Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - The Land Grant Tradition (1961) [PAGE 7]

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rid endow colli • w h bin reach < i .-ill Americi > Actually, there is credit enough for both to -r, ( \fter In- talk at Iri ille, Turner worki 'I hard to promote sentiment for his idea ol a peopli col1 e, especially in the Midwest; Morrill, as a Con« man from \ ermont. \ the drivi force that ventually pushed the bill through (longress. It ig the Morrill Act which is being commemorated across the land in this, its centennial yi r. It is the act which a task force report ol th Hoover Commission in 1949 called "the most effective grant-in-aid ever made by the Federal ov• nniicht." It is the :t which created the colli i and universities that enroll one in fivi oi the nation's collegi tudents, that nt 10 per c nt of all < doctoral d i . that tram half of all of th( < regular and reserve offi = enterii the armed >rces, that edu< I twenty of the thirty-eight livii. Nobel Prize winners who attended colli in this country. And it i- this act which led to the A COLLAPSED CEILING IN 1938 LED TO TMC HALL. THE M A I N BUILDING FOR MANY YEARS creation ol the I University of fllinois. In 1863 the [llinois Legislature unanimously ptrd the Morrill Act, under winch the state re- unfinisl I buildin in the irs eived 480,000 acri of land scrip to found a uni- nniddv that fi 1 I - when i E ivi i • i la ' r, alter se\ era! communities rubber Sin that modi had coi nded for »l i tte, the stat< universit inc was its home and \ :i I with an enrollment ol about fifty youn un lown men rid a staff of thi I ch<r and a head armi It. v. called [llinoi Industrial I taivereit} bathrob and ali rs. I I name umil 1885. and it i ome was a ingle \n I uslj

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