The report that Columbia was founded from the proceeds of a lottery, owes its origin to the following: In 1746, the governor of New York approved an act entitled "An act for raising the sum of Sigma250 by a public lottery for this colony, for the encouragement of learning and towards the founding of a college within the same."
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