Littlejoiin, Speaker of the Assembly. 
 
 Henry H. Van Dyke, Sup't of Public Instruction. J 
 
 Daniel S. Dickinson, LL. D., Binghamton, Ch'n of Board. 
 
 Charles Cook, Havana, Secretary. 
 
 Washington Hunt, Lockport. 
 
 Constant Cook, Bath. 
 
 Horace Greeley, New York. 
 
 Asa D. Smith, D. D., New York. 
 
 Erastus Brooks, New York. 
 
 D. C. McCallom, New York. 
 Edwin B. Morgan, Aurora. 
 Thomas Hillhouse, Geneva. 
 A. B. Dickinson, Hornby. 
 
 ■ Thurlow Weed, Albany. 
 John Magee, Bath. 
 
 E. C. Frost, Montour. 
 Geo. J. PusiPELLEY, Owego. 
 
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 T. E. Morgan, Binghamton. 
 A. I. Wynkoop, Chemung. 
 KoswELL HoLDEN, Reading. 
 David Rees, Owego. 
 S. Robertson, Ithaca. 
 George D. Beers, Ithaca. 
 C. J. Chatfield, Painted Post. 
 W. H. Banks, Pine Valley. 
 Joseph Carson, Burdett. 
 
 T. L. MiNiER, Esq., Havana, Treasurer. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Hon. Charles Cook, Havana. 
 
 Hon. Constant Cook, Bath. , 
 
 Hon. Thomas Hillhouse, Geneva. 
 Hon. Lucius Robinson, Elmira. 
 Hon. A. B. Dickinson, Hornby. 
 Rev. F. G. HiBBARD, D. D., Canandaigua. 
 ' Rev. Amos Brown, LL. D., Havana. 
 
 PROFESSORS ELECT. 
 
 Rev. Amos Brown, LL. D., President of the College, 
 F. G. HiBBARD, D. D., 
 
 Timothy H. Porter, 
 William W. Folwell. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESSES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE 
 FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTION. 
 
 " Sir, I go heartily with this Institution in its attempt to 
 solve the problem of a right combination of physical with 
 mental labor, and of both, so far as possible, with self- 
 support. 
 
 " The great object of a People's College, and one that would 
 justify any outlay, is to unite, in the same person, the hands 
 that do the working with the head that does the thinking. It 
 is the mastery of nature by science, and then the intelligent 
 application of science, with and without mechanism, to the pur- 
 poses of human life. It is one great feature of this age, that 
 mechanism and science are in such intimate combination with 
 
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 all our industrial products and pursuits." — Rev. 3Iark Hopkins, 
 D. D., President of Williams College, at the laying of the Corner- 
 stone of the College. 
 
 " Out of this impulse, so wise, so benevolent, so accordant 
 with Christianity — born of it, indeed — so harmonious with all 
 our political economies, this Collcg-e has grown. In its adapta- 
 tions of science to all popular uses ; in the choices of study it 
 will afford ; in its gratuitous provisions ; in its facilities for 
 self-support ; in its mechanical and ag-ricultural models ; in 
 the opening of its lectures to men of all classes ; in the con- 
 nection and fellowship it proposes, of minds in the lower pro- 
 cesses of culture with those in the higher ; the noble design is 
 to make it in deed just what it is in name. While its lights 
 shall gleam upon the summits of society — in a peculiar sense 
 it may be said — there is no vale so lowly but shall be glad- 
 dened by it. 
 
 " One of its most praiseworthy offices shall be, to draw from 
 obscurity 
 
 ' Many a gem of purest ray serene.' 
 
 " Let this goodly enterprise go onwai'd 1 Let nothing stay 
 it ; let all lend it a helping hand. It has had, thus far, not 
 only the increasing favor of the community at large, but the 
 manifest smile of a benignant Providence." — Sev. Asa D. Smith, 
 D. D., Neio York. 
 
 " Let each contribute who can, and a Seminary shall here be 
 established which shall prove a blessing — the parent of kindred 
 blessings — to your children and your children's children 
 throughout future time." — Horace Greeley, New York. 
 
 "Sir, the People's College marks a new epocli in the history 
 of education in this country." — Bev. F. G. Hibhard, D. D. 
 
 "I bid 'God-speed' to the College, and the liberal minds 
 whose influence and money are rearing its walls above the 
 foundation, this day commenced." — Hon. A. S. Diven, Elmira. 
 
 " The People's College is of the people, and for the peo- 
 ple, and will be sustained by the people.". — Ex-Governor Clark. 
 
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 " If rightly conducted, the People's College will inaugurate 
 a new era in moral and physical science, and will give firm- 
 ness as well as harmony and beauty to the social structure : 
 it will quicken the pulsations of society, and leap from the 
 old cumbrous system which has ministered only to the few, to 
 a system which will, in its fertilizing influences, cheer and 
 bless the many." — Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, LL. D. 
 
 " Called upon to speak for the Colleges of Western New 
 York, I would say, that these Colleges feel no jealousy 
 towards the People's College. Its plans and aims are widely 
 different, and there need be no interference or invidious com- 
 petition. The mass to be educated is vast enough to absorb 
 the energies, and occupy, to the utmost, the best appliances 
 of all." — Rev. Dr. Jackson, President of Hohart Free College. 
 
 " We mingle our joyful congratulations over such a vigor- 
 ous and promising addition to the great family of Colleges 
 and Universities of our State." — Eev. Dr. Cowles, President of 
 Elmira Female College. 
 
 " In conclusion, I do but express the prayer of the thou- 
 sand hearts before me, when I say, ' Heaven bless the People's 
 College,' and may it shed a mild and enduring glory upon the 
 ages to come !" — Rev. William H. Goodwin, D.D. 
 
 " It is truly an important addition to the educational sys- 
 tem of our State. It opens a new and inviting avenue to the 
 higher walks of science and learning, and will afford the 
 means of mental culture and development to hundreds of our 
 young men, whom nature has endowed with intellect and 
 genius, while withholding the advantages of fortune. I can- 
 not but regard it as one of the most laudable and judicious 
 efforts of the day, for the diffusion of knowledge, and the im- 
 provement of the rising generation. The appeals which you 
 propose to make to the community, for aid and support, can 
 scarcely fail to call forth a generous response. It would be 
 impossible to present an object more worthy of public favor." 
 — Washington Hunt. 
 
 " In the People's College at Havana, the State is to have 
 
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 an Institution worthy of public and private endowment and 
 munificence." — Thurlow Weed. 
 
 Ellersbe, Rhinebeck, 9th Aug., 1858. 
 Dear Sir : — I acknowledge, with thanks, your polite invi- 
 tation to be present at Havana on the interesting occasion of 
 laying the corner-stone of the People's College, an event which 
 must give pleasure to every friend of practical education in 
 the State, and upon which you havQ my cordial congratula- 
 tions. 
 
 With much respect, I am your obedient servant, 
 
 WILLIAM KELLY. 
 Eev. a. Brown, President. 
 
 Contributions in aid of the College are solicited on condi- 
 tions, as follows : 
 
 The sums subscribed for the purpose aforesaid shall be, by 
 the Trustees, safely invested in the Stock of some one of the 
 States of this Union, or of the United States, or in Bonds and 
 Mortgages on improved, unincumbered real estate, within the 
 State of New York ; which real estate shall have been 
 appraised, by disinterested men, to be worth double the amount 
 loaned upon it, exclusive of buildings and perishable improve- 
 ments. 
 
 On the payment of the money subscribed, and the acceptance 
 of it by the Trustees of the College, the two acts shall be 
 regarded as a contract between the Trustees and the party 
 paying the money, which shall be obligatory upon the succes- 
 sors of the one, and the heirs and legal representatives of the 
 other, binding each to the other in all of the conditions here- 
 inbefore stated. 
 
 Any person, disposed to contribute to this important object, 
 may make payment to any authorized agent of the College, or 
 may forward their subscriptions to Ex-Governor MyRON H, 
 Clark, No. 16 Wall street ; Hon. Erastus Brooks, Express office, 
 on Park place, New York city ; or to the Treasurer of the Col- 
 lege. 
 
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