Caption: Dedication - Harker Hall
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Illinois Industrial Ihmvrsitw prt'dctvssor of the thwvrsitv ofIllinois, rmoll,;!406 students when this view nuts token in IH74front I nitrrsit) Hall. n the beginning, one could hardly have foreseen that a little patch of empty land in central Illinois was destined for greatness. Word spread quickly among the youth of the area when a university education at an affordable cost came to Illinois. Among those young people was a transplanted New Englander by the name of Nathan Clifford Ricker. It was the early 1870s, and a start-up university, like those first students, was feeling the call to greatness. In the Beginning: An. linois Prairie
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