sentences:  However, the institution was already struggling financially.When Kansas was admitted to the United States in 1861, one of the first things the new state Legislature planned to do was to establish a state university.After two years of political wrangling, on February 16, 1863, the state accepted Manhattan's offer to donate the Blue Mont College building and grounds, and established the state's Land-grant university at the site – the institution that would become Kansas State University.