After a series of delays over the next several decades, the state legislature reinvigorated the project in 1876, calling for the establishment of a "university of the first class."
Ngemva uchungechunge ukubambezeleka ezako amashumi eminyaka,-mthetho sesifundazwe walihlumelelisa kabusha iphrojekthi ngo-1876, obiza ukusungulwa kwesiGungu "inyuvesi ekilasini lokuqala."