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Caption: Dedication - Talbot Lab
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SOME EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING S have elapsed since the opening of the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois, and within that period many scores of persons have shared in its development. It is obviously impossible, within the space here available, to deal adequately with the whole period, or even to mention any considerable number of those who have contributed to the College as we now know it. This sketch is therefore limited to a presentation of the progress of the first two decades (1868-1890)—the formative period with which but few are at all familiar — followed by very brief notice of some of the more i m p o r t a n t steps taken during the subsequent fifty years. The University of Illinois was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly of the State on February 28, 1867. This action was taken under the terms of an act of the Federal Congress, known as the "Morrill Land Grant," whereby the national government was empowered to give to each state in the Union public land scrip equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in Congress "for the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college whose 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 — in order to promote the liberal and classical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life." [Instruction was actually begun in the University on March 2, 1868.] By the original act of the General Assembly the institution was called the "Illinois Industrial University" and it continued to be so styled until 1885 when its name was changed to the "University of Illinois." In addition to the original endowment EVENTY YEARS . 9 -
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