THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR COMMENCING SEPT, 13, 1869, AND CLOSING JUNE 4, 1870. WITH A REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS, AT CHAMPAIGN, CENTRALIA AND ROCKFORD, Etc. SPRINGFIELD: STATE JOURNAL PRINTING OFFICE. 21 5241 "If the great benefits of scientific training are sought, it is essential that such learning should be real-that is to say, that the mind of the scholar should be brought into direct relation with the fact; that he should not merely be told a thing, but made to see, by his own intellect and ability, that the thing is so, and not otherwise."-Huxley. "Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling that this is the original calling of his race; that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstance which made him delegate it for a time to other hands. If he have not some skill which recommends him to the farmer, some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters. And the profession has, in all eyes, its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause." "Our nineteenth century is the age of tools."-Emerson. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD, 1870-1. President, ex-officio-JOHN M. GREGORY, Regent of the University, Champaign. Treasurer-JOHN W. BUNN, Springfield. Corresponding Secretary-W. C. FLAGG, Champaign and Alton. Recording Secretary-PROF. W. F. BLISS, Champaign. Executive Committee-REGENT, COBB, A. M. BROWN, PICKRELL, CUNNINGHAMm, Griggs, GOLTRA, LAWRENCE, WRIGHT. Agricultural Committee-PICKRELL, Johnson, Allen, Kile, Blackburn. Horticultural Committee-A. M. BROWN, PULLEN, GALUSHA, PEARSON, Dunlap. By-Laws Committee-BURROUGHS, MAHAN, Brayman. Faculty and Course of Study-REGent, Bateman, Hayes, Pickard, Edwards, Slade. |