Editing Ohio State University (section)

==== 1870–1899 Foundational era ====
[[File:University Hall (Ohio State University).jpg|thumb|[[University Hall (Ohio State University)|University Hall]] was the first building on campus, built in 1873 and reconstructed in 1976]]
The proposal of a manufacturing and agriculture university in central Ohio was initially met in the 1870s with hostility from the state's agricultural interests and competition for resources from [[Ohio University]], which was chartered by the [[Northwest Ordinance]] and [[Miami University]].<ref name=":4">{{cite web|last=Berdahl |first=Robert M. |url=http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/sp/flagship.htm |title=Discussion of "Flagship Universities" by UC-Berkeley Chancellor Berdahl |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=October 5, 1998 |access-date=October 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511120058/http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/sp/flagship.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2011 }}</ref> Championed by the [[Republican Party (U.S.)|Republican]] governor [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], the Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a [[land-grant university]] under the [[Morrill Act of 1862]] as the '''Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College'''.<ref name=":4" />

The university opened its doors to 24 students on September 17, 1873. In 1878, the first class of six men graduated. The first woman graduated the following year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ohio State History and Traditions|url=https://news.osu.edu/history.html|publisher=The Ohio State University|access-date=July 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216131558/http://news.osu.edu/history.html|archive-date=February 16, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Also in 1878, the Ohio legislature recognized an expanded scope for the university by changing its name to "the Ohio State University."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.osu.edu/find/collections/the-ohio-state-university-archives/buckeye-history/faqs#1 |title= Why are we called "THE" Ohio State University"? |work=FAQs |publisher=The Ohio State University Libraries |date=February 21, 2014 |quote=The statute has quote marks, and states "shall be known and designated hereafter as 'The Ohio State University{{'"}}.|access-date=September 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815234443/http://library.osu.edu/find/collections/the-ohio-state-university-archives/buckeye-history/faqs/#1|archive-date=August 15, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="arl.org">The government of Ohio, in its official web site listing the state's compiled laws: "3335.01 The Ohio State University. The educational institution originally designated as the Ohio agricultural and mechanical college shall be known as "The Ohio State University"." http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3335</ref>