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well done lor the sum named. What a day of rejoicing there would be if an alumnus should in this way make himself known and read of all men. The chance is too good to be open very long. Surely some one will recognize t h i s and act accordingly. There are numerous other and very desirable and entirely feasible projects which should engage the attention and energy (A' those having the welfare of the institution at heart, but which must be passed here with mere mention. A woman's gymnasium ought to be at once provided, no matt r what else is done for women. A building must be had for a museum. An auditorium capable of suitably accommodating twenty-five hundred people, furnished with tinfacilities for illustrated lectures, containing a good pipe organ, etc.. ought to be provided without unreasonable delay. The College of Agriculture needs a building for its own purposes, and a separate building and equipment for the p r e p a r a t o r y school is a pressing necessity. A college of law can be and ought to be established here, and a colli . • of me Licine should be provided in Chicago in organic affi] ition with the University. There are good reasons naking the S t a t e Normal Universities d e p a r t m e n t s of University of Illinois, but at all events there should be dished here a school o\' research in pedagogics which should also offer ample opportunities for students of other alties to fit themselves thoroughly as teachers o\ such • l < Laities. All these t h i n g s a n d others like them are nom >> too [rood or too mueh to hope for. They and more than thes<

ar< attainable and within the bounds i)( reasonable effort, if the required effori is wisely directed and unanimously supported. They arc for (he future no more than ha\ e been the things already a< i omplished for t he past, Bu1 beyond anything and everything which mom \ i an pp in or thai friends can contribute, there is one pp ii