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Caption: Course Catalog - 1873-1874
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i6 Illinois Industrial University. Illinois, the first to ask, was among the first to accept the grant, and great public interest was excited in the question of the organization and location. Princely donations, in some cases of half a million of dollars, were tendered by several counties to secure the locating of the institution. In February, 1867, a law was passed fixing the locality, and defining the plan of the University, and in May, the Board of Trustees met at the University Building, donated by Champaign County, and finally determined the location. During the year much of the script was sold or located, necessary alterations were made in the buildings, apparatus and library were purchased, a faculty partly selected, and preparations made for active work. On March 2, 1868, the University was opened for students, and on the nth, formal inauguration exercises were held. In the Autumn of 1871 the University was opened for the instruction of female students, and now it offers its advantages to all classes of society, without regard to sex, sect or condition. LOCATION. The University is situated in the City of Urbana, adjoining the limits of the City of Champaign, in Champaign County, Illinois. It is one hundred and twenty-eight miles from Chicago on the Illinois Central Railroad. The Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway passes near the grounds. The county is one of the most beautiful prairie regions in the West. The two contiguous cities, constituting really only one community, have together a population of 10,000, well supplied with churches and schools, and affording boarding facilities for a large body of students. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. The domain occupied by the University (see map of the grounds, page 61) embraces about 623 acres, including stock farm, experimental farm, orchards, gardens, nurseries, forest plantations, arboretum, botanic garden, ornamental grounds and military parade ground. The old University Building (see page 61, A) now occupied partly by chemical laboratory, contains some eighty dormitories for students. It is 125 feet in length, and five stories in height, with a wing of 40 by 80 feet, four stories in height. The building was donated by the county. (See cut on last cover page.) The New University Building, (seepage 15, E,) is one of the most spacious and convenient to be found on this continent. It is 214 feet in length, with a depth on the wings of 122 feet. It is designed wholly for public use. The library wing isfire-proof,and contains five large halls devoted to the library and various cabinets and muPLAN OF NEW BUILDING.
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