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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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OVX new seedling produced. The men of experience and thought, the skillful botanists in educational matters, read long ago in this plant of industrial education the prophecy of its future. Would-be sages said it was but a seed of the old plant, and that hence it would produce the same fruit as the plant from which it sprung. Prophets of evil foretold its^speedy withering, and did all in their power to prove their prognostications true. But those to whom the seed had been entrusted, dug broad and deep the ground which was to receive it, and the germ, in spite of adverse storms, has grown and prospered. Its first fruits have been produced, and the vote of the Illinois Legislature last winter, granting such magnificent appropriations to the Industrial University, was the verdict of impartial judgment pronouncing them good. But the fruit of a plant is also its seed ; if the present is the accomplishment of the past, it is also the prophecy of the future. If now we look upon the present of the University as we should, as a germ, a prophecy of its future and of the future of the education which it represents, their common strength and grandeur in years jet to come may better be imagined than described. —36
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