Excerpt from Souvenir Edition of the Ohio University Bulletin: Summer Term, 1915 Two years after the passage of the act re ferred to-ohio having in the meantime been admitted into the Union - the State Legislature re-enacted the provisions of the Territorial Act, with but few changes, by another act dated February 18, 1804. This latter act, which gave the name Ohio University to the. Institution to be established, has ever been regarded as the charter of Ohio University. The institution thus provided for was opened to students in the spring of 1808, when Reverend Jacob Lindley, a Princeton graduate, was put in charge of its educational work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.