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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. HISTORY. The University of Illinois had its origin in a movement for the higher education of the industrial classes, begun in Illinois in 1851, and resulting in the congressional grant of lands for this purpose, made to the several states in 1862, and amounting in this state to 480,000 acres. The University was chartered in February, 1867, and opened to students in March, 1868. In addition to the endow•ment from the land grant, 8100,000 in bonds, 1,000 acres of land, and the building in which the institution was opened were donated by Champaign county. The state also has made large appropriations for fitting up and stocking the farms, for library and apparatus, and for buildings, including the large main building erected in 1872 and 1873, the mechanical building, the chemical laboratory, completed in 1878, a commodious military building, finished in 1890, and a natural science building in course of erection. In 1874 a fine art gallery was established. The whole number matriculated as students since the opening is 2,762. The number graduated from the several colleges, including the class of 1891, is 693. In 1871 the University was opened for women, on the same terms as to men. The University has a beautiful and healthful situation on the high grounds between the cities of Champaign and Urbana, within the corporate limits of the latter. It is one hundred and twentyeight miles south from Chicago, at the junction of the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Wabash railways. The country is a region of beautiful rolling prairies, with large belts of timber along the streams, and is one of the richest farming districts of the state. BUILDINGS AND &B0UND8. The land occupied by the University and its several departments embraces about 610 acres, including stock farm, experimental 11
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