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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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202 pains will be spared to counsel the inexperienced, to admonish the careless, and to save the tempted. Especially will it be an object to establish and maintain that high toned, refined, and honorable public sentiment, which is at once the best safeguard against meanness and vice, and a constant inspiration to nobleness and virtue. L I T E R A R Y SOCIETIES. Two Literary societies have already been organized by the students—the Philomathean, and the Adelphic—and measures are being taken by each to secure libraries. DONATIONS. Acknowledgements are due to the following gentlemen for valuable donations to the University : L. Vandesyde, Calumet, 1 set reed mats. Emerson & Co., Rockford, 1 Jones' hand corn planter. Fuller, Palmer & Co., Chicago, 50 sash, for garden use. R, S. Wheatley, DuQuoin, 1 subsoil and garden plow. Barlow, Wood & Co., Quincy, 1 Vandiver's corn planter, with drill attachment. Furst & Bradley, Chicago, 1 walking cultivator. Clark & Utter, Rockford, 1 Gorham seeder and cultivator combined. Wm. Lintner, Decatur, 1 farm pump. J. J. Inglehart, Matteson, 1 Granger patent rotating harrow. Hibbard & Finch, Champaign, 1 two-horse cultivator, Frazier's patent, and 1 Kalamazoo three-horse clevis. Robert Douglas, Waukegan, collection evergreen seeds. S. Wilbur, Momence, duplicate collection flower seeds. D. M. Ferry & Co , Detroit, Mich., collection flower and garden seeds, also 1 package Beher wheat, imported from Egypt. T. W. Lachore, Blue Island, 2 wheel hoes. B. Dornblazer, Joliet, 1 Hoosier riding or walking cultivator, and 1 double shovel plough. J. C. Wilson, Crete, 1 patent rotary harrow. Phoenix, Bloomington, 100 rose bushes, and collection of flowering shrubs and bedding plants, Edgar Sanders, Chicago, 100 select bedding plants. P. S. Merevale, Chicago, 1 Allen's Weeder, 1 hexamer pronged hoe. Joseph Mainhofer, Ottawa, 1 Messenger, or Gopher cultivator, with extra shares. John Deere, Moline, 1 improved P. P. plow. 0« M. Railsback, Champaign, 300 select green-house and bedding plants. Jacob Strayer & Co., South Bend, Ind., 1 Statesman force feeding grain drill, grass sower and surveyor.
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