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 480 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Said by-laws shall provide for annual meetings, the first of which shall be held within one year from the date of these articles of incorporation. 4. The location of the university and of the college of arts to be established by said corporation shall be in Chicago, in the county of Cook, and state of Illinois. 5. The following persons are hereby selected as trustees to control and manage said corporation for the first year of its corporate existence, to wit: E. Nelson Blake, Ferd. W. Peck, Judge Joseph M. Bailey, Herman H. Kohlsaat, Francis E. Hinckley, Charles L. Hutchinson, Prof. Wm. R. Harper, Eli B. Felsenthal, Hon. George A. Pillsbury, Martin A. Ryerson, Edward Goodman, Judge Daniel L. Shorey, Alonzo K. Parker, D.D., George C. Walker, J. W. Midgley, C. C. Bowen, Andrew MacLeish, Elmer L. Corthell, Fred A. Smith, Henry A. Rust, Charles W. Needham. In testimony whereof we, the incorporators first above named, hereunto set our hands and affix our seals, this i8th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER E. NELSON BLAKE MARSHALL FIELD FRANCIS E. HINCKLEY FRED T. GATES THOMAS W. GOODSPEED Returning now to the eighth resolution: You perceive that the pro- visions of the resolution regarding the number and qualifications of trustees, their terms of office, the qualification of the president, have been embodied in the articles. The prosperity of the institution, no less than its obligations to that denomination under whose auspices it has been created, and which has given by far the larger portion of the funds, require that the qualification of the president and two-thirds of the trustees shall be secured beyond possibility of violation at any time. As a further safeguard, therefore, this qualification will be inserted in the title deed transferring to you the real estate of the institution. The college, however, being of a purely literary and scientific character, is not designed to be sectarian. We have therefore provided in the articles of incorporation that no religious tests shall be required for election to any professorship or other place of honor or emolument. The eighth resolution further requires that the choice of the first board of trustees shall be subject to the approval of our Executive Board. The nominees presented to our board represent the choice of the subscribers to the fund. The list of names approved by our Execu- tive Board, and, as so approved, named by the incorporators according