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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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AGRICULTURAL LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS. Following the precedent of the Yale agricultural lectures of 1860, the following course of agricultural lectures and discussions were held at the Industrial University, in January of 1869. A number of gentlemen from Illinois, Missouri and Michigan, all eminent in their respective specialties, kindly consented to aid gratuitously in the inception of the first of what it is to be hoped will be a long series of farmer gatherings for mental instruction in the art and science of agriculture. Prof. BLISS and SANFORD HOWARD were unable to fill their appointments. With these exceptions (resulting from circumstances beyond the control of the gentlemen mentioned) the lecturers were all able to be present, and performed the parts assigned them. A large portion of these lectures -have been solicited for and published in the Missouri Agricultural Report, for 1868, with the following note by the Secretary, Dr. L. D. Morse: " Thus was inaugurated a new and probably important movement in Western agricultural education and improvement. Regarding it as an experiment, it may safely be recorded as resulting successfully. The lectures and discussions were attended by the students of the University, seventy or more in number, quite largely attended by the citizens of Champaign and vicinity, and there was a goodly number from various parts of the State. The lectures were, most of them, of an eminently practical character, and the discussions lively and interesting." [CIRCULAR.] ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY CHAMPAIGN, December 19, 1868. The first annual course of agricultural lectures and discussions, instituted by the Illinois Industrial University, in Champaign, commencing Tuesday,
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