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Caption: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931)
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(Fniversitv of a re I .; State H of opportun fth e unctions of the American Commonwealth. 'I heir history is as <Id that of the N Ition. The first • >! them dc loped in the older states as a part of that democratic ferm. of ideas that produced, among other thin: the Am. Revolution, :md that brought a new nation into In states like the Carolinas, Geor ui, and \ lrginia, they I -, phy of education th it was inrepresented a herent in the thinking of the founders of the .Nation. As the new Nation expanded, they found their place in th formed from the f others since. I n d in m old Northwest Tei Some of them, like the University of Illinois, were s ulated by the original land grants of the Federal ernment. Others are of still more recent founda We have never believed, we American-, that ther e should be any sort of government monopoly on higher lb. education. We have held that the field was free for for church, and other agencies. benevol The result has been the happy one that 1 many sorts, with various conceptions of c: ' have grown up together, have influenc 1 1j each other to agreement or to diff ther i It \k that even in spite of the somet IS 1 e toward educational orthodot 1 dard characteristic of the period now passing our colleges and iversifies arc • not altogether of one rigid and moil Among all these varieties of institutions, the lame state_ universities like that of Illinois occup) i\ peculiar sure, a real sense in which thev are like all other large and complex universities There are many old and well-tried fundamentals with which no university, however founded or maintained, can dispense and remain a university. There must be in all real universities freedom to teach and to investi a: There must not be interference from with ut in m; ttci f control and : KJl i g 11X1*4 S-\SM.*<J *_*»_»»» ^ * ~ • . • * * . V U)
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