Semi-centennial History of the University of Illinois, Volume 1University of Illinois, 1918 |
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... Chicago Committee at Home 475 477 Report of Champaign county committee in re- gard to Bloomington Con- vention ... 481 Offers by various counties .. 485 Report of Decatur Commit- tee on Location of Uni- versity Document No. 20 History ...
... Chicago Committee at Home 475 477 Report of Champaign county committee in re- gard to Bloomington Con- vention ... 481 Offers by various counties .. 485 Report of Decatur Commit- tee on Location of Uni- versity Document No. 20 History ...
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... Chicago and North- western , and in each of these institutions , and in many others too , some departments and in some cases several departments have been almost ruined by a policy of flagrant nepotism . Of all forms of illegitimate ...
... Chicago and North- western , and in each of these institutions , and in many others too , some departments and in some cases several departments have been almost ruined by a policy of flagrant nepotism . Of all forms of illegitimate ...
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... Chicago : " That was a sort of ' backfiring ' such as is practiced upon the prairies when the burning grass is too tall and dry , and so far as we know amounts to little or nothing in meeting the demand . " Jonathan B. Turner was still ...
... Chicago : " That was a sort of ' backfiring ' such as is practiced upon the prairies when the burning grass is too tall and dry , and so far as we know amounts to little or nothing in meeting the demand . " Jonathan B. Turner was still ...
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... Chicago , November 24th . The President very magnanimously invites all who are in favor of devoting ' the College and Seminary Funds ' to the immediate creation of a free University , to attend , assuring them if sound . on this point ...
... Chicago , November 24th . The President very magnanimously invites all who are in favor of devoting ' the College and Seminary Funds ' to the immediate creation of a free University , to attend , assuring them if sound . on this point ...
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... Chicago , ob- jects to the plan of limiting the delegates in Convention to those who are in favor of using the College and Seminary funds for the establishment of a State University . Now we cannot see the wrong in leaving this matter ...
... Chicago , ob- jects to the plan of limiting the delegates in Convention to those who are in favor of using the College and Seminary funds for the establishment of a State University . Now we cannot see the wrong in leaving this matter ...
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Page 567 - ... section of this act, or the grant to such state shall cease; and said state shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the state- shall be valid. Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results...
Page 566 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease...
Page ix - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 584 - Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished. Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the Government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act.
Page 582 - States; but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents or less per acre.
Page 583 - ... the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 582 - ... of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act...
Page 583 - That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Page 565 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 473 - State was then entitled for the "endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...