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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF EDUCATION,

Washington, D. C., January 23, 1903.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the History of Higher Education in Colorado, prepared by James Edward Le Rossignol, A. M., Ph. D., professor of history and economics in the University of Denver. The document constitutes Circular of Information No. 1, 1903, and is the thirty-fourth of the series which was prepared under the direction of the late Prof. Herbert B. Adams, of the Johns Hopkins University, and edited by him up to the time of his death.

This history, like others of this series which deal with higher education in the newer States, shows the zeal of the first settlers of these States in establishing all the links of a complete system of education. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. E. A. HITCHCOCK,

W. T. HARRIS,

Commissioner.

Secretary of the Interior.

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CHAPTER I.

COLORADO COLLEGE.

Before the year 1874 many proposals had been made looking to the founding of one or more colleges in the Territory of Colorado. The University of Colorado was incorporated in 1861. The Colorado Seminary was founded in 1864, and continued to exist for several years. An Episcopalian school for boys afterwards known as Jarvis Hall— was established at Golden in the early seventies.

The same desire for educational improvement was shown on July 12, 1871, when the Colorado Springs Company adopted the report of a committee concerning the laying out of a town site for the Fountain Colony. This committee, consisting of Gen. R. A. Cameron, William H. Greenwood, and E. S. Nettleton, recommended that a tract of land one-third of a mile wide and a mile and a half long in the valley of Monument Creek be set aside for educational and other public purposes. Included in this tract was the present college reservation, "which was distinctly set aside by this committee for the founding of a college." This action of the committee was largely owing to the advice and suggestions of Gen. William J. Palmer and Gen. R. A. Cameron.

One of the first proposals to establish a college in Colorado under the auspices of the Congregational Church seems to have been made by Rev. T. N. Haskell, A. M., before the Congregational Conference at Boulder on October 28, 1873. Mr. Haskell was appointed moderator of the conference and chairman of a permanent committee on education "to ascertain what opportunities there are for founding a higher institution of learning in Colorado under Congregational auspices.

The committee immediately took steps to secure offers of land and money from towns desiring to be the seat of a college. Several towns made proposals, including Greeley and Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Company offered to give to the college 70 acres of the reservation above mentioned, together with a block of 20 acres on higher ground and a cash donation of $10,000, on condition that the trustees should raise $40,000 more.

At a meeting of the General Congregational Conference held at Denver on January 20, 1874, Mr. Haskell, as chairman of the com

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