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Rh Oregon. An endowment of $20,000 was immediately raised from the sale of forty scholarships at $500 each; thus what had been a cow pasture and a wheat field came to be the site of a college community. In 1858, a wooden building was erected at the cost of $5,000 on the present State Normal School grounds; and the name of the school was changed from Monmouth University to Christian College. On account of the inadequacy of the building, President T. F. Campbell secured donations and erected a brick building, at the cost of $16,000, which forms the north wing of the State Normal School Building. In 1882, under the presidency of D. T. Stanley, the name of Christian College was changed to Oregon State Normal School. The buildings and grounds were given to the State for a Normal School free of debt and the gift was accepted by the Legislature of 1891.

Capital Located at Corvallis. All of the following cities have appeared in school geographies as the capitals of Oregon: Oregon City, Salem, Corvallis, and Eugene. We have already learned that the capital was located at Oregon City and then at Salem; and now we are about to see how it happened that Corvallis and Eugene, each in its turn, came nearly being chosen as the permanent capital. January 13, 1855, a bill was passed by the legislature removing the seat of territorial government from Salem to