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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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154: WASHINGTON CITY, D. 0., March 1, 1868. DEAR SIR:—Your favor of the 27th ult., inclosing an invitation to the Inauguration of the Illinois Industrial University, is just received. It would afford me great pleasure to be with you on that interesting occasion, but my engagements here will render it impossible for me to leave Washington at the time indicated. Thanking you for the courtesy in extending to me the invitation, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, etc., S. S. MARSHALL. J. M. GREGORY, ESQ., Champaign Illinois. WASHINGTON, D. C , March 4, 1868. J. M. GREGORY, ESQ., Illinois Industrial University, Champaign, Ills.: DEAR SIR:—Yours of the 26th ult., inclosing a card of invitation to attend the inauguration of the Illinois Industrial University, on the 11th inst., was duly received. Feeling a deep interest in the complete success of the enterprise, it would afford me great pleasure to be present and witness the ceremonies of the occasion, and I regret that my duties here will necessarily prevent my attendance. In every country, labor is the foundation of wealth, prosperity and happiness. In this country of free government and equal rights, where agriculture enjoys the attention of the great masses of the people, how important it is to cultivate a taste for farming and farm labors, by elevating the business to a science, and by this means simplify the processes and increase the ratio of production. Your University, devoted in the main to the encouragement of all the industries of the age, will, I have no doubt, effect great good for oar people. Trusting that the occasion of the inauguration of the University will be one long to be remembered with interest, I subscribe myself, Truly and respectfully, yours, GREEN B. RAUM. The University anthem, written for the occasion by Dr. Gregory, and set to music by George F. Root, was then sung. i. We hail thee ! Great Fountain of learning and light; There's life in thy radiance, there's hope in thy might; We greet now thy dawning, but what singer's rhyme, Shall follow thy course down the ages of time ? O'er homes of the millions, o'er fields of rich toil, Thy science shall shine as the Sun shines on soil, And Learning and Labor—fit head for fit hand— Shall crown with twin glories our broad prairie land. And as generations, in the grand march of time, Shall fill the long ages with numbers sublime,
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