Semi-centennial History of the University of Illinois, Volume 1University of Illinois, 1918 |
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... organized on sound democratic self- governing lines ; and there is no limit to the contributions to human civilization and welfare which the students of such a university , properly trained for their work as students , properly inspired ...
... organized on sound democratic self- governing lines ; and there is no limit to the contributions to human civilization and welfare which the students of such a university , properly trained for their work as students , properly inspired ...
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... organized and established . The notion had so far progressed as to be admitted into the circle of respectable pro ... organized . Still others stood stanch for new colleges , organized for the express purpose of teaching farmers . ' Ibid ...
... organized and established . The notion had so far progressed as to be admitted into the circle of respectable pro ... organized . Still others stood stanch for new colleges , organized for the express purpose of teaching farmers . ' Ibid ...
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... organized in nineteen counties . Most of them held annual meetings connected with cattle shows and fairs during the autumn of the year . There was also the Union agricul- tural society embracing within its corporate limits nine coun ...
... organized in nineteen counties . Most of them held annual meetings connected with cattle shows and fairs during the autumn of the year . There was also the Union agricul- tural society embracing within its corporate limits nine coun ...
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... organized in 1841 and by the next year had a membership of several hundred . At its fair held in the village of Aurora in October , 1842 , from five to seven thousand people congregated for no other purpose than to witness the ...
... organized in 1841 and by the next year had a membership of several hundred . At its fair held in the village of Aurora in October , 1842 , from five to seven thousand people congregated for no other purpose than to witness the ...
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... organized with the following permanent offi- cers : Mr. Oaks Turner of Hennepin , president ; Mr. William Reddick of Ottawa and Mr. J. B. Turner , vice - presidents ; Mr. M. Osman of Ottawa , recording secretary ; Mr. Ralph Ware of Gran ...
... organized with the following permanent offi- cers : Mr. Oaks Turner of Hennepin , president ; Mr. William Reddick of Ottawa and Mr. J. B. Turner , vice - presidents ; Mr. M. Osman of Ottawa , recording secretary ; Mr. Ralph Ware of Gran ...
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35TH CONGRESS acres agri agricul agricultural and mechanical agricultural college agricultural society agriculturists annual appointed appropriation bill Bloomington board of trustees Bronson Murray building Champaign county Chicago citizens committee common schools congress convention corporation course culture donation Dunlap elected endowment establishment faculty farm favor February February 16 friends Governor Granville Gregory Griggs hereby honorable horticultural hundred Illinois Central Railroad Illinois State University industrial classes industrial education industrial league industrial university institution instruction interest J. B. Turner Jacksonville January Jesse Fell John Kennicott labor land grant lectures legislature letter McLean county mechanic arts meeting ment military tactics Morgan county Morrill offered organized petition Pike county practical Prairie Farmer present President Professor proposed public lands purpose pursuits regent representatives resolutions Resolved scrip secretary seminary fund senate session Springfield teachers thousand dollars tion tural Turner manuscripts Urbana versity vote
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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...