An Address on the University of Illinois
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Excerpt from An Address on the University of Illinois: Before the Association of Officers of State of Officers of State Institutions at the Executive Mansion, Springfield, Illinois April 8, 1903 The people of Illinois established the University upon which they bestowed the name of their State. They did not merely empower a corporation to set up a University; they set up one for themselves; they did it to promote purposes of their own; they did it through their General Assembly, which upon matters educational exercises sovereign power. They were moved to do this at the time they did because of the National Land-Grant Act of 1862. This Act had been an issue between the aggressiveness of the west and the conservatism of the east for years. It had been once passed by Congress to be vetoed by an eastern President. Their own Lincoln had favored it; it was fitting that his hand should give it life. It was an epoch making statute in world education. It grew out of the natural trend of a democratic society unparalleled in the freedom of its thought and the forcefulness of its doing. The men and women of the Upper Mississippi Valley of forty years ago had descended from New England and New York and Pennsylvania stock, and well knew the influence of the advanced schools, but they had been limbered up by western life, and dared to believe that the operations of the colleges ought to guide the thinking of freemen towards the great ends for which democracies are set up, and that the schools should have something to do with the hand-work as well as with the sophistry and the religion of a people. There was no educational anarchism, only freedom, about this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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