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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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369 The following tabular statement exhibits the sums paid to higher institutions of learning by the states whose statistics have come to h a n d : States. To Colleges and Uni- To Agricultural and Polytechnic Schools. To Normal Schools. versities. Maine $34,000 and lands. Massachusetts. $344,297 73. $534,152. Khode Island.. Connecticut... $80,813 80. j large amounts. ) New York ) $40,000 yearly. \ $33,000 yearly. Pennsylvania.. $200,000. New J e r s e y . . . $32,750, $28,650 yearly. Marvland $6,000 annually. ( $198,000, ) $15,000. Virginia.. \ $15,060 yearly. \ Alabama . $300,000. Indiana... $8,000 yearly. j $100,000, [ Michigan. } $15,000 yearly. \ \ $7,303 76 yearly / Wisconsin. $30,798 50. I $27,594. f Kansas Minnesota , $27,594 84. $15,000 for one year. $30,798 50. $193,400 in 10 vears. $3,000 a year." $106,000 yearly. $12,000. $ll;000. 22,000 acres of land, $9,700 yearly. large land grants. 14,400 acres of land, $35,637. Thus far in her history, Illinois, as a state, has done very little for the promotion of this higher form of education. Her citizens have done generously, but as yet no statute graces her records, making a direct appropriation for the promotion of liberal and scientific education. Circumstances have heretofore prevented the founding of a distinct State University, and her liberality has found no channel tempting its exercise. But now the State has a University closely linked to its great industrial interests, and indissolubly bound to its own name and fame. The Industrial University belongs inalienably to t h e State. The world recognizes it as an institution of the State. Its prosperity will be both a blessing and an honor to t h e State; its failure would be both a curse and a shame. W i t h these considerations in view, the Trustees earnestly solicit, and confidently hope for, the favorable action of the Legislature. A failure to make the appropriations asked would be so disastrous that years could not repair the loss. The prompt development of the University will give early to the State the fruits of its work and afford its advantages to hundreds who will otherwise fail to receive them. J. M. GREGORY, Chairman of Committee. —**45
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