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Caption: Course Catalog - 1892-1893
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. The University of Illinois has its seat in Champaign county, in the eastern central part of the state, between the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, within the corporate limits of the latter. It is one hundred and twenty-eight miles southward from Chicago, at the junction of the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Wabash railways. The situation is a beautiful one and the "art that doth mend nature " has added rare charms to the grounds and surroundings. The country around is one of the richest and most prosperous agricultural regions of the world, and the local municipalities, with a combined population of 11,000, are noted for public spirit and high moral tone. Unlike most of the states admitted into the Union after its formation, Illinois had no state university during the early years of its history. The attempts made from time to time to found one were not successful in the legislature. But at length a number of public spirited citizens, conspicuous among whom was Professor J. B. Turner, of Jacksonville, vigorously agitated the question and earnestly advocated the establishment by the state of an institution in which instruction might be given '' upon all those studies and sciences of whatever sort which tend to throw light upon any art or employment which any student may desire to master, or upon any duty which he may be called to perform, or which may tend to secure his moral, civil, social and industrial perfection as a man.1' These ideas were embodied in a bill introduced in the General Assembly in 1855, but owing to the late position on the calendar the bill failed to become a law. In the meantime the same parties in Illinois, uniting with others in different parts of the country, made strenuous efforts to secure aid from the national government. These efforts culminated in 1862 in an act giving to each state public land scrip apportioned in quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in congress, "for the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, whose 12
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